Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? The ...(展开全部)

This masterly collection of texts interrogates the raging academic question, What is art history? Editor Preziosi, who directs ground-breaking critical studies of art history and museology, provides introductions to 35 challenging readings gathered in nine chapters. This plethora of alternatives is curiously complicated, even obfuscating. Covered here are the most current and r...(展开全部)

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions betw...(展开全部)

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

In their professional lives courtroom lawyers must do these two things well: speak persuasively and write persuasively. In this noteworthy book, two of the most noted legal writers of our day Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner systematically present every important idea about judicial persuasion in a fresh, entertaining way. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judge...(展开全部)

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve. In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as...(展开全部)

本书作者是《金钱心理学》和《一如既往》的畅销书作者，本书将教你如何驾驭金钱的力量，过上更幸福的生活。 我们大多数人都不懂得如何花钱。我们追逐那些令他人倾心却又漠然置之的东西。或者，我们无休止地攒钱，却不敢花钱购买那些真正能改善生活的东西。我们混淆了欣赏与嫉妒、安逸与豪奢、功利与地位。 《花钱的艺术》并非提供预算、技巧或一刀切的解决方案。它让你理解你与金钱的关系如何影响你的决策，以及如何重塑这种关系，让金钱为你服务。 摩根·豪塞尔的研究已经帮助数百万人重新思考他们的赚钱、储蓄和投资方式。现在，他将注意力转向了等式的另一边：如何花钱。他以深刻的洞察力和温暖的笔触，阐述了为什么投资有价值的回报是内心的平静，为什么预期比收入更重要，以及为什么理财与电子表格的关系不如自我认知重要。 本书并非关于致富，而是关于如何大限度地利用你已有的财富，并学会去追求值得追求的...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, lessons on harnessing the power of money to live a happier life Most of us don’t know how to spend money. We chase things that impress others but leave us cold. Or we save endlessly, afraid to spend on what would actually make life better. We confuse admiration with envy, comfort with excess, and status wi...(展开全部)