Discusses the dichotomy of artistic thought that led to the evolution of modern painting, as perceived by the new art's Salon des Refuses and the Paris art world of 1863

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces t...(展开全部)

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces th...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)

In my view, this is art history at its best: close to the sources and empirical in the sense of transformative encounters whose implications are at once explained and experienced. Robin Mackay's translation from the French is impressive in its effort to convey both dimensions, all the better to support what is perhaps the key lesson of the book: That the modern event work far e...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)

[英]斯图尔特•埃尔登，英国华威大学政治理论和地理学教授，撰写出版了《恐怖和领土：主权的空间界限 》等多部关于地理学和政治学的作品。

[英]斯图尔特•埃尔登，英国华威大学政治理论和地理学教授，撰写出版了《恐怖和领土：主权的空间界限 》等多部关于地理学和政治学的作品。