In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets) in New York City’s w...(展开全部)

W. Eugene Smith: The Arrogant Martyr / Gilles Mora -- What Is a Symbolic Image? / Serge Tisseron -- W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh: Rumours of a City / Alan Trachtenberg -- The Influences of a Legend / Gabriel Bauret -- W. Eugene Smith: His Techniques and Process / John T. Hill. SUMMARY This is the most complete monograph on the work of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), one of the he...(展开全部)

In 1955, having ended his high-profile career with "Life" magazine, W. Eugene Smith spent a year in Pittsburgh compiling nearly 16,000 photographs. Only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs. Now, in an assemblage of pictures that Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole", we see a portrayal not just ...(展开全部)

The Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo and National Geographic photographer presents the first collection of his iconic adventure photography, featuring some of the greatest moments of the most accomplished climbers and outdoor athletes in the world, and including more than 200 extraordinary photographs. Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin g...(展开全部)

《微观历史:1957-1965》内容简介：建国初期，究竟是一段怎样的岁月？获得新生后的民众在改天换地的豪情中，经历了怎样的曲折坎坷？历次大规模的运动中，个人命运发生着怎样戏剧性的变化？党和人民在探索的道路上，经历了怎样的波折和迷茫？作为二十世纪五六十年代大跃进人民公社化运动、整风整社运动、四清运动的当事人，作者依据当时的主流意识，以日记的形式，从个人视角记录了历次运动中的所见、所闻、所思、所感，带我们走进那段不平凡的岁月，重温历史，感受时代脉搏的跳动，以及特定历史时期真实的社会风貌。这些日记，既是火热年代平民的心灵史，更是时代的活化石。

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)

Der dritte Band der Briefe Samuel Becketts zeigt den Autor bei dem fast aussichtslosen Versuch, sowohl den Anforderungen, die sein wachsender internationaler Ruhm mit sich bringt, gerecht zu werden als auch dem Bedürfnis nach Alleinsein und Ruhe, woraus allein neue Texte entstehen können, Raum zu geben. Beckett schreibt in dieser Zeit Hörspiele (Alle, die da fallen und Aschengl...(展开全部)

The first biography of the musician Elliott Smith, whose heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death Best for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards. Some of his albums, XO and Either/Or among t...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 An Essential Primer on Understanding Photography by One of theWorld's Most Influential Photographers "In my roughly twenty years of writing about photography, I don't thinkI've come across a book that has implied so much with so few words, a bookthat raises so many important questions with so little fanfare and withsuch precision."-James Kaufmann, Photographer's Forum...(展开全部)

This revised and enlarged sixth edition of Proofs from THE BOOK features an entirely new chapter on Van der Waerden’s permanent conjecture, as well as additional, highly original and delightful proofs in other chapters. From the citation on the occasion of the 2018 "Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition" “… It is almost impossible to write a mathematics book that can be read...(展开全部)