The Winston Effect is an in-depth look at the development of some of cinamatography's greatest sci-fi characters. from Jurassic Park, to Terminator, Preditor and more, this book shows you a ton of behind the scenes photos, sketches, and techniques that are very inspiring for anyone interested in this type of work. If you like concept development, or are a sci-fi movie enthusias...(展开全部)

温斯顿·邱吉尔（1874-1968）毕业于英国哈罗公学和桑赫斯特军事学院，在军中服役数年后，做了一名报纸记者，随后成为议员。1940年5月张伯伦政府倒台后，邱吉尔组建了联合政府，并在第二次世界大战期间担任了英国的战时首相。他在1945年7月的大选中败北，成为反对党领袖，并于1951年再度当选首相。在他生命的最后岁月中，他经常被称为”尚健在的最伟大的英国人”。他于1953年被封为爵士，并获得了当年的诺贝尔文学奖。他的孙子温斯顿·S·邱吉尔（生于1940年），也是一位作家、记者和政治人物。

inston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the definitive collection of Churchill's speeches fills eight volumes, here for the first time, his grandson, Winston S. Churchill, has put ...(展开全部)

Best friends since college Leigh, Adriana, and Emmy are all immersed in busy, fabulous New York City lives that nonetheless afford them plenty of time to sit around watching Grey's Anatomy and moan to each other about their problems, chief among them the horrifying fact that they are all on the cusp of 30. Leigh, a hard-driving editor at a publishing house, fears she doesn't ac...(展开全部)

In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his "Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written eviden...(展开全部)

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action. THE LAST LION brilliantly...(展开全部)

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action. THE LAST LION brilliantly...(展开全部)

This masterly collection of texts interrogates the raging academic question, What is art history? Editor Preziosi, who directs ground-breaking critical studies of art history and museology, provides introductions to 35 challenging readings gathered in nine chapters. This plethora of alternatives is curiously complicated, even obfuscating. Covered here are the most current and r...(展开全部)

Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto’s first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narr...(展开全部)