Sir Roberto Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter, Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos . As Rannaldini, Tristan, his charismatic French director, a volatile cast and bolshy French...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。

Le travail de l'oeuvre Machiavel by Claude Lefort is more than a secondary source on the thought of Machiavelli. On the one hand, it is a very important point in the development of his thought. An understanding of Lefort's interpretation of Machiavelli is essential for understanding the theory of democracy and totalitarianism that he will develop in his later work. On the other...(展开全部)

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of our time and always strove to interrogate receiv...(展开全部)

This study discusses basic questions about Rubens's art and life, studies two of his bacchic paintings in detail and describes him in a less easy and more identifiably modern predicament.

Reconsiders the concensus on Rubens as a successful, prolific, and facile court painter who is dwarfed by the achievements of his near-contemporary Rembrandt. This book scrutinizes the assumptions upon which this image is built, and discovers an artist involved with ambivalence and ambiguity.