'If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance...to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained'. Guillaume de Lorris's own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair gives no indication of the eventual scale and scope of the work, which became the most popular and influential of all medie...(展开全部)

In Einstein in Love , Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger, self-styled bohemian, poet, violinist, and cocky, charismatic genius who left personal and professional chaos in his wake. Drawing up...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·奥弗比，美国知名科普作家，《纽约时报》科学编辑，《时代》、《纽约时代杂志》科学作家，毕业于美国麻省理工学院物理系。他的第一本书《环宇孤心》曾入围“美国国家书评人奖”和“《洛杉矶时报》科学图书奖”，并获得“美国物理科学学会作品奖”。本书是奥弗比的最新力作。

Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.

Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.

丹尼斯·奥弗比，美国知名科普作家，《纽约时报》科学编辑，《时代》、《纽约时代杂志》科学作家，毕业于美国麻省理工学院物理系。他的第一本书《环宇孤心》曾入围“美国国家书评人奖”和“《洛杉矶时报》科学图书奖”，并获得“美国物理科学学会作品奖”。本书是奥弗比的最新力作。

In Einstein in Love , Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger, self-styled bohemian, poet, violinist, and cocky, charismatic genius who left personal and professional chaos in his wake. Drawing up...(展开全部)

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love.

林·亨特是繼娜塔莉·澤蒙·戴維斯後，新文化史的掌旗者。亨特在本書中，以「家庭羅曼史」指稱集體且無意識的家庭秩序圖像，這種家庭秩序的圖像構成了法國大革命政治理念的基調。亨特藉著討論家庭成員間的關係，闡述這種政治理念；並以家國互喻的方式，陳述十八世紀的法國人視其統治者為父，視其國為家的想法。因此，家庭成員的論述便構成了本書的敘事結構。

This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order un...(展开全部)