A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization. All That Is Solid Melts into Airis widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes that swept up and transformed the lives of millions of people. Berman delves into the aesthetic and intellectual controve...(展开全部)

Marshall Berman's "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture. --This text refers to a...(展开全部)

马歇尔·伯曼（Marshall Berman） 任教于美国纽约市立大学，讲授政治理论和城市生活研究。他的另一部主要著作是《本真性政治学：激进政治学与现代社会的出现》。

Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. He suggests that film defined a unique gaze, not only because it recorded many of the century's...(展开全部)

Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought.

In contemporary debates, communication is variously invoked as a panacea for the problems of both democracy and love, as a dream of a new information society brought about by new technologies, and as a wistful ideal of human relations. How, and why, did communication come to shoulder the load it carries? In John Durham Peters's work, the teachings of Socrates and Jesus, the the...(展开全部)

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)

杜黑1869年5月30日，杜黑出生于意大利南部那不勒斯以北23公里处一个名叫卡塞塔的小镇。他出身于军人世家，家中几代都为萨伏依王室服务。由于受家庭熏陶，杜黑自幼立志继承父业，从军习武。他先是进入都灵军事工程学校学习，由于学习刻苦，成绩优异，1888年毕业时，被直接授予炮兵中尉军衔，时年19岁。后来，杜黑又进入陆军大学学习，研究有关现代战争的战略战术以及战争中的后勤问题。毕业后，他被派到陆军许多岗位上工作。无论在哪里，他都致力于科学技术与军事应用相结合。深厚的科技知识和军事知识功底，使他工作成绩十分突出，很快就晋升为上尉，并调到陆军参谋部工作。20世纪初，他受命参加研究意大利军队的机械化问题，预见到飞机在军事上将有重大的作用，从此走上了一条探索研究空军理论的坎坷人生之路。 1903年12月17日，美国莱特兄弟在北卡罗来纳州的基蒂霍克首次驾驶一架有动力的...(展开全部)

王德威 . 國立台灣大學外文系畢業，美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜校區比較文學博士。曾任教於國立台灣大學、美國哥倫比亞大學東亞系。現任美國哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系Edward C. Henderson講座教授。著有：《從劉鶚到王禎和：中國現代寫實小說散論》、《眾聲喧嘩：三○與八○年代的中國小說》、《閱讀當代小說：台灣．大陸．香港．海外》、《小說中國：晚清到當代的中文小說》、《想像中國的方法：歷史．小說．敘事》、《如何現代，怎樣文學？：十九、二十世紀中文小說新論》、《眾聲喧嘩以後：點評當代中文小說》、《跨世紀風華：當代小說20家》、《被壓抑的現代性：晚清小說新論》、《現代中國小說十講》、《歷史與怪獸》、Fictional Realism in Twentieth-century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen, Fi...(展开全部)