西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama）是一位英国作家、历史学家。1966年，他以“超一等”的成绩毕业于剑桥大学基督学院。 20世纪60年代和70年代沙玛曾先后任教于剑桥大学和牛津大学。在此期间，他完成了他的第一本书《爱国者和解放者》（沃夫森历史奖获奖作品）。1980年，沙玛赴美国，任教于哈佛大学。期间，他完成了《财富的困窘》（《纽约时报》年度最佳图书奖获奖作品）、《市民：法国大革命编年史》（《纽约时报》年度最佳图书奖获奖作品、《约克郡邮报》图书奖）等著作。1995年，沙玛受邀成为《纽约客》杂志的艺术批评家，并转至哥伦比亚大学任历史与艺术史教授。此后他又接连出版了像《风景与记忆》（莱昂内尔·特里林图书奖、W.H.史密斯文学奖获奖作品）、《伦勃朗的眼睛》、《乱世交汇：英国、奴隶与美国革命》（国家书评人协会奖非虚构类优胜作品）这样在学术和商业上均取得成功的...(展开全部)

"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headl...(展开全部)

'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your...(展开全部)

Turning our conventional understanding of power on its head, world-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and national bestselling author Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how true power comes from within. What we seek, we already have.

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideologi...(展开全部)

The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful Meetings provides powerful tools that the business analyst can use to negotiate through the myriad of meetings, informal work sessions, and formal workshops that are necessary to develop business requirements.

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jeffe...(展开全部)

The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful Meetings provides powerful tools that the business analyst can use to negotiate through the myriad of meetings, informal work sessions, and formal workshops that are necessary to develop business requirements.

In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a close up and personal view of almost 50 years in the business of art. He engagingly explains art's three kinds of value: commercial; social; and what he terms its essential value - the range of responses to art that we as individuals have...(展开全部)

弗吉尼娅•波斯特莱尔（Virginia Postrel），学者，文化评论家，彭博资讯专栏作家，《华尔街日报》、《大西洋月刊》、《纽约时报》、《福布斯》等多家知名媒体的特约撰稿人，文风以幽默、深刻见长。波斯特莱尔曾作为Ted演讲嘉宾，也为纽约视觉艺术学院进行有关魅力的短期培训。现居洛杉矶。