How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach to art in buildings, and about how that connects with advances in technique and efficiency. This pioneering and handsomely illustr...(展开全部)

杰克·弗莱姆，纽约城市大学荣誉教授，研究方向为19～20世纪的艺术史。他曾撰写大量书籍和艺术评论，并广泛地在世界各地的博物馆和大学举办艺术史方面的讲座。他的著作Matisse：The Manand HisArt，1869—1918荣获1986年普利策奖人物传记类的提名。1984年至1992年，他担任《华尔街日报》艺术评论员。

From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nation's history. The decade of the 1790s has been called the “age of passion.” Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republ...(展开全部)

约翰·菲尔林（John Ferling），西佐治亚大学荣休历史教授，著有多部关于美国革命的历史作品，以及获奖作品《跃入黑暗》（A Leap in the Dark），以及《点燃世界》（Setting the World Ablaze）。 译者： 王晓平、赵燕、黑黟，上海第二工业大学教师，英语语言文学学科金海翻译社成员。

刘广京（1921年－2006年9月28日），中央研究院院士，经济史学家。 国立西南联合大学肄业，1956年获哈佛大学博士学位，师从费正清，於加州大学戴维斯分校执教。刘广京曾修正费正清解释中国近代史的「刺激／反应」说，并证明中国买办和西方资本主义接触是有竞争力的。韦慕庭称刘广京是「学者中的学者」。2006年9月28日在美国加州戴维斯家中辞世。 　　著有《英美航运势力在华的竞争》，又与陈永发、张玉法主编「最近两百年中国史」三部曲之「晚清篇」（另二部是「中国共产革命七十年」、「中华民国史稿」），惜至今仍未出版。

Ever since the two ancient nations of India and China established modern states in the mid-20th century, they have been locked in a complex rivalry ranging across the South Asian region. Garver offers a scrupulous examination of the two countries' actions and policy decisions over the past fifty years. He has interviewed many of the key figures who have shaped their diplomatic ...(展开全部)

刘广京（1921年－2006年9月28日），中央研究院院士，经济史学家。 国立西南联合大学肄业，1956年获哈佛大学博士学位，师从费正清，於加州大学戴维斯分校执教。刘广京曾修正费正清解释中国近代史的「刺激／反应」说，并证明中国买办和西方资本主义接触是有竞争力的。韦慕庭称刘广京是「学者中的学者」。2006年9月28日在美国加州戴维斯家中辞世。 　　著有《英美航运势力在华的竞争》，又与陈永发、张玉法主编「最近两百年中国史」三部曲之「晚清篇」（另二部是「中国共产革命七十年」、「中华民国史稿」），惜至今仍未出版。

The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes -- primarily in caravans of bullock-carts -- to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in histo...(展开全部)

The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality. Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, ...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, and Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows ei...(展开全部)