In December 2008 the Groninger Museum will present the largest retrospective of the work of John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) that has ever been organized. Many splendid works come from Australia, Taiwan and Canada, and have not previously been on show in Europe. The artist was born in Rome to British parents but the family soon moved to London. When still young, he assisted ...(展开全部)

John William Waterhouse is among the most popular Victorian artists, and many of his paintings, such as The Lady of Shalott, Hylas and the Nymphs and Ophelia, have become icons of femininity recognized the world over. With their compelling composition, glowing colour and Impressionist-inflected technique, these paintings are admired for their beauty, yet at the same time they h...(展开全部)

This edition of Fashion Magazine is devoted solely to the work of French photographer Lise Sarfati. In her portraiture, Sarfati dramatizes the intensities of fashionably clad adolescence in the insolently sensual creatures she encounters on the roads of America. Couching their lightly worn street elegance in moody sobriety, Sarfati presses pause" on the activities in which her ...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

本书分为婴儿篇（0~1岁）和幼儿篇（1~3岁），遴选安潇为两个女儿设计的174个早教游戏笔记。婴儿篇（0~1岁）按照月龄，为从新生儿到一岁的每个阶段的宝宝设计了相应月龄的游戏；幼儿篇则分为感官训练、身体技能、数学与秩序、科学与自然、生活实践、语言发展、美术与创意7个部分，以便家长们按照所需搜寻游戏。每一款游戏，书中都交代了需要准备的材料和执行的方法，以及所对应的早教学习内容，并附上了Suki和Sula的游戏表现以作参考，同时也对游戏安全或者不同的游戏形式给出了提示。本书为平日照顾陪伴婴幼儿的父母、（外）祖父母们及看护人提供了大量易于掌握的亲子游戏，既可帮助婴幼儿开发各种重要的技能，又可以为家庭带来无穷的乐趣。

本书分为婴儿篇（0~1岁）和幼儿篇（1~3岁），遴选安潇为两个女儿设计的174个早教游戏笔记。婴儿篇（0~1岁）按照月龄，为从新生儿到一岁的每个阶段的宝宝设计了相应月龄的游戏；幼儿篇则分为感官训练、身体技能、数学与秩序、科学与自然、生活实践、语言发展、美术与创意7个部分，以便家长们按照所需搜寻游戏。每一款游戏，书中都交代了需要准备的材料和执行的方法，以及所对应的早教学习内容，并附上了Suki和Sula的游戏表现以作参考，同时也对游戏安全或者不同的游戏形式给出了提示。本书为平日照顾陪伴婴幼儿的父母、（外）祖父母们及看护人提供了大量易于掌握的亲子游戏，既可帮助婴幼儿开发各种重要的技能，又可以为家庭带来无穷的乐趣。

The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832) is a classic of nineteenth-century English jurisprudence, a subject on which Austin had a profound impact. His book is primarily concerned with a meticulous explanation of most of the core concepts of his legal philosophy, including his conception of law, his separation of law and morality, and his theory of sovereignty. Almost a ...(展开全部)

In Impossibility, John D. Barrow--one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers--argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside...(展开全部)

Barrow, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex, has written a very engaging and even playful book. He attempts to show how certain "laws" governing "Nature" help us to separate the possible from the impossible....Barrow's book enjoyable, informative, and thought provoking.

At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as knowers? By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows how all objective knowledge ...(展开全部)