The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

What is a family? Grandparents, mom, dad, and kids around a Thanksgiving turkey? An egg mother, a womb mother, a sperm donor, and their mutual child? Two gay men caring for their adopted son? In this provocative essay, a leading American legal historian argues that laws about family are increasingly laws about individuals and their right to make their own, sometimes contentious...(展开全部)

乔治・瓦萨里（Giolgi Vasarl，1511一1574），意大利作家、画家和建筑师。瓦萨里生于阿雷佐。自幼学习艺术，后赴佛罗伦萨，在安德烈亚・德尔・萨尔托的作坊里干活，受到梅迪奇家族的保护。瓦萨里遗世的主要绘画作品，是佛罗伦萨老宫和罗马梵蒂冈宫内的壁画。作为建筑师，瓦萨里是同时代伟大的米开朗琪罗的追随者。他设计的重要建筑有佛罗伦萨乌菲齐宫（现为博物馆）、比萨和阿雷佐的若干宫殿和教堂。但是，他对艺术史的主要贡献是他的意大利文艺复兴时期重要艺术家的传记。

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Ma...(展开全部)

作者简介 哈罗德·惠特斯通·约翰斯顿(1859—1912)，生于美国伊利诺伊州拉什维尔，是一位古典历史学家，同时也是一位才华横溢的教师，在印第安纳大学担任拉丁语教授一职。哈罗德热心拉丁语教育事业，出版有《西塞罗演讲与书信集》《拉丁手稿》《凯撒的〈高卢战记〉》等。其中他最出名著作The Private Life of the Romans，就是专为尚未掌握拉丁语却对罗马个人史感兴趣的大学生而编写。 译者简介 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《藏书的艺术》《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等。曾游历欧亚17个国家，翻译了法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

作者简介 哈罗德·惠特斯通·约翰斯顿(1859—1912)，生于美国伊利诺伊州拉什维尔，是一位古典历史学家，同时也是一位才华横溢的教师，在印第安纳大学担任拉丁语教授一职。哈罗德热心拉丁语教育事业，出版有《西塞罗演讲与书信集》《拉丁手稿》《凯撒的〈高卢战记〉》等。其中他最出名著作The Private Life of the Romans，就是专为尚未掌握拉丁语却对罗马个人史感兴趣的大学生而编写。 译者简介 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《藏书的艺术》《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等。曾游历欧亚17个国家，翻译了法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

作者简介 哈罗德·惠特斯通·约翰斯顿(1859—1912)，生于美国伊利诺伊州拉什维尔，是一位古典历史学家，同时也是一位才华横溢的教师，在印第安纳大学担任拉丁语教授一职。哈罗德热心拉丁语教育事业，出版有《西塞罗演讲与书信集》《拉丁手稿》《凯撒的〈高卢战记〉》等。其中他最出名著作The Private Life of the Romans，就是专为尚未掌握拉丁语却对罗马个人史感兴趣的大学生而编写。 译者简介 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《藏书的艺术》《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等。曾游历欧亚17个国家，翻译了法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and no...(展开全部)

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg has traced the consecutive line of composers from Claudio Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however, great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors...(展开全部)