In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. Heywood examines the different ways in which people have thought about childhood as a stage of life, the relationships of children with their families and peers, and the experiences of young people...(展开全部)

【美】安德鲁•戈登 （Andrew Gordon） 美国哈佛大学历史学教授、现代日本史研究专家，曾任哈佛大学历史系主任及赖肖尔日本研究中心主任，主要研究领域为现代日本的政治史和社会史。 著述、编写及翻译有多部重要著作，2003年出版的《现代日本史：从德川时代到21世纪》已成为欧美高校的核心教科书，并持续修订，成为检验学术研究进展的黄金标准，被译成中文、日文和韩文等近20种语言。他的另一本专著《战前日本的劳工与帝国民主》（Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan）荣获美国历史学会费正清奖。他的新著《制造消费者:现代日本的缝纫机》（Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan）已于近期出版。 【译者简介】 李朝津 早年就读于台湾大学及香港...(展开全部)

A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhood—literary and philosophical—and the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the history of pediatrics and newborn care and thei...(展开全部)

Table of Contents for A Tender Voyage List of Figures Chronological Table of China's Dynasties Preface Introduction: Children and Childhood in Traditional China 1. Physical Conditions 1. Treatment of Children 2. Newborn Care 3. Nursing and Infant Feeding 2. Social Life 3. Modes of Upbringing 4. Domestic Bond 5. The Emotional World 4. Multiplicity 6. Girlhood 7. Concepts and Rea...(展开全部)

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, including Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable diff...(展开全部)

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus , Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the ...(展开全部)

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young composer as an anomaly risks minimizing his impact. In this book, Adeline Mueller examines how Mozart shaped the social and cultural reev...(展开全部)

作者 尼尔·波兹曼（Neil Postman，1931—2003），世界著名的媒介文化研究者和批评家，是继麦克卢汉之后世界最重要的媒介文化研究学者之一，他在纽约大学首创了媒介生态学专业。他认为强势媒介能够以一种隐蔽却强大的暗示力量重新定义现实世界，甚至塑造一个时代的文 化精神，人们实际上是生存在媒介所制造的巨大隐喻世界中而不自知，因此发展出了“媒介即隐喻”的理论。波兹曼出版过20余部著作，《娱乐至死》和《童年的消逝》是他的两部代表作，已被译成多种文字出版。 译者 吴燕莛，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学新闻硕士，现任教于上海外国语大学传媒学院。

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully. Simon finds a job i...(展开全部)

<STRONG>The Sociology of Childhood</STRONG> is the <STRONG>Second Edition</STRONG> of a text that has been universally acclaimed as the best book on the subject available today. It is the only text that thoroughly covers children and childhood from a sociological perspective. The second edition retains the same quality coverage of social theories of childhood, the consideration...(展开全部)