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)

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)

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.

W.奥拉夫·斯塔普雷顿（1886—1950），英国科幻小说大师、哲学家，以创作宏大、奇异的幻想文学作品而著称，2014年入选“科幻奇幻名人堂”。主要作品包括《最后与最初的人》（1930）、《奇怪的约翰》（1936）、《造星主》（1937）和《天狼星》（1944）等。作为现代幻想小说的先驱和杰出代表，斯塔普雷顿不仅深刻影响了阿瑟·克拉克、斯坦尼斯拉夫·莱姆等科幻小说大师的创作，也受到博尔赫斯、多丽丝·莱辛等文学大师的一致推崇。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret -- from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Mone...(展开全部)