In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies, a field that he has helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and counter-visuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-cent...(展开全部)

In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies, a field that he has helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and counter-visuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-cent...(展开全部)

Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus

Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus

William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Sha...(展开全部)

What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated in color, Daniel Arasse, one of the most brilliant art historians of our time, cl...(展开全部)

In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. We now know much more about the problems our ancestors faced, the solutions they found, and the trade-offs they made. The drama of their experiences led to the humans we are t...(展开全部)

After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, "The" "Killer Angels," remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara's masterpiece-and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years ...(展开全部)

作者简介：埃莱娜·德鲁韦尔 自由设计师，毕业于法国巴黎杜柏利艺术学院，活跃于巴黎和巴斯克两地，有自己的设计工作室，用来支持她在绘画、纸艺、设计等艺术形式在童书领域的探索；致力于建立不同领域之间的联系，曾在马蒂尼埃青年出版社出版了影响力巨大的《胡桃夹子小剧场》和《皇后的故事》两本书，并凭借《飞翔的巴黎》一书获得2015年图书之夜青少年图书奖。值得一提的是本书完成于作者的孩子出世之时，称得上是一件珍贵的爱的礼物，使得本书由内而外，别具神采。 译者简介：陈思宇 2014年获得法国昂热大学艺术文学硕士学位，2015年获得中国海洋大学法语语言文学硕士学位，现任河海大学外国语学院法语系教师，法语翻译，已出版《现代法国的起源：大革命之革命政府》《人体城市》等作品。

This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Cham...(展开全部)