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。

“The standard of photography is absolutelyamazing.”— Practical Photography The third editionof Reuters: Our World Now captures the key events from2009 in more than 350 powerful photographs. Organized into foursections that represent the four quarters of the year, the imagescover the full range of global reporting: politics, commerce,conflict, the environment, natural disasters, faith andfestivities, entertainment, celebrity, and lifestyle. The photosoffer a fresh take on the year’s most memorable events as well asplenty of less-familiar stories. This completely new edition includes special “Witness” features:in-depth photo essays from around the world, many of them createdby local photographers with unique access and insight. The bookprovides an indispensable visual record of our times. 360 color and10 black-and-white photographs.

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.

Now in paperback, the fascinating, quirky, highly acclaimedbook about that indispensable object, the pencil. Petroski tracesits origins back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually andcharmingly about its development, and shows what the pencil canteach us about engineering and technology today.

One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced lastyear, this guide highlights several of the city's newest and mostinteresting governmental, residential and commercial buildings byarchitects such as Steven Holl, Renzo Piano and Kees van der Valk,and also showcases distinctive interior design. Included are shortprofiles of more than seventy buildings and colour photographs toaccompany each. This is an indispensable little guide in anattractively designed package that comes with a site map for easyuse by tourists and professionals alike.

本书的照片都是从国家地理学会超凡的馆藏摄影档案中精心挑选出来的，时间跨越了一个多世纪，反映的题材遍及地球上的每一个角落，也涉及了摄影艺术的每一个层面。这些照片既反映了一些*摄影大师观察生活的独特视角，也代表了我们人类某些共同的情感追求和人性的张扬。 The Collectors Seriesedition of "In Focus" is simply the existing book at a smaller trimsize. This magnificent collection of 280 photographs by many of theworld's greatest photographers tells the tale of portraitphotography over time in page after page of arresting images. Eachphotograph stands proudly on its own, yet taken together, they tella much more complex and subtle story of the ever-evolving art formin constant creative response to new ideas, new eras, and newtechnologies.

Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The NewFace of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists,venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebratesthe living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as theycontinue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this greatmusical legacy. In their own words, artists such as McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval,Diane Schuur, Terence Blanchard, Charlie Hunter, Nicholas Payton,George Benson, Maria Schneider, Christian McBride, Randy Brecker,Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Lovano, Lee Ritenour, and more than 100 othersshare intimately about their beginnings, musical training,inspiration, and hard-earned lessons, creating a fascinating mosaicof the current jazz community. Photographer Ned Radinsky contributes 40 amazing black-and-whiteportraits of these musicians doing what they do best—playing. Anappendix offers resources for jazz education; an exclusive readinglist; and the lowdown on those organizations and societies doingtheir par

Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal,and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettablecharacters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, whichtransformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, whichnearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait tolife, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to besaved.

In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of theselegendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggeringwealth of detail and unprecedented understanding. Each chapter gives us an extended history of onesong—the circumstances under which it was written and firstperformed—and then explores its musical and lyric content. Drawingon his vast knowledge of records and the careers of performingartists, Friedwald tells us who was responsible for making thesesongs famous and discusses in depth the performers who have lefttheir unique marks on them. He writes about variations inperformance style, about both classic and obscure versions of thesongs, about brilliantly original interpretations and ghastlytravesties. And then there’s the completely unexpected, like StanFreberg’s politically correct “Elderly Man River.” This is a book for all lovers of American songto explore, argue with, and savor.

The intimate story of one of the great American bands of ourtime, creators of the controversial masterpiece "Yankee HotelFoxtrot" When alt-country heroes-turned-rock-iconoclasts Wilcohanded in their fourth album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," to the band'slabel, Reprise, a division of Warner Brothers, fans looked forwardto the release of another challenging, genre-bending departure fromtheir previous work. The band aimed to build on previous sales andcritical acclaim with its boldest and most ambitious album yet, butwas instead urged by skittish Reprise execs to make the record more"radio friendly." When Wilco wouldn't give, they found themselveswithout a label. Instead, they used the Internet to introduce thealbum to their fans, and eventually sold the record to Nonesuch,another division of Warner. Wilco was vindicated when the albumdebuted at No. 13 on the "Billboard" charts and posted the band'sstrongest sales to date. "Wilco: Learning How to Die" traces theband's story to its deepest origins in Southern Illino

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whosesingle-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. Inthe course of his long career in the northern Italian city ofCremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments;approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by anysubsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Fabertraces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerlesscreations–five violins and a cello–and the one towering artist whobrought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulousdetective work, and an abiding passion for music, Faber takes usfrom the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, andfrom the breakthroughs of Beethoven’s last quartets to the firstphonographic recordings. This magnificent narrative invites us toshare the life, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of theworld’s most marvelous stringed instruments.

The first biography of the late Grammy-winning,Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Elliott Smith It is rare for arecording artist to move his fans so deeply that the news of hisdeath sparks instant tribute concerts worldwide. Elliott Smith wassuch an artist. On October 21st 2003, he was found dead in hisapartment from two stab wounds to the heart. But before his tragicdeath - which is still under investigation - came the solitarybeauty of Smith's music. Best-known for his heartrending song "MissMisery" from the Oscar-nominated "Good Will Hunting" soundtrack,Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie icon afterperforming at the 1998 Oscars. Sandwiched between Celine Dion andTrisha Yearwood and wearing an unlikely white tuxedo, he lookedmiserable - but many who witnessed his surreally beautifulperformance thought he put Dion's "My Heart Must Go On" to shame.His albums have since sold over half a million copies, with manycrediting his melody-based rock for the success of artists fromBelle Sebasti

Travel Sickness is a singular book project from Sheffield in theEnglish midlands which takes us on a surreal journey into the 21stcentury. Drawing inspiration from the messiness, violence andbeauty of the world around them together with the writings ofStephen Jones, DED have unfurled their vision and planted somethingnew. Innovatively, the book?s design is a literal and emotionalreaction to the text. The illustrations convey the fragmentedthoughts of Jack as he takes an unwanted and disturbing journey into his own sense of loss. Stephen Jones? bizarre narrativedescribes how absurd life can be in the new millennium. He usesconsumer goods, ads, themes and McPlaces as effective metaphors ofthe everyday. DED Ass. transfers these into breathtaking graphicillustrations. The result is an elegant and experimentalcombination of graphics and text, full of bittersweet irony andhumour. In 1991, Nic and Jon Daughtry founded DED Associates inSheffield. DED`s commitment has seen the company shoot into everycorner of the cr

In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocativeguide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's mostwidely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise ofthe classical recording industry from Caruso's first notes to theheyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrechtcompellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached itsend point-but this is not simply an expos? of decline and fall. Itis, for the first time, the full story of a minor art form,analyzing the cultural revolution wrought by Schnabel, Toscanini,Callas, Rattle, the Three Tenors, and Charlotte Church. It is thestory of how stars were made and broken by the record business; howa war criminal conspired with a concentration-camp victim to createa record empire; and how advancing technology, boardroom wars,public credulity and unscrupulous exploitation shaped the musicalbackdrop to our modern lives. The book ends with a suitable shrineto classical recording: the author's critical selectio

《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。

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。