《花之语》（Language of Flowers），如凯特·格林纳威作品一贯的风格，清新，优雅，浪漫。 配以美轮美奂的插图，从A到Z，将200余种花卉的花语一一写出。闲暇时光，捧来翻阅一番，当赏心悦目。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to ...(展开全部)

在中国人的世界里，花是一种文化象征。不同的花儿，有着哪些人文典故？又各自表达着怎样的人文意蕴？ 中国人的生活离不开关好的花卉。在千百年来的传统风俗中，有哪些与花有关的奇特缘分呢？ …… 本书一一向你解答了这些问题。本书让你从花的缤纷中体会一种文化的芬芳优雅……

简介：[如果时间像水一样的流逝，我自己却未曾改变，那存在又有何意义？]

简介：[如果时间像水一样的流逝，我自己却未曾改变，那存在又有何意义？]

夏尔·波德莱尔（Charles Baudelair, 1821-1867），法国诗人。作品有诗集《恶之花》和散文诗集《巴黎的忧郁》，另写有大量文学和美学论文。他被认为是使欧洲人的经验方式和写作方式发生重大变革的作家，他的美学理论在诗歌和艺术史上是一个重大转折点，是现代主义各流派灵感与理论的不尽泉源。

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and...(展开全部)

Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other...(展开全部)

We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the s...(展开全部)

Review by Ann Copeland: "Patti Smith's foreword, "A Final Flower," is a poetic tribute to the late photographer whose recent retrospective exhibition sparked a national legal debate over censorship in the arts. Smith's observation that Mapplethorpe embraced "the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within," and in these photographs "found it was as easy t...(展开全部)