"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled....(展开全部)

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the s...(展开全部)

Why is the cinema 100 years old, and not 120 or 150 years old? Why do Kodak film stocks have such trouble capturing non-Caucasian skin tones? Why did professionals wait thirty years and more before widely adopting 16mm film? Technologies of Seeing is a breakthrough in analysis of the idealogical and aesthetic forces central to the historical development of film and television...(展开全部)

Unique insight into life at one of the world's favorite museums How can the growth of insects help to solve crimes? What did the world look like in the time of the dinosaurs? How do shark experts help Olympic athletes swim faster? Based on the major six-part BBC TV series, this book offers a unique insight into the innovative, dramatic, and often surprising work of this world r...(展开全部)

Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would “see” by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of television, from fantastical image transmission devices initially imagined in the 1870s su...(展开全部)

How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the ...(展开全部)

“A must-read for anyone who wants to understand why they behave as they do.” —Art Markman, Ph.D., author of Smart Thinking Do you play to win? Or do you play not to lose? As Tory Higgins and Heidi Grant Halvorson have discovered in their work at Columbia University’s Motivation Science Center, everything we do is motivated either by a desire to be better off or to simply hang o...(展开全部)

威廉·莎士比亚于1564年4月26日在埃文河畔的英格兰小镇斯特拉特福受洗，是富商约翰·莎士比亚和他的妻子玛丽·阿登的第三个孩子。据推测，少年时期的莎士比亚就读过斯特拉特福文法学校，并在那里学习了英语、希腊语和拉丁语。但历史学家不能确定莎士比亚具体的出生日期。 1582年，莎士比亚与安妮·哈撤韦结婚。这对夫妇在1583年有了女儿苏珊娜，两年后又有7双胞胎哈姆尼特和朱迪思。在1585年到1592年期间，莎士比亚住在伦敦。在那里，他先是当了一名演员，后来成为了剧作家。他的剧团即国王剧团，经常在环球剧场表演，莎士比亚是该剧场的股东之一。 莎士比亚一生共写了37部戏剧、一些诗歌和大量的十四行诗。1611年，他离开剧场喧嚣的生活，归隐于斯特拉特福镇，住在镇上的第二大房子里，成为了一名乡绅。这之后，莎士比亚度过了5年平静的生活于1616年4月2...(展开全部)

Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics an...(展开全部)