Amazon.com Alain de Botton has crafted a delightfully ingenious novel in the form of a biography of an unknown woman. Told by a former flame that he lacks empathy, the engaging narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a book about the next person he meets. This turns out to be Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a London stationery company. The sincere effort of this would...(展开全部)

杰克·弗莱姆，纽约城市大学荣誉教授，研究方向为19～20世纪的艺术史。他曾撰写大量书籍和艺术评论，并广泛地在世界各地的博物馆和大学举办艺术史方面的讲座。他的著作Matisse：The Manand HisArt，1869—1918荣获1986年普利策奖人物传记类的提名。1984年至1992年，他担任《华尔街日报》艺术评论员。

The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality. Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, ...(展开全部)

Museums and art galleries appear to be and would claim to be open to all, and yet, in fact, they are visited only by a small segment of the population. Who are those whose love of art brings them into museums? What distinguishes them from the majority of people who exclude themselves or who are effectively excluded? In this classic study, Bourdieu, Darbel and Schnapper...(展开全部)

Everyone can visit the art treasures held in the great museums of the world. And yet, in fact, museums are visited by only a small segment of the population. What are the characteristics of those who display their love of art by strolling through the aisles of museums, and what distinguishes them from the majority of people who are effectively excluded, or exclude themselves, f...(展开全部)

Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, "exemplary women" (lienu)-heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example-were written into official dynastic histories fo...(展开全部)

Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, "exemplary women" (lienu)-heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example-were written into official dynastic histories fo...(展开全部)

【作者简介】：凯瑟琳•格雷丝•卡茨，作家、历史学家，在哈佛大学和剑桥大学接受历史学教育，师从英国著名历史学家尼尔•弗格森。 【译者简介】：李阳，南京大学历史学博士，伦敦大学历史研究所访问学者。现为上海外国语大学国际关系与公共事务学院讲师，开设中英文课程“国际关系史”及“A Survey of Chinese History”等，研究兴趣主要包括国际关系历史叙事的书写、建构与翻译。

CATHERINE GRACE KATZ is a writer and historian from Chicago. She holds degrees in history from Harvard and Cambridge and is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School.

Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, yet no one knows the love story that led to its construction. Author Alice Brière-Haquet and Illustrated by Csil have pooled their creative talents to tell this touching story about overcoming hardship with clever invention fueled by love. Mr. and Mrs. Eiffel are a happy couple enjoying living in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. Until...(展开全部)