NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to ...(展开全部)

《花之语》（Language of Flowers），如凯特·格林纳威作品一贯的风格，清新，优雅，浪漫。 配以美轮美奂的插图，从A到Z，将200余种花卉的花语一一写出。闲暇时光，捧来翻阅一番，当赏心悦目。

夏尔·波德莱尔（Charles Baudelair, 1821-1867），法国诗人。作品有诗集《恶之花》和散文诗集《巴黎的忧郁》，另写有大量文学和美学论文。他被认为是使欧洲人的经验方式和写作方式发生重大变革的作家，他的美学理论在诗歌和艺术史上是一个重大转折点，是现代主义各流派灵感与理论的不尽泉源。

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and...(展开全部)

Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other...(展开全部)

We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the s...(展开全部)

Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those difficult conditions is a lyrical portrait of the criminal underground of Paris ...(展开全部)

Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those difficult conditions is a lyrical portrait of the criminal underground of Paris ...(展开全部)

The Inuit occupy an immense area of land - from the easternmost tip of Russia, through Alaska and Canada, to Greenland. Inuit language, history, semantics, sociology, and anthropology show a variety of distinct characteristic in different parts of this vast area. Covering an equally impressive range, "The Language of the Inuit" is the most comprehensive study to date of the lan...(展开全部)

卡拉・麦克拉伦，美国著名心理学家、作家、教育家，移情疗法的创始人。她用移情的方法处理情绪，成功治愈了自己童年的创伤，并开始了移情治疗的职业生涯。现在她的研究领域拓展到社会学、神经病学、认知心理学和社会心理学，出版发行了《发现情绪的深层次秘密》、《花园重建：童年创伤愈合疗法》等多部专著。 林琳，中国社会科学院哲学博士，中国艺术研究院助理研究员，中华美学学会会员，著有《灵魂拷问——伯格曼哲思电影之美》、《我们：在文化中》、《环境与艺术：环境美学的多维视角》等多部著作。