本书以摄影大师的作品为中心，以世界摄影160余年的历史为主线，阐述了西方摄影家们的众多流派与众多风格。摄影术起源于欧洲，在西方的发展史上已经形成比较清晰的脉络，作者在此基础观照西方摄影史，本书主要论述的就是西方摄影的发展概况，也包括在摄影发展史上具有举足轻重意义的美国摄影。本书通过流派与大师作品的线索，共介绍了100多位摄影家和他们的200多幅作品，所选图片除了一些人们比较熟悉的经典之作以外，尽量编入一些在国内摄影界还未曾展示过的艺术精品，具有较高的欣赏和收藏价值。

《20世纪60年代西方时尚符号》虽然涉猎西方60年代意识形态的各个方面摇滚、电影、时尚、摄影、艺术、主义、性解放等，但是关于西方60年代的书的核心词也就是三个：开放、自由、酷。在此书中，我们无意去评判那到底是一个好的年代还是坏的年代。关键是，它激情地存在过，像金斯堡的那首长诗一样嚎叫过。 这是一本关于西方20世纪60年代的文化札记。“青年们杂乱无章地迷恋于马克思和神秘学、毛泽东和《易经》、政治和大麻、革命和摇滚乐。普遍的政治动荡在艺术中不仅打开了性解放之门，而且打开了实验普遍复兴之门。”研究60年代的美国哥伦比亚大学英语系教授莫里斯·迪克斯坦在《伊甸园之门》中如是说。 对于来不及赶上那个时代的后来者来说，读此书也许会让他们发出惊艳的呼声，甚至有可能改变一个中国青年的人生，而对于那些生于60年代的人，如今的时代中坚们而言，读此书也是另一种意义上的怀旧。

矗立在街边的每一座建筑都有它与众不同的特点，不管是欧洲文艺复兴时期的古典建筑，还是现代经典建筑，都有不一样的艺术感和不一样的灵魂。喜欢建筑或者从事在建筑行业的朋友们可以从《解读建筑》中找到关于建筑您想要了解的内容，因为《解读建筑》中所介绍的建筑风格迥异，从大教堂到摩天大楼、从古典到当代，涵盖了所有重要的建筑类型和风格，而且每种建筑类型都配有丰富的照片和注释详细的绘画，让您一目了然的深入认识各种不同的建筑细节。

The only music appreciation text on the market to include listening exercises throughout the book, LISTENING TO MUSIC, Sixth Edition, masterfully develops and refines your listening skills. Acclaimed for unparalleled clarity and accuracy, using Wright will help you study efficiently, do well on your tests and quizzes, and learn to enjoy many kinds of music. Wright covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern as well as popular music and its impact on musical globalization, and music from the Far East, the Near East and Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, drawing comparisons between Western and non-Western musical cultures. Learning to listen critically is at the heart of a music appreciation course, and Wright gives you the tools to develop and sharpen your listening skills in three important ways: First, Listening to Music is the only text to include detailed Listening Exercises throughout the book. These exercises, which ask questions just like the ones your instructor is likely to ask in quizzes, will help you focus on important musical elements and episodes and do well in the course. Second, a free "Introduction to Listening" CD is packaged with each copy of the text. This CD plays all of the music discussed in the music fundamentals chapters in Part I of the text to help you get a good start in the first few weeks of class. Third, interactive Active Listening Guides and listening quizzes, with streaming music for most of the selections in the text, are available on the Schirmer Cengage Learning website and multimedia eBook. 点击链接进入中文版： 听音乐音乐欣赏教程(附光盘1张)

We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before. In "The End of Power," award-winning columnist and former "Foreign Policy" editor Moises Naim illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research, Naim shows how the antiestablishment drive of micropowers can topple tyrants, dislodge monopolies, and open remarkable new opportunities, but it can also lead to chaos and paralysis. Naim deftly covers the seismic changes underway in business, religion, education, within families, and in all matters of war and peace. Examples abound in all walks of life: In 1977, eighty-nine countries were ruled by autocrats while today more than half the world's population lives in democracies. CEO's are more constrained and have shorter tenures than their predecessors. Modern tools of war, cheaper and more accessible, make it possible for groups like Hezbollah to afford their own drones. In the second half of 2010, the top ten hedge funds earned more than the world's largest six banks combined. Those in power retain it by erecting powerful barriers to keep challengers at bay. Today, insurgent forces dismantle those barriers more quickly and easily than ever, only to find that they themselves become vulnerable in the process. Accessible and captivating, Naim offers a revolutionary look at the inevitable end of power--and how it will change your world.

《西方美术理论文选(套装上下册)》收录了自公元前5世纪古希腊至20世纪70年代一百四十余位艺术家，艺术批评家的相关论述，按照历史的系统介绍了西方的美术理论。解读这些文字，可使我们从全新的角度深入艺术家的内心世界，也可使我们以更清晰的目光，从更高的层次来了解认识西方美术发展史。