Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(展开全部)

As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings...(展开全部)

As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings...(展开全部)

A new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in colour. <br />Traces the life and career of the seventeenth-century painter, shows all of his works, and offers a fresh analysis of each painting.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America's most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor" to his denunciation of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, Galbraith consistently challenged "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined). He did so as a witty commentator on America's political follies and as a versa...(展开全部)

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and bu...(展开全部)

编者：伯特斯坦（Leon Botstein，1946－)，美国指挥家，Bard学院校长，现任美国国家交响乐团和耶路撒冷交响乐团首席指挥兼艺术总监，Bard音乐节的艺术总监，欧洲中央大学董事长。 编者：杨燕迪（1963-），音乐学家、音乐评论家、音乐翻译家，现任上海音乐学院副院长、教授。 译者：张慧（1970-），女，青岛大学公共外语教学部教师，硕士，主要研究方向：语言学及翻译学。

编者：伯特斯坦（Leon Botstein，1946－)，美国指挥家，Bard学院校长，现任美国国家交响乐团和耶路撒冷交响乐团首席指挥兼艺术总监，Bard音乐节的艺术总监，欧洲中央大学董事长。 编者：杨燕迪（1963-），音乐学家、音乐评论家、音乐翻译家，现任上海音乐学院副院长、教授。 译者：张慧（1970-），女，青岛大学公共外语教学部教师，硕士，主要研究方向：语言学及翻译学。

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and tex...(展开全部)