David Hobbs looks at the post-World War II fortunes of the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy--its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of ignorant politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Despite prophecies that nuclear weapons would make ...(展开全部)

著者： 大卫·霍布斯（David Hobbs），作者大卫·霍布斯在英国*家海军服役了33年，并担任舰队空军博物馆馆长，后来成为一名海军航空记者和作家。他另著有多部作品，包括近期的《海军航空世纪》（A Century of Carrier Aviation）等。 译者： 张宇翔，留学电子博士，主要兴趣为一战至二战期间的海军发展和战史。作品包括描述日德兰海战的《巨人的对决》，以及在其他刊物上发表的若干文章。

著者： 大卫·霍布斯（David Hobbs），作者大卫·霍布斯在英国*家海军服役了33年，并担任舰队空军博物馆馆长，后来成为一名海军航空记者和作家。他另著有多部作品，包括近期的《海军航空世纪》（A Century of Carrier Aviation）等。 译者： 张宇翔，留学电子博士，主要兴趣为一战至二战期间的海军发展和战史。作品包括描述日德兰海战的《巨人的对决》，以及在其他刊物上发表的若干文章。

• Provides the reader a nuanced understanding of rural France that goes beyond the static, picture postcard vision of the French countryside. • Brings together memoirs, television, magazines, film, and photographic sources. • Features insert of color photography of the French countryside. At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacit...(展开全部)

• Provides the reader a nuanced understanding of rural France that goes beyond the static, picture postcard vision of the French countryside. • Brings together memoirs, television, magazines, film, and photographic sources. • Features insert of color photography of the French countryside. At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacit...(展开全部)

约翰•韦恩（John Wain，1925—1994），英国小说家、评论家、诗人。1946年毕业于牛津约翰学院，1947—1955年在里丁大学任英国文学讲师，后成为专业作家，从事文学创作。1953年其成名作《每况愈下》成功塑造了一个愤怒青年的人物形象。此后陆续发表了《竞争者》、《年轻的来访者》、《小小的天地》、《山里的冬天》等作品。《打死父亲》是他的代表作之一，作品通过父与子的冲突，表现了青年一代与传统、权威、规范等价值标准进行决裂的态度。

Lecturer in Art History, University of St Andrews

Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by new critical approaches, this book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds t...(展开全部)

Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by new critical approaches, this book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds t...(展开全部)

The British Isles is an account of thirteen years of life across the United Kingdom, as seen through the lens of Jamie Hawkesworth. In this sprawling sequence of portraits and landscapes, Hawkesworth surveys the characters and terrains that make up the everyday fabric of his home country: schoolchildren and shopworkers, markets and estates, priests and professionals, cities and...(展开全部)