When "Adorned in Dreams" was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none'. Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or to subvert it and this brand new edition of her book follows recent...(展开全部)

Recent experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This intriguing book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Caroline Evans analyzes the work of experimental designers, the images of fashi...(展开全部)

Recent experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This intriguing book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Caroline Evans analyzes the work of experimental designers, the images of fashi...(展开全部)

This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes uses the province of Guizhou to examine the Chinese tourist industry as an exampl...(展开全部)

The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, technology, and economics. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that today powerful technologies ha...(展开全部)

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.

迈克尔·R·所罗门，美国圣约瑟夫大学人类科学学院消费者研究中心教授，致力于消费者行为和消费心理研究，在该领域做出了杰出的贡献。所罗门教授的研究兴趣包括：消费者行为与生活方式问题、网上研究方法学、产品的象征方面、时尚、装饰与形象心理学以及服务营销。 所罗门教授是行为科学/时尚文献中被引用最多的前15位学者之一，也是广告和营销领域中10个最多产的研究者之一。 南希·J·拉博尔特，哲学博士，旧金山州立大学服装设计和营销学教授，同时兼任消费者和家庭研究/营养学系主任一职，拉博尔特博士同时在南伊利诺伊斯大学、玛丽格罗夫学院和旧金山州立大学讲授时尚消费者行为和时尚营销学课程长达30多年。