【格罗塞】 （Ernst Grosse，1862—1927）德国艺术史家、社会学家，现代艺术社会学奠基人之一。曾任弗赖堡大学教授。主要著作有：《艺术的起源》（1894）、《艺术学研究》（1900）等。美学上他主张把哲学美学与艺术科学分离开来，他认为包括艺术在内的精神生活与社会的经济形态之间有密切关系。提倡从社会学、人类学、民族学等多方面对艺术学和艺术史进行研究。他认为艺术科学的真正目的，是对艺术的性质、产生艺术的原因及其效果作全面探讨。艺术活动也是审美活动，它的发展过程或后果都有直接的感情价值，这种感情价值大半是愉快的。所以艺术（或审美）本身也是目的，其它的目的无关紧要。除了艺术活动，还有实际活动（如生产劳动）和游戏活动。实际活动是一种手段，而游戏活动中则介于二者之间。他用社会学的观点深入考察了原始民族的艺术，利用人种史和人类学的资料，阐明艺术起源的...(展开全部)

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest g...(展开全部)

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest g...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)

"Bring[s] both entertainment and enlightenment to the subject of how modern philosophical thought challenged the church's doctrine on the relationship between God and man and led to democratic challenges to monarchy and the divine right of kings... Nimbly advance[s] through a little more than a century in fewer than 200 pages, presenting a primer that can instruct those new to ...(展开全部)

"The Croods" takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodaceous period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. "The Art of The Croods" traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of concept art, character sketches, storyboards and digital paintings, and key talen...(展开全部)

The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge-who cheated their clients out of millions un...(展开全部)

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything---where there's a will, Guy Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.