In this famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition -- a work long considered essential to understanding the evolution of 20th-century art -- Kandinsky explores the role of the line, point, and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.

In this famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition -- a work long considered essential to understanding the evolution of 20th-century art -- Kandinsky explores the role of the line, point, and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.

Champion Your Best Ideas!Every time you communicate, you're trying to do something, change something, or move someone to action. You're trying to make a point. But the only way to make a point is to have a point.

Champion Your Best Ideas!Every time you communicate, you're trying to do something, change something, or move someone to action. You're trying to make a point. But the only way to make a point is to have a point.

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the ...(展开全部)

安东尼•霍洛维茨 | Anthony Horowitz (1955— ) 英国知名侦探小说作家、编剧。 一九五五年四月，霍洛维茨出生于伦敦一个富裕的犹太家庭。童年时期虽生活优渥，但并不快乐。据他回忆，作为一个超重又内向的孩子，经常遭到校长体罚，在学校的经历也被他描述成“ 残酷的体验”。八岁时，他就意识到自己会成为一名作家。他说：“只有在写作时，我才会感到由衷的快乐。”母亲是霍洛维茨在文学世界的启蒙者，不仅引导他阅读大量书籍，甚至在他十三岁生日时送给他一副人类骸骨。他表示，这件礼物让他意识到“所有人的最终结局都不过是白骨一具”。其父因与时任英国首相哈罗德•威尔逊的政客圈子过从甚密，为了自保，将财产秘密转入瑞士的隐秘账户。结果在霍洛维茨二十二岁时，父亲因癌症去世，大额财产下落不明使霍洛维茨与母亲陷入困境，自此家境一落千丈。 一九七七年，霍洛维茨毕业于约克...(展开全部)

The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.

The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer themes an...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)