IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNTAINS is a new collection of sublime portraits, landscapes, and street photography taken by Steve McCurry over the last 27 years. Children and shepherds, warriors and laborers are presented alongside striking views of sandstone cities, mountainous landscapes, and ancient temples. Evocative and timeless, these lyrical images capture the enduring spirit, gran...(展开全部)

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

伊莎贝拉‧博德（1831-1904），出身于英国西部的牧师家庭，青少年时饱受脊背病痛折磨，依照医嘱赴美加地区旅行。四十岁时，她前往澳洲旅行，继而造访夏威夷。次年她来到落基山，她描述落基山绝美风光的书信集结成这本《山旅书札》。之后她前往日本的北海道及马来半岛的土著区，完成《日本僻径》和《金色的半岛居民》。丈夫去世后，博德来到伊朗沙漠、库尔德斯坦高地、朝鲜半岛，以及中国内陆等偏远地区旅行。七十岁那年，她完成了最后一次旅行，骑着苏丹王送她的一匹黑牡马造访摩洛哥。

二十多年来，辛西娅·赖兰特（Cynthia Rylant）在阿巴拉契亚山脉的童年往事一直是读者的最爱。大山里的成长历程经赖兰特简朴而抒情的文笔描绘，再配上黛安娜·古德（Diane Goode）的插图，显得优美而柔和。本书曾获得凯迪克荣誉奖（Caldecott Honor Medal）。为庆祝二十周年出版纪念，新书将用铜色纪念带装饰。 Book Description For twenty years, Cynthia Rylant's story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an enduring favorite. Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beauti...(展开全部)

Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the for...(展开全部)

Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the for...(展开全部)

The history of art from the early nineteenth century onward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In "Art and Crisis", first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the aesthetic disjunctures of modern art signify more than matters of style and poi...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, ...(展开全部)