Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him-the ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into sma...(展开全部)

“Small Things in Silence” offers a perspective on twenty years in the career of one of Japan’s most important photographers. In the words of Yamamoto himself: “I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I seen them in print, a new story begins.”

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

吉奥乔·阿甘本(1942- )，欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授，意大利维罗拉大学美学教授，并在巴黎国际哲学学院教授哲学。他在攻读博士后阶段，参与了由马丁·海德格尔主持的研讨会，并主持了瓦尔特·本雅明意大利译本的翻译工作。阿甘本对文学理论，欧陆哲学，政治思想，宗教研究以及文学和艺术的融会贯通，使他成为当代最著名的思想家之一。

这套作品包含了山本昌南的94幅代表作，这位摄影师因其以精湛的明胶银盐技术表达的诗意世界观而在艺术界备受赞誉。一棵树的根，一朵浪花的涌动，让人锐利地看到大自然带来的美，平静却不容易达到，有一种永恒的存在，一种超越时间和空间的静谧。本书是日版的新版本，对2015年出版的内容进行了一些修订。 作者自述：我一直认为，所有的事情和事物都没有 "绝对 "或 "完成"。我在生活中感到自己和周围的环境都处于变化之中。一个单位的人类、动物或植物 ..... 我认为重要的是要记住，我们都是通过吸入和排出我们周围的空气而与环境融为一体，这包括我们的大脑。没有单一稳固的思想，它根据环境的变化而更新 .... 它的更新就像流动的一样。我的作品集是在意识到每件作品中都有一个故事的情况下创作的，在一本书的流程中也有一个故事和一个思想。即使是一个在某个时间点上有意义的故事，随着时间...(展开全部)

It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grud...(展开全部)

Lord Denning draws from a wide range of sources to support his arguments and incorporates coverage of many different cases, including that of the Russell baby, the Granada 'mole' and the case of Harriet Harman, all of which are selected on the grounds that 'the experience of the past points the way to the future'. The book also discusses the proposals for law reform which have ...(展开全部)

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of sile...(展开全部)

This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health probl...(展开全部)

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)