The pecuiliarity of the English, a personal view - Alan Macfarlane writes as both an insider (British parents, brought up and educated and living in England, working on English history), and as an outsider (five-eighths Scots, working as an anthropologist in Nepal, Japan and China). The book explains very simply some of the key features that those who wish to understand the Eng...(展开全部)

This is a book written for those who come to England from abroad, whether as short-term visitors, to be educated or engage in work, whether they come from the Continent or from other civilisations, especially the Far East. It provides over a hundred short descriptions of prominent English features and then tries to explain their origin and function. Under the first two letters,...(展开全部)

Carl Sagan’s prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents h...(展开全部)

On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God. Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman in bestselli...(展开全部)

On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God. Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman in bestselli...(展开全部)

Carl Sagan’s prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents h...(展开全部)

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. ...(展开全部)

肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903－1983） 英国作家、艺术史家，被公认为20世纪英国艺术界“一言九鼎”的人物之一。他曾在27岁时担任牛津阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，30岁主理英国国家美术馆。进入50年代，他通过担任多部艺术类电视纪录片的主持人进入公众视野。1969年，随着纪录片《文明》和同名图书的问世，克拉克的声誉达到了顶峰。 译者简介 易英，男，1953年出生于湖南。中央美术学院教授、博士生导师，中央美术学院《美术研究》杂志社社长、《世界美术》主编。马英九表弟。

肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903－1983） 英国作家、艺术史家，被公认为20世纪英国艺术界“一言九鼎”的人物之一。他曾在27岁时担任牛津阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，30岁主理英国国家美术馆。进入50年代，他通过担任多部艺术类电视纪录片的主持人进入公众视野。1969年，随着纪录片《文明》和同名图书的问世，克拉克的声誉达到了顶峰。 译者简介 易英，男，1953年出生于湖南。中央美术学院教授、博士生导师，中央美术学院《美术研究》杂志社社长、《世界美术》主编。马英九表弟。

'Kenneth Clark has used his masterly knowledge and understanding of the arts of Western Civilisation to describe and appraise its creative achievements.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Combines great learning with a shrewd mind, a wonderful eye and an admirable generosity of taste ... again and again he compels us to look at some more or less familiar work of art and see it afre...(展开全部)