毛里齐奥·维罗利（Maurizio Viroli），1952年生于弗利，毕业于博洛尼亚大学哲学系，1985年获佛罗伦萨欧洲大学学院的社会政治科学博士学位，曾执教于乔治顿大学的新社会研究学院和比萨高等师范学院，现为普林斯顿大学政治学教授。其著作包括：Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Well-Ordered Society（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1988），From Politics to Reason of State：The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics1250-1600（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1992），For Love of Co...(展开全部)

毛里齐奥·维罗利（Maurizio Viroli），1952年生于弗利，毕业于博洛尼亚大学哲学系，1985年获佛罗伦萨欧洲大学学院的社会政治科学博士学位，曾执教于乔治顿大学的新社会研究学院和比萨高等师范学院，现为普林斯顿大学政治学教授。其著作包括：Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Well-Ordered Society（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1988），From Politics to Reason of State：The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics1250-1600（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1992），For Love of Co...(展开全部)

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist. When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creati...(展开全部)

A Certain Smile, Francoise Sagan's second book, also was a bestseller. It told about a student's love affair with a middle-aged man. Like Cécile, she is slightly bored of life, but she suddenly realizes that "some day I would die, that my hand would no longer touch the chromium rim, nor would the sun shine in my eyes." Another variation of the formula was presented in Aimez-vou...(展开全部)

A Certain Smile, Francoise Sagan's second book, also was a bestseller. It told about a student's love affair with a middle-aged man. Like Cécile, she is slightly bored of life, but she suddenly realizes that "some day I would die, that my hand would no longer touch the chromium rim, nor would the sun shine in my eyes." Another variation of the formula was presented in Aimez-vou...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)

畿米，台湾文化大学美术系设计组毕业，曾在广告公司担任美术指导12年。 畿米住在台北，在家工作，为报纸、杂志、各种出版品提供图画，目前全心投入自己喜欢的绘本创作。1998年开始绘本创作，1999年以《向左走·向右走》一举成名，掀起港台绘本热潮。目前有多本广受欢迎的作品，卖出美、德、法、希腊、日、韩等多种版本。 作品：1998年《森林里的秘密》、《微笑的鱼》；1999年《向左走·向右走》、《月亮忘记了》、《听畿米唱歌》；2000年《黑白异境》、《森林唱游》、《我的心中每天开一朵花》；2001年《地下铁》、《照相本子》。

The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli's handbook on power—how to get it and how to keep it—has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt. Its author, born to an established middle-class family, was no prince himself. Machiavelli (14691527) worked as a courtier and diplomat for the Republic of Floren...(展开全部)