《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》的内容分“表征”和“干预”两个部分。“表征”部分探讨了科学实在论问题，分析了库恩、费耶阿本德、拉卡托斯、普特南、范·弗拉森等人的观点，“干预’部分财首次对实验科学进行了深入研究，表明实验具有独立干理论的生命，从而给出了实在论之争的新方向。作者论证，如果我们能够利用理论概念通过实验成功地干预世界，那么这些理论概念就是实在的。他的实体实在论或实验实在论已成为科学实在论的要要流派之一。 《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》视角独辟蹊径，风格清晰生动，内容深入浅出，堪称科学哲学界的又地范式转移之作。《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》适合理工科师生以及科技哲学、科技史和科学社会学等领域的研究者参阅。

When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp presents a ...(展开全部)

Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western n...(展开全部)

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•埃尔金斯 (James Elkins), 美国著名艺术史家、理论家和批评家。目前是芝加哥艺术学院E.C. 查德伯恩(E.C. Chadbourne)名誉教授、艺术史系主任。1977年在康奈尔大学取得学士学位。1983年在芝加哥大学取得绘画专业和艺术史专业双硕士学位，并于1989年从同一所大学取得艺术史博士学位。埃尔金斯的多部著作曾被译为中文、韩语、德语、俄语、意大利语、捷克语等多国语言。他的研究兴趣广泛，包括艺术图像、科学图像和自然图像的理论和历史、绘画、摄影理论、艺术史编纂学，以及全球艺术史等。

What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance....(展开全部)

Christina Brodie draws on her extensive experience as a botanical art teacher in compiling this complete course on drawing and painting plants. Clear step-by-step instructions show how to accurately render a wide range of plants and plant parts -- from flowers, fruits, and seeds through leaves, stems, bark, and roots to fungi, ferns, mosses, and seaweeds. Christina Brodie's con...(展开全部)

"In an age when art history is too much dominated by proponents of theoretical, non-visual approaches to the works of art, really good examples of visual approaches are in short supply, and welcome. "The Landscape Painting of China" is a valuable visual/art-historical treatment of early Chinese painting, through the mid-seventeenth century and the Ming dynasty."--James Cahill, ...(展开全部)

Providing a fresh approach to the theory of design, Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process synthesizes planning, design and ecology and shows a new view of where design can develop. The book brings together the work and subject areas of a range of disciplines including psychologists, philosophers, geologists, ecologists, cultural geographers, foresters, urban planners and l...(展开全部)