How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."
"But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings... he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

几乎无人知道Visa是世界上最大的商业组织。它的营业额是沃尔玛的十倍；保守一点讲，其市场价值是通用电器的两倍多。世界上最大的商业组织怎么能同时又是世界上最隐形的一个商业机构？维萨相对隐形的原因与其成功的原因是同等重要的。在本书中，Visa的创始人，第一任CEO迪伊.霍克带领读者分享该组织成功的奥秘。