The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Visio...(展开全部)

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

An insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic manners, it remains the most definitive account of life among the Renaissance nobility.

Stewart Levine demonstrates the superiority of ''agreements for results'' versus ''agreements for protection'' and outlines ten principles for creating agreements that explicitly articulate desired outcomes and provide a roadmap to achieving them.

Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. "The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources including literary and other forms of public and private writing, especially medical texts, as well as painting, photography, and film, folklore an...(展开全部)

Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet as confused as any innocent by the vagaries of adult behavior, little Levi bears the ...(展开全部)