TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Famous Manuscripts - The fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. From "The Book of Kells" to Boccaccio's "Decameron" and from the "Vienna Genesis" to Dante's "Divine Comedy" - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to th...(展开全部)

莉迪亚·派恩，作家兼历史学家，专注科学史与物质文化史。获亚利桑那州立大学历史学和人类学学位，也是历史和哲学博士。曾赴南非、埃塞俄比亚、乌兹别克斯坦、伊朗和美国西南等地，参与实地调查和档案研究。在《时代》《大西洋》《鹦鹉螺》《公共领域评论》上发表多篇文章和论文。现任得州大学奥斯汀分校历史研究所访问研究员。

莉迪亚·派恩，作家兼历史学家，专注科学史与物质文化史。获亚利桑那州立大学历史学和人类学学位，也是历史和哲学博士。曾赴南非、埃塞俄比亚、乌兹别克斯坦、伊朗和美国西南等地，参与实地调查和档案研究。在《时代》《大西洋》《鹦鹉螺》《公共领域评论》上发表多篇文章和论文。现任得州大学奥斯汀分校历史研究所访问研究员。

莉迪亚·派恩，作家兼历史学家，专注科学史与物质文化史。获亚利桑那州立大学历史学和人类学学位，也是历史和哲学博士。曾赴南非、埃塞俄比亚、乌兹别克斯坦、伊朗和美国西南等地，参与实地调查和档案研究。在《时代》《大西洋》《鹦鹉螺》《公共领域评论》上发表多篇文章和论文。现任得州大学奥斯汀分校历史研究所访问研究员。

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 19...(展开全部)

The Louvre, originally the palace of King Philip II of France, reinvented itself as an art museum in 1793. Since then, it has grown in scope and renown and is today the most visited art museum in the world. "Louvre: 400 Masterpieces", an accessible book-object in a brand new format, is a unique survey of not only the collections - filled with such iconic works as the Venus de M...(展开全部)

In Vogue is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past Vogue editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, and photographers—from Edward Steichen, Toni Frissell, and Erwin Blumenfeld to Ir...(展开全部)

约书亚·哈默（Joshua Hammer），美国知名记者。1988年加入《新闻周刊》，先后在五大洲不同城市担任该杂志的分社社长，并长期为《GQ》《纽约客》《纽约时报》《国家地理》《大西洋月刊》等媒体撰稿，曾获包括美国国家杂志奖在内的多项新闻业大奖。从20世纪90年代起，哈默就开始 关注马里战乱，多次前往廷巴克图、巴马科等地采访，被誉为“对马里恐怖主义报道最深入的记者”。

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manu...(展开全部)