▼作者简介 肖恩•厄舍 Shaun Usher 信件与清单的爱好者，1978年出生于英国圣奥尔本斯，现居英国曼彻斯特。他于2009年建立了博客“信件陈列馆”（Letters of Note），以在线博物馆的形式收集各式各样的信件。厄舍的第一部作品于2013年出版，盘踞《周日泰晤士报》畅销榜六周，并售出了多国版权。在收集信件的过程中，厄舍也发现了很多有趣的清单。2011年，他建立了博客“清单陈列馆”（Lists of Note），展示收集到的各种有趣的清单。

Book Description The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of...(展开全部)

Book Description The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of...(展开全部)

'The book is essentially for a student of mass communication or may be of interest to the communications expert into communications reserach, theory or operations research. The author addresses a specific "audience" and does it to perfection with a simple very readable presentation' - The Economic Times Denis McQuail provides a coherent and succinct account of the concept of 'm...(展开全部)

The word audience has long been familiar as the collective term for the "receivers" in the model of mass communication process (source, channel, message, receiver, effect). It is a term that is understood by media practitioners and theorists alike and has entered into everyday usage; however, there is much room for differences of meaning, misunderstandings, and theoretical conf...(展开全部)

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In "Rhinoceros" we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. "The Chairs" depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life t...(展开全部)

An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that th...(展开全部)