《一磅照片》是对摄影媒体的意识流庆祝活动，汇集了亚历克·索斯(Alec Soth)在2018年至2021年之间创作的新作品。书中描绘了大量的主题——从佛教雕像到观鸟者，从日光浴者到亚伯拉罕·林肯的半身像——这本书反映了一种摄影的欲望，即把经验具体化，尤其是当它通过印刷图像来表现和回忆的时候。在这个折衷的序列中，有反复出现的图像、纪念品，以及日复一日围绕在我们周围的图像制造者。这是一段曲折、沉思的公路旅行，索斯的照片之后是他自己的笔记和反思。他写道:“如果这本书里的图片不是关于它们闪闪发光的表面，而是关于它们自己制作的过程。”它们是关于进入一个令人心醉神迷的特定世界，并在短暂的(光、时间)和物质(眼球、电影)之间建立联系。

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other countries. Artists were highly valued and richly compensated during this period, with many receiving lucrative commissions from pa...(展开全部)

The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters ...(展开全部)

People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear hol...(展开全部)

From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries. Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art", who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his cast...(展开全部)

The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England, reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the States, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century -- including Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky -- alongside stories of the tea...(展开全部)

From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their fi...(展开全部)