While the classically inspired 'Grecian' gown designed by Madame Alix Gres is widely recognized and admired, little else of the brilliant couturier's life or work has received close attention. This book, by far the most detailed study yet published on this influential fashion designer, carefully analyzes Madame Gres' innovative construction techniques and connects her designs t...(展开全部)

罗宾·库克毕业于哥伦比亚大学医学院，并在哈佛大学完成了他的医学培训。 他是位医生，也是位成功的作家，以把医学知识引入到恐怖小说中而闻名，被为医学惊悚小说的创始人。 他一直在自己所开创的小说领域中创造着奇迹：到目前为止已经有12部作品荣登《纽约时报》最畅销图书榜。 罗宾·库克曾说，他选择写恐怖悬疑小说的原因是：这种形式可以让读者对不太了解的医药、考古学知识产生兴趣。在他看来，写小说实际上是在教授人们更多的知识。

A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, this is a comprehensive survey of the genre over the last century. The book also offers an overview of the development of fashion, as seen through the eyes of the greatest illustrators of the day. Early in the century fashion illustration reflected new, liberating currents in art and culture, such as the exoticism of the Ballets Russes, wh...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•J. 埃利斯（Joseph J. Ellis） 美国著名历史学家和畅销书作家，撰写了一系列脍炙人口的美国建国史作品。他的《杰斐逊传：美国的斯芬克斯》和《奠基者：独立战争那一代》分别荣获美国国家图书奖和美国普利策历史奖。 埃利斯早年就读于威廉玛丽学院和耶鲁大学。他曾在美国军中服役并在西点军校任教，军衔达到陆军上尉。埃利斯目前执教于马萨诸塞大学。 埃利斯主要研究美国殖民地和建国时代的历史，是该领域的权威学者和历史普及作家，为广大历史读者打开了了解美国建国史的窗口。《福布斯》杂志曾盛赞埃利斯的读者声望，称他是“历史学家中的罗杰•费德勒”。

This book documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students. The last hundred or so years bore witness to the transformation of womens fashion. The restrictive corsetry of the early twentieth cen...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

C'est l'histoire d'une femme mal mariée, de son médiocre époux, de ses amants égoïstes et vains, de ses rêves, de ses chimères, de sa mort. C'est l'histoire d'une province étroite, dévote et bourgeoise. C'est, aussi, l'histoire du roman français. Rien, dans ce tableau, n'avait de quoi choquer la société du Second Empire. Mais, inexorable comme une tragédie, flamboyant comme un ...(展开全部)

This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, ...(展开全部)

Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent re...(展开全部)

Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent re...(展开全部)