Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on 1493 by Charles C. Mann Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Stand; In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award; Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and Mayflower, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on 1493 by Charles C. Mann Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Stand; In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award; Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and Mayflower, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer ...(展开全部)

菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

Thirty-five million individual investors jumped into the stock market for the first time during the late 1990s without asking questions about the stocks they were buying. When the bubble burst and the large number of accounting scandals began to grow, most investors didn’t know where to turn or whom to trust. Now it has become more important than ever for investors to take matt...(展开全部)

Thirty-five million individual investors jumped into the stock market for the first time during the late 1990s without asking questions about the stocks they were buying. When the bubble burst and the large number of accounting scandals began to grow, most investors didn’t know where to turn or whom to trust. Now it has become more important than ever for investors to take matt...(展开全部)

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure 'Japaneseness' has been integral to the construction of a modern Japanese nation, especially during periods of western colonial expansion and cultural encroachment. But Thomas LaMarre ar...(展开全部)

The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure 'Japaneseness' has been integral to the construction of a modern Japanese nation, especially during periods of western colonial expansion and cultural encroachment. But Thomas LaMarre ar...(展开全部)