Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh’s most fascinating murder mysteries. When the pesky Anna Bünz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing still practised there, she quickly antagonizes the villagers. But Mrs Bünz is not the only source of friction – two of the other enthusiasts are...(展开全部)

Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh’s most fascinating murder mysteries. When the pesky Anna Bünz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing still practised there, she quickly antagonizes the villagers. But Mrs Bünz is not the only source of friction – two of the other enthusiasts are...(展开全部)

Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient.How to Make Collaboration Work shows how collaboration can become a joy rather than a chore-a kind of chemical reaction that releases energy than it consumes.

Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient.How to Make Collaboration Work shows how collaboration can become a joy rather than a chore-a kind of chemical reaction that releases energy than it consumes.

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, an...(展开全部)

罗伯特・卡帕，原名安得烈・弗里德曼，匈牙利人，有史以来最伟大的战地摄影家。成名于西班牙国内战争时期，以表现一个战士中弹将要倒下的照片震动当时的摄影界，这幅作品也成为战争摄影的不朽之作。二战期间，他采访了中国，以及非洲、欧洲等国家的许多重大战役，拍摄了不少极为精彩的照片，其中尢以诺曼底登陆最为令人难忘。1947年，他与摄影家西摩和布勒松在纽约组成了玛农图片社，这是第一人国际性的自由摄影家联合机构，也由此引发了摄影业的一场革命。 1954年，他志愿来到越南战场，不幸误踏地雷身亡，才算为自己的传奇一生画上了句号。

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, an...(展开全部)

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(展开全部)

Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most of the known world, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon? Credited by some with ...(展开全部)

作者简介 简•格拉芙，英国当代著名指挥家、古典音乐学者。早年毕业于牛津大学。在1975年的维克斯福德音乐节上，她以自己编定的卡瓦利（Cavalli）的歌剧《埃力忒莉娅》（L ʼEritrea）完成了职业生涯的首演，这也是创作于17世纪的该剧在当代的首次复排演出。 1981年至1985年，她出任格林德伯恩巡回歌剧团的音乐总监，带领剧团上演了《后宫诱逃》《伊德梅尼欧》《唐•乔万尼》及《女人皆如此》等多部莫扎特的歌剧作品；1984年至1991年，出任伦敦莫扎特演奏家乐团艺术总监；2009年至2016年，在皇家音乐学院任歌剧系主任，至今仍在此任教，同时也在牛津大学任客座教授。简•格拉芙指挥过英国多个重要的交响乐团和室内乐团，也曾在欧陆、美国、亚洲和澳洲的各大乐团职棒。在最近几个音乐季当中，她和纽约爱乐乐团、克利夫兰交响乐团、费城交响乐团、班贝格交响乐团等团体...(展开全部)