Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we breathe. Theorists such as Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the choreographer Rudolf Laban drew on the science of ...(展开全部)

From the New York Times best-selling author behind The Quiet Book comes a mindful contemplation on the many ways nature affects our everyday lives, even when we’re stuck inside. Perfect for fans of Joyce Sidman and Julie Fogliano, Outside In reminds emerging readers of the ways nature creates and touches our lives in homes, apartments, and cars, and is the perfect homeschooling...(展开全部)

Me? A Leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion - between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the hook, and could go off on my own again - while still tou...(展开全部)

Me? A Leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion - between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the hook, and could go off on my own again - while still tou...(展开全部)

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, "Berlin Childhood around 1900" remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his 'large-scale defeats'. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered 'final version' that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignette...(展开全部)

In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translati+C100on Award. A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge GuillA(c)n's luminous poetry, marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision, deserves to be more widely known to readers of English. GuillA(c)n was born in Valladolid, Old Castile. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was arrested and...(展开全部)

本杰明·艾尔曼 Benjamin A. Elman, 1946年出生于德国慕尼黑，1980年获美国宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位，先后担任加州大学洛杉矶分校副教授、教授（1986—2001）以及普林斯顿大学东亚系和历史系双聘教授（2002-）。主要从事中国文明史、清史和 中国思想史的研究，研究领域包括中国思想文化史（1000-1900）、中国科学史（1600—1930）、帝制晚期中国教育史以及中日文化史（1600-1850）。著作主要有《从理学到朴学——中华帝国晚期思想与社会变化面面观》（1984）、《经学、政治和宗族——中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（1990）和《晚期中华帝国科举文化史》（2000）。

Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a shortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk more effectively? These questions are at the center of all financial crises, includ...(展开全部)

Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a shortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk more effectively? These questions are at the center of all financial crises, includ...(展开全部)