In this remarkable publication, the celebrated photographic artist Wolfgang Tillmans draws together a comprehensive overview of his work to date, incorporating over 2,400 images. Tillmans's breadth of vision is captivating: whether as still life, portrait, landscape or abstract composition it challenges and expands the viewer's visual and temporal awareness.

“Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…and his excitement is contagious.”—James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the ...(展开全部)

“Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…and his excitement is contagious.”—James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the ...(展开全部)

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and conse...(展开全部)

Product Description John Tosh argues we are in danger of missing history's principal contribution, and provides a practical introduction to thinking with history. This text articulates the practical relevance of studying History and its importance in our society today. It capitalizes on the current popularity of history to demonstrate ways in which it can contribute not merely ...(展开全部)

Does history matter? Is it anything more than entertainment? And if so, what practical relevance does it have? In this fully revised second edition of a seminal text, John Tosh persuasively argues that history is central to an informed and critical understanding of topical issues in the present. Including a range of contemporary examples from Brexit to child sexual abuse to the...(展开全部)