约翰·伯格（John Berger） 英国艺术评论家、小说家、画家和诗人，1926 年出生于英国伦敦。1944年至1946年在英国军队服役。退役后入切尔西艺术学院和伦敦中央艺术学院学习。20世纪40年代后期，伯格以画家身份开始其创作生涯，于伦敦多个画廊举办展览。1948年至1955年，他以教授绘画为业，并为伦敦著名杂志《新政治家》撰稿，迅速成为英国最有影响力的艺术批评家之一。 1972 年，他的电视系列片《观看之道》在BBC播出，同时出版配套的图文书，遂成艺术批评的经典之作。小说《G》为他赢得了布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。2008 年，伯格凭借 小说《A致X:给狱中情人的温柔书简》再次获得布克奖提名。2017年1月2日，约翰·伯格在法国安东尼去世。 让·摩尔（Jean Mohr） 瑞士纪实摄影师，1925 年出生于瑞士日内瓦。1949年以来，...(展开全部)

约翰·伯格（John Berger） 英国艺术评论家、小说家、画家和诗人，1926 年出生于英国伦敦。1944年至1946年在英国军队服役。退役后入切尔西艺术学院和伦敦中央艺术学院学习。20世纪40年代后期，伯格以画家身份开始其创作生涯，于伦敦多个画廊举办展览。1948年至1955年，他以教授绘画为业，并为伦敦著名杂志《新政治家》撰稿，迅速成为英国最有影响力的艺术批评家之一。 1972 年，他的电视系列片《观看之道》在BBC播出，同时出版配套的图文书，遂成艺术批评的经典之作。小说《G》为他赢得了布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。2008 年，伯格凭借 小说《A致X:给狱中情人的温柔书简》再次获得布克奖提名。2017年1月2日，约翰·伯格在法国安东尼去世。 让·摩尔（Jean Mohr） 瑞士纪实摄影师，1925 年出生于瑞士日内瓦。1949年以来，...(展开全部)

The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering painti...(展开全部)

WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A long overdue, revisionist history of art by the brilliant Katy Hessel . . . Never stuffy or supercilious, Hessel's book is a revelation and an important first step towards redressing the balance of an art world in which women have been sidelined, stepped over and trampled upon for far too long.' REFINERY29...(展开全部)

The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super rich would act “as gods among men”; much more recently Thomas Piketty made wealth central to discussions of inequality. In this book, Guido Alfani offers a history of the rich and super-rich in the West, examining who they were, how they accumulated their wealth and what role...(展开全部)

October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of ...(展开全部)

Julius Evola's masterful overview of the political and social manifestations of our time, the "age of decline" known to the Hindus as the Kali Yuga. - Reveals the occult war that underlies the crises that have become a prevailing feature of modern life. - Includes H. T. Hansen's definitive essay on Evola's political life and theory. Men Among the Ruins is Evola's frontal assau...(展开全部)

In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its abandonment during Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition, and to its final rediscovery ...(展开全部)

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.