霍华德·贝克尔（Howard S.Becker)，1928年出生，美国著名社会学家，芝加哥学派，符号互动论和标签理论的代表人物，研究领域横跨教育社会学、越轨社会学、艺术社会学、社会学方法等。

A paleoartist is an illustrator who specialises in the science and art of reconstructing ancient animals and their world. In "Dinosaur Art," ten of the top contemporary paleoartists reveal a selection of their work and exclusively discuss their working methods and distinct styles. Filled with breathtaking artwork - some never before seen - and cutting edge paleontology, this...(展开全部)

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

米歇尔·罗尔布朗谢（ Michel Lorblanchet) 旧石器时代艺术研究领域的重要专家。曾担任法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）研究负责人、澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民研究所研究顾问。他开创了复制远古艺术的实验性方法及测定艺术年代的科学方法。 保罗·巴恩 (Paul Bahn) 英国考古学家，研究方向为原始艺术。主要著作有：入选牛津通识读本的《考古学的过去与未来》（Archaeology：A Very Short Introduction），被视为岩画艺术入门必读的《冰河时代的图像》（Images of the Ice Age）等。同时与他人合著了多部广受欢迎的考古学书籍，其中《考古学：理论、方法与实践》（Archaeology：Theories, Methods and Practice）是极具影响力的畅销教材。

This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - "produce" a work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this collective activity. The book is ...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amidst tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, n...(展开全部)

City Worlds presents both an overview and the core of the argument in the Understanding Cities series. Using an integrated and interactive text City Worlds draws on our spatial imaginations to prompt a distinctive understanding of cities.

2007年的新版本