How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation to make a case for por...(展开全部)

How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation to make a case for por...(展开全部)

Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. Giulian...(展开全部)

This book presents a counter-argument to the widely held view that the Japanese have believed that they are a homogeneous nation since the Meiji period. Eiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific War, but only after the end of the war. The study covers a large range of areas, including archaeol...(展开全部)

Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before: the cinepoem, the tape-recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music-video poem, the online sign-...(展开全部)

Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before: the cinepoem, the tape-recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music-video poem, the online sign-...(展开全部)

Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? And why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, "Rice as Self" examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conce...(展开全部)

大贯惠美子（Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney），威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校人类学系教授，以历史人类学、象征人类学见长。早年研究底特律的华人，后转向阿伊努人，再转向日本人。美国艺术与科学院院士，多次获古根海姆等其他学术奖。主要作品有：《神风特攻队日记：反思日本学生兵》（2006）；《神风特攻队、樱花与民族主义：日本历史上美学的军国主义化》（2002）；《作为自我的稻米：日本人穿越时间的身份认同》（1993）；《穿越时间的文化：人类学的路径》（主编，1990）；《作为镜子的猴子：日本历史与仪式的转化》（1987）；《当代日本的疾病与文化：人类学的观点》（1984）；《萨哈林岛阿伊努人的疾病与治疗：一个象征解释》（1981）等。 石峰，人类学博士，贵州师范大学历史与政治学院教授。

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。