Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left their record in the four intimate Diaries in which he faithfully recorded the events of his inner and outer life from his ninet...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Reduced from a more extensive German exhibition catalog, this publication is thin and summary in its text, offering a narrow slice of the intriguing Swiss artist Klee (1897-1940). The plates, with extended commentaries, provide the emotional connection with an artist who in much of his work attempted to capture the emotional mystical flux of the plant world...(展开全部)

This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. "Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history...This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle". (Norman Stone). "The Berlin-Baghdad Express" explores one of the big, previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the Brit...(展开全部)

'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ...This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' - Norman Stone. "The Berlin-Baghdad Express" explores one of the big, previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire...(展开全部)

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the en

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乔治·凯南（1904年—2005年），美国著名外交家、政治学家和历史学家，对苏联遏制政策始创人，两次荣获普利策奖和国家图书奖。1946年2月22日，任美国驻苏联代办期间，乔治·凯南向美国国务院发出著名的“长电报”，对苏联的内部社会和对外政策进行了深入分析，提出了最终被美国政府所采纳的长期对苏战略。 弗兰克·科斯蒂廖拉，美国康涅狄格大学冷战史教授，著有《罗斯福丧失盟友：个人政治如何促发冷战》《尴尬的领导权》《法国与美国：第二次世界大战以来的冷战联盟》等。

Description: Before Carrie Bradshaw hit the big time in the City, she was a regular girl growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut. How did she turn into one of the most-read social observers of our generation? The Carrie Diaries opens up in Carrie's senior year of high school. She and her best friends -- Walt, Lali, Maggie, and the Mouse -- are inseparable, amid the sea ...(展开全部)

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are the diaries of Che Guevara, full of disasters and discoveries, high drama and laddish improvisations. Touring through Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela,...(展开全部)

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and huma...(展开全部)