《不朽的小提琴家》再现了历史上不朽小提琴家的魅力，简要而有趣地叙述其生活、个性与事业。作者就他们对作曲者、公众品味的影响以及演奏技巧的贡献等各个方面，讲述了这些小提琴家的特殊成就。 作者玛格丽特·坎贝尔参阅了大量的书信和私人文件，并且访问许多著名音乐家，很多人为《不朽的小提琴家》提供了从未发表过的回忆录和珍贵照片。 《不朽的小提琴家》是一本献给音乐会听众、唱片收藏者（有“唱片目录”）、弦乐演奏者和学生等所有爱好小提琴演奏艺术者的书。

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本书以大量的图片，介绍了时尚写真文化。包括什么是艺术、艺术写真的“性感”、切肤之爱?贴身情人、拍摄中的亲密接触、艺术写真的艺术素质、艺术写真的创作过程等。

As a tribute to the gardening of a unique region this volumeportrays 32 of the most celebrated gardens of the American South,ranging from the grand gardens of the Antebellum Plantations tostrikingly simple, creative plantings of the modern era. Drawingfrom primary sources as well as first-hand impressions of eachgarden featured, the author reveals the special beauty of southerngardens along with the personalities of their gardeners. Thisvolume, illustrated with 200 specially commissioned photographs incolour and many vintage prints, surveys the southern garden from1750 to the present. It includes early gardeners who introduced newplants and garden designs to the early coastal plantations;homesteaders who moved inland as far west as Tennessee and plantedsmall, practical gardens; industrialists who used new money tobuild large formal gardens, such as the Vanderbilt country estatein Asheville, North Carolina; and, finally, 20th-centuryindividuals whose rustic getaways consist of fantastic countrygrounds o

The subversive songs of Tom Lehrer, the sardonic piano-wieldingfugitive from Harvard, have corrupted generations of Americanssince he first began recording and performing in the 1950s. Hisuniquely depraved wit has been forced again on an unsuspectingpublic' via Tomfoolery, the stage revue based on his ever-trenchantobservation of the American scene. This new songbook, with oldfavorites unavailable for years as well as never-published songs,is the most comprehensive ever assembled. It contains the words,tunes, piano accompaniments, and guitar chords for thesethirty-four classics.

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From Bruno Taut’s glass house to the Crystal Palace, geodesicdomes to the Millennium Dome, this lavishly illustrated explorationof lightness in architecture explains how and why the movementbegan, and shows where it will take us in the future. Architecture has been moving towards lightness since thebeginning of the twentieth century. As new building materialsbecome available, and as land disappears, architects have focusedon efficiency, impermanence and flexibility in structures.Illustrating the achievements of the most visionary architects ofthe past and present, Featherweights traces the evolution oflightness in architecture from the fantastic glass structures ofthe early twentieth century to the latest hi-tech materials for thethird millennium. Covering everything from pre-fab houses toinflatable buildings, utopian architecture to virtual cities, thisfascinating exploration illustrates the ongoing dialogue betweenshelter and society and offers exciting glimpses into a future inwhich gravity is optional

Worldwide appeal - familiar expert among readers of Better Homesand Gardens and Australia's Embroidery and Cross Stitch magazines,plus viewers of HGTV, and PBS' "Creative Living"

Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series ofinteractive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children aboutthe world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world.Each volume in this innovative best-selling series, with over200,000 in print, is devoted to a subject that every child alreadyknows from personal experience. In How Artists See America, sixteenworks of art show the many different ways a selection of greatartists--from Winslow Homer and Childe Hassam to Georgia O'Keeffeand Romare Bearden--have perceived the breathtaking variety oflandscapes and the diversity of people living in the four majorregions of the United States. Author Colleen Carroll's engaging,conversational text is filled with thought-provoking questions andimaginative activities that spark children's natural curiosity bothabout the subject of the artwork and about the way it was created.This direct, interactive approach to art--and to theworld--promotes self-exploration, self-discovery, andself-expression. As i

Can’t get enough of the King? A lively romp through all thingsPresley, this sassy guide covers what you really want toknow about the man who continues to leave generations of females“All Shook Up.” “It’s just like being in junior high again. This book offers thescoop on Elvis’s way with women–the wives, the girlfriends, thescreaming fans–and leaves plenty of room for ever important hairand wardrobe discussions...[and] films and concert highlightstoo.”– Time The first book explicitly fashioned forElvis Presley’s largest fan base, The Girls’ Guide to Elvis offers a fabulously fun look at the man who begged us to love himtender. This kitschy, dishy, gossip-filled guidebook is packed withnever-before-seen photographs and tasty tidbits about the King ofRock and Roll and his insatiable appetite for females, finery, andgood old down-home food. Discover Elvis’s bedroom do’s anddon’ts. Dig into details about his relationships with Priscilla,Ann-Margret, and Na

Tradition has it that the young American republic had anatural affinity with the 17th-century Dutch oligarchy--they sharedconcepts of democracy, religious freedom, the rise of the middleclass, and a protestant work ethic. Bostonians from the 18thcentury to the present have turned this affinity into a passion forcollecting Dutch painting. Landscapes that capture the subtletiesof southern light, cityscapes and church interiors, seascapes,portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes are among the humble,precious, everyday subjects that have appealed to them. This booktraces the history of Boston's remarkable collection of Dutchpainting, including little-known works by Rembrandt, Balthasar vander Ast, Jan van der Heyden, and Jacob van Ruisdael, bringingtogether works from private collections usually seen only in theirowner's homes. Essay by Ronni Baer. Artists include: Balthasar van der Ast,Franz Hals, Jan van der Heyden, Rembrandt, Jacob Ruisdael.

《不朽的小提琴家》再现了历史上不朽小提琴家的魅力，简要而有趣地叙述其生活、个性与事业。作者就他们对作曲者、公众品味的影响以及演奏技巧的贡献等各个方面，讲述了这些小提琴家的特殊成就。作者玛格丽特·坎贝尔参阅了大量的书信和私人文件，并且访问许多著名音乐家，很多人为《不朽的小提琴家》提供了从未发表过的回忆录和珍贵照片。《不朽的小提琴家》是一本献给音乐会听众、唱片收藏者（有“唱片目录”）、弦乐演奏者和学生等所有爱好小提琴演奏艺术者的书。

Stanley Spencer was the most intensely local of all greatartists, and his native village of Cookham was a central source ofinspiration. Yet he was far from parochial, and woven into DuncanRobinson's account of the artist's career is a just appreciation ofhis greatness and of his place in the wider context of Europeanart. This book celebrates both the range and the powerfulindividual quality of Spencer's achievements as a religiousvisionary, war artist, portrait painter and landscapist.

《不朽的小提琴家》再现了历史上不朽小提琴家的魅力，简要而有趣地叙述其生活、个性与事业。作者就他们对作曲者、公众品味的影响以及演奏技巧的贡献等各个方面，讲述了这些小提琴家的特殊成就。作者玛格丽特·坎贝尔参阅了大量的书信和私人文件，并且访问许多著名音乐家，很多人为《不朽的小提琴家》提供了从未发表过的回忆录和珍贵照片。《不朽的小提琴家》是一本献给音乐会听众、唱片收藏者（有“唱片目录”）、弦乐演奏者和学生等所有爱好小提琴演奏艺术者的书。

A tribute to the Pacific Northwest's grunge genre draws on theobservations of individuals at the forefront of the movement fromSoundgarden and the Melvins to Nirvana and Pearl Jam, citing theinfluences of such factors as the rise of Seattle's Sub Pop recordlabel and the death of Kurt Cobain.

The moral of this book is that behind every great engineeringsuccess is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular)engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best knownexamples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action-- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seentossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage),the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- andmany lesser known but equally informative examples. The line ofreasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized intohis quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in TheEvolution of Useful Things , but this book is arguably the moreilluminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these twotitles. Highly recommended.

它不仅是中华民族的文化瑰宝，而且在世界文化艺术宝库中独放异彩。该内容主要针对初学者，课程以欣赏书法和学习基础书法为主，讲解过程详尽、并插有丰富的书法作品。本书以英文版的形式介绍中国风俗习惯，配有彩图。

"The Listening Book " is about rediscovering the power oflistening as an instrument of self-discovery and personaltransformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to soundsand for making music, we can awaken and release our full creativepowers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on manyaspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to helpreaders appreciate the connection between sound, music, andeveryday life.

Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimonyof scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience asa prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined totake its place among the classics of jazz history. The work paystribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musiciansand composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cubanand American jazz throughout the twentieth century. The work begins with the first encounters between Cuban music andjazz around the turn of the last century. Acosta writes about thepresence of Cuban musicians in New Orleans and the “Spanish tinge”in early jazz from the city, the formation and spread of the firstjazz ensembles in Cuba, the big bands of the thirties, and theinception of “Latin jazz.” He explores the evolution of Bebop,Feeling, and Mambo in the forties, leading to the explosion ofCubop or Afro-Cuban jazz and the innovations of the legendarymusicians and composers Machito, Mario Bauzá, Dizzy