Behind the Glass takes its title from Alexandra Catiere’s series shot in Minsk and Moscow in 2005-2006. Curated and designed by Chose Commune, this book brings together photographs from this early unpublished series with additional selected images. Included is a new set of photograms; the artist’s latest camera-less experiments composed of light, sensitized paper, pebbles and g...(展开全部)

The Roman author Pliny tells the story - well known in the Renaissance - of the famous Greek painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear the comments of spectators. Martin Kemp takes this motif as an effective point of entry into the problem of what lies behind the business of picture-making in the Renaissance, in particular the role of the artist and the func...(展开全部)

An international sensation, Sofi Oksanen’s award-winning novel Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them. When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her she...(展开全部)

索菲·奥克萨宁（Sofi Oksanen），1977年出生于芬兰，母亲是爱沙尼亚裔，父亲是芬兰人。2003年出版第一部小说《斯大林的乳牛》（Stalin’s Cows），内容充满争议，受到各界讨论。两年后，出版第二部小说《宝贝雅内》（Baby Jane）。2007年，剧本《清洗》（Puhdistus）登上芬兰国家戏剧院，成为芬兰国家戏剧院的常备剧目。2008年，同名小说《清洗》出版，一炮而红，迅速成为芬兰头号畅销书，包揽了芬兰最重要的两个文学大奖——芬兰国家文学奖和鲁内贝格奖，从而创纪录地成为第一部同时获得这两项大奖的作品。2010年，此书又获得了北欧地区的最高文学奖——北欧理事会文学奖，以及法国的费米娜外国小说奖，2013年，更是荣获素有“小诺奖”之称的瑞典学院北欧文学奖——奥克萨宁成为该奖有史以来最年轻的获奖者，也是第一位芬兰女得主。《清洗》在全...(展开全部)

Steve McCurry's iconic images have made him one of the world's most popular photographers for more than 30 years. Now Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs will, for the first time, tell the stories behind over 200 stunning images taken by McCurry from across the globe, including Afghanistan, India, Tibet, Kuwait, the USA, and beyond. In the finest document...(展开全部)

Steve McCurry's iconic images have made him one of the world's most popular photographers for more than 30 years. Now Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs will, for the first time, tell the stories behind over 200 stunning images taken by McCurry from across the globe, including Afghanistan, India, Tibet, Kuwait, the USA, and beyond. In the finest document...(展开全部)

One hundred years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind eight insights that are foundations of Montessori edu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description McDonald's: it is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing. In tough financial times, McDonald's proved that ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instinct were the keys to building a service business the entire world has come to admire. In the years since McDonald's: Behind The Arch...(展开全部)

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she fin...(展开全部)