by momojon Your book is more based on suppositions and improvised conclusions than on truth. - Karl Lagerfeld 别得罪“恺撒”，因为你极有可能会惹祸上身。日前Karl Lagerfeld一纸诉状递交巴黎法院，控告Alicia Drake的新书《The Beautiful Fall: Fashion,Genius,and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris》侵犯其隐私，导致后者花费5年心血写就的时尚“野史”惨遭被逐出法国的厄运。 该书聚焦1970年代的巴黎时尚圈，因为揭露了两位传奇设计师Yves Saint Laurent和Karl Lagerfeld之间源远流长的职场／情场竞争而倍受瞩目。只可惜Drake在书中毫不客气...(展开全部)

A collection of photographs from Yves Saint Laurent’s debut collection, in 1962. Lots of wonderful behind-the-scenes images. This small hardcover has become quite scarce.

In the third book in the trilogy that includes Reduction and Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. Turning explicitly to hermeneutical dimensions of the debate, Marion masterfully draws together issues emerging from his close reading of Descartes and Pa...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 阿利斯泰尔·霍恩，英国著名法国史专家，曾获得沃尔夫森历史奖、霍桑顿文学奖和法国荣誉军团勋章。主要著作有《巴黎的七个时代》《凡尔登战役：荣耀的代价，1916》等。 ◎译者简介 王宸，北京大学历史学系博士，现任职于博物馆。专业方向为环境史、医疗社会史，热爱各种边缘人边缘事的历史。参与翻译《俄罗斯与拿破仑的决战：鏖战欧罗巴1807—1814》《企鹅欧洲史6：追逐荣耀》《现代医学小史》《致命敌人：为下一次大流行病做准备》等。 田方舟，英国格拉斯哥大学硕士，现任职于教育部中外语言交流合作中心，历史、翻译爱好者。

From Alistair Horne's grand trilogy on French history-two magisterial works now back in print In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms ...(展开全部)

This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh ne...(展开全部)

Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed the lives of 18,000 people in Paris alone, was a watershed in the history of medicine: In France, it shook the complacency of a med...(展开全部)

When Lawrence Fox's teacher announces that students will be presenting things they collect at show-and-tell, Lawrence panics. All of his classmates have impressive collections: coins, combs, marbles…but Lawrence doesn’t have anything to share. Luckily, Papa knows where to find something magical: the deep, dark woods. Lawrence is scared at first, but as he grows more comfortable...(展开全部)

Out of a background of war, occupation and the legacies of Japan's post-defeat politics there emerged a dissentient group of avant-garde filmmakers who created a counter-cinema that addressed a newly constituted, politically conscious audience. While there was no formal manifesto for this movement and the various key filmmakers of the period (Oshima Nagisa, Imamura Shohei, Yosh...(展开全部)

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.