What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

James Elkins
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Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium.

In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they will look.

Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Is is like nothing you have ever read about art.

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Oil Painting

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莫奈: 印象派 (Monet)

戴維.史彭斯 (David Spence) 著

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莫奈所處時代，世界有何不同？當時的社會與藝術如何影響他的創作？莫奈的親人和相知對他的藝術有何影響？從他的作品中追尋愛情、生活和死亡的線索。展示繪畫的真正內涵，理解畫作講述的莫奈的情況，了解他的繪畫方法。了解莫奈在世時人們對其作品的評價，以及作品對後世的影響。

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Creator: Claude Monet

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Monet - Music of His Time

In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

Terry Orlick
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Written in an easy-to-understand, instructive style, this second edition of In Pursuit of Excellence is the supplemental text for courses that cover basic sport psychology techniques. It covers the psychological concepts of concentration, winning, losing, and competing successfully. This sport performance book by internationally recognised sport psychologist Terry Orlick has undergone a complete revitalization. Better organized for easier reading, the second edition includes dozens of new examples taken from Orlick's real-life experiences with champion athletes and their coaches.

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倫敦的叫賣聲: 英國隨筆選譯

約瑟夫。阿狄生 (Joseph Addison) 等著;劉炳善譯
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《倫敦的叫賣聲》是約瑟夫．艾迪生著名的一篇散文，作為本書書名，文中描述18世紀當時倫敦街頭平凡無奇的景象，栩栩如生就在眼前，賣報紙、賣點心、賣牛奶…等吆喝聲，彷彿也吆喝著讀者來一場新舊世紀英國文學饗宴！

十六篇英國散文作品 ，橫跨新古典時期至現代主義時期的14位名家，喜愛英美文學的讀者一定不感陌生。透過劉炳善的譯注與介紹，帶領讀者一起潛入文人內心世界。

像是《格列佛遊記》的斯威夫特，親眼見到愛爾蘭人民遭受殖民者迫害，促成此篇震撼人心的政論名作《育嬰芻議》。蘭姆在《讀書漫談》一文中，從一位熱愛文學者的角度漫談各類書籍與閱讀之樂。夏綠蒂．勃朗特記錄了勃朗特三姊妹於文學創作艱辛的過程，文情並茂。伍爾夫作品用筆調輕鬆的散文，描繪其他作家與作品的文章等，發人深省。還有其他膾炙人口的作品，各具特色，歡迎跟著吆喝聲一起進來觀賞。

本書特色 1.本書精選英國散文16篇，多是出自18-20世紀文學大師的佳作，從斯威夫特到吳爾夫的二百年間14位英國作家。 2.按英國文學分期來看，本書囊括了新古典、維多利亞與現代主義時期作品。 3.由專研英國文學劉炳善教授翻譯並專文介紹作者與其作品特色。 4.作品皆能反映出文人們豐富的情懷，或幽默略帶譏諷的語調，值得細細品味。

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London, England

Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business and Life: A Fable of Self-discovery

Stefan Swanepoel
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As a brutal business environment meets a soft economy, business leaders and managers are looking for sources of both inspiration and survival. This compelling new fable offers a riveting tale of life in Africa's Serengeti and what lessons it holds for today's beleaguered business people and struggling society.

The 1.5 million wildebeest rely on stubborn endurance and support from the herd to survive; the crocodile is opportunistic; the cheetah ruthlessly effective; the giraffe embodies grace, the lion a master strategist, the mongoose is a risk-taker, the elephant is an excellent communicator.

7 Questions This Book Tackles
1. Experiencing a challenge you wish to overcome?
2. Want to discover your hidden survival skills?
3. Still have a goal not yet achieved?
4. Interested to discover your instinctive strengths?
5. Can benefit from problem-solving thinking?
6. Know someone that has potential to excel?
7. Looking for a positive message to share?

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笑忘錄 (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

米蘭・昆德拉 (Milan Kundera) 著
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  《笑忘錄》一九七九年在法國出版，曾榮獲法國文壇最高榮譽之一的『梅第奇大獎』，是一部關於笑與忘、關於遺忘也關於布拉格、關於布拉格也關於天使們的小說。作品以1968年蘇聯軍隊入侵捷克斯洛伐克為時代背景，描寫了捷克不同階層知識分子的多舛命運。書中不同的章節一個接著一個，如同旅行的幾個不同階段，朝向某個主旋律的內在，朝向某種獨一無二情境的內在，而旅行的意涵已迷失在廣袤無垠的內在世界，我欲辯卻已忘言。作者在故事敘述當中，探討了人生中間記憶和遺忘的哲學關系；記憶，人們希望保持或者忘卻的內容，如同附帶歡娛和諷刺的笑一樣，是交相輝映的永恆主題。是米蘭•昆德拉奠定大師地位的關鍵代表作。

在這部批評界奉為具有超現實主義風格的現代派小說傑作中，昆德拉試圖打通小說、哲學和政治議論以及自傳之間的隔膜關系，籍以用罕見的政治正確的角度，探討人生、音樂、性、哲學、文學和政治等重大話題，用筆詼諧獨到，常常使閱讀者在沉重的閱讀中邂逅絕妙的幽默趣事，以致忍俊不禁。

小說在法國出版後引起西方輿論界高度關注，獲得當年法國最佳外國文學獎大獎。但是，它也給作者帶來了意想不到的災難——當時的捷克政府以此書在法國的非法出版為由，剝奪了昆德拉的捷克國籍。不過，這也從另一方面成就了昆德拉，使其成為國際馳名的小說家。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Czech Republic―Architecture and City Planning
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Place: Czechoslovakia [Historical Place]