The first edition of Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contrejour, and included photographs from Salgado's numerous trips through Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. The Brazil-born, Paris-based photographer traveled extensively in Latin America between 1977 and 1984 to document the shifting religious and political...(展开全部)

The first edition of Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contrejour, and included photographs from Salgado's numerous trips through Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. The Brazil-born, Paris-based photographer traveled extensively in Latin America between 1977 and 1984 to document the shifting religious and political...(展开全部)

With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened first world' United States and Canada, and less privileged Latin America'. He shows us why it is impossible to understand the history of North, Central and South America in isolation. From the emergence of the first human civilisations throu...(展开全部)

默里•罗斯巴德((Murray N. Rothbard, 1926-1995)， 美国经济学家、历史学家、自然法理论家，奥地利经济学派的代表人物。在哥伦比亚大学取得学士、硕士和博士学位，师承约瑟夫•朵夫曼（Joseph Dorfman）。生前主要担任内华达大学经济学S. J. Hall讲座杰出教授。他曾任米塞斯研究院（Ludwig von Mises Institute）学术事务副会长，《奥地利经济学评论》（Review of Austrian Economics）的编辑，也曾长期参与纽约大学举办的米塞斯研讨会。主要著作有：《1819年大恐慌》（The Panic of 1819）、《人、经济与国家》（Man, Economy, and State）、《美国大萧条》（America’s Great Depression）、 《权力与市场》（Power...(展开全部)

The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye exam...(展开全部)

默里•罗斯巴德((Murray N. Rothbard, 1926-1995)， 美国经济学家、历史学家、自然法理论家，奥地利经济学派的代表人物。在哥伦比亚大学取得学士、硕士和博士学位，师承约瑟夫•朵夫曼（Joseph Dorfman）。生前主要担任内华达大学经济学S. J. Hall讲座杰出教授。他曾任米塞斯研究院（Ludwig von Mises Institute）学术事务副会长，《奥地利经济学评论》（Review of Austrian Economics）的编辑，也曾长期参与纽约大学举办的米塞斯研讨会。主要著作有：《1819年大恐慌》（The Panic of 1819）、《人、经济与国家》（Man, Economy, and State）、《美国大萧条》（America’s Great Depression）、 《权力与市场》（Power...(展开全部)

The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye exam...(展开全部)

America’s Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked to produce the official U.S. Army video game, America’s Army. Allen uncovers the met...(展开全部)

This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one "ism" to another, Edward Sullivan adopts a comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the Caribbean, Central, and South America. By considering the ...(展开全部)

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkabl...(展开全部)