Two important essays on Étienne-Jules Marey published for the first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving air and smoke. Featuring more than one hundred and fifty photographs and images, Movements of Air reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey—images captured between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smok...(展开全部)

Two important essays on Étienne-Jules Marey published for the first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving air and smoke. Featuring more than one hundred and fifty photographs and images, Movements of Air reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey—images captured between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smok...(展开全部)

According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in West Flanders. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary’s vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the pass...(展开全部)

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 An Essential Primer on Understanding Photography by One of theWorld's Most Influential Photographers "In my roughly twenty years of writing about photography, I don't thinkI've come across a book that has implied so much with so few words, a bookthat raises so many important questions with so little fanfare and withsuch precision."-James Kaufmann, Photographer's Forum...(展开全部)

Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union is the culmination of Jonas Bendiksen’s fascinating seven-year photographic journey through unrecognized countries, enclaves, and isolated communi­ties. For decades, these outlying republics were held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet Empire. When the USSR dissolved, in 1991, ...(展开全部)

The Unseen Eye presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals. Amassed ov...(展开全部)

The Unseen Eye presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals. Amassed ov...(展开全部)

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)