A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more tha...(展开全部)

Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of As...(展开全部)

Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of As...(展开全部)

The Birth of Orientalism Urs App Winner of the 2012 Book Prize from the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres "A genuinely important book. It has the potential to change the way that we think about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European encounters with the East, and about how Eastern ideas deeply influenced the thought of formative Western thinkers."--Jonathan Silk,...(展开全部)

Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a...(展开全部)

In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately a...(展开全部)

In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately a...(展开全部)

日本のクリエイティブシーンを牽引し続ける奥山由之、デビューから12年間に渡る初のクライアントワーク集。 米津玄師、星野源、Mr.Children、あいみょん、RADWIMPSといったアーティストとのコラボレーション、ポカリスエットなどの広告写真、大河ドラマ『麒麟がくる』のメインビジュアル、『GINZA』『SWITCH』などのエディトリアルワーク、広瀬すず、菅田将暉、平手友梨奈、小松菜奈といった時代を象徴するアイコンのポートレートなど、その質と量に圧倒される奥山の仕事。個性的で唯一無二の世界観が500ページを超える大ボリュームの決定版としてまとまります。 2010年のデビュー以来、数々の写真集や展覧会で精力的に作品を発表し続け、写真新世紀優秀賞や、講談社出版文化賞を受賞。近年では、話題のMVやTVCMを数多く監督し、まさに現在のクリエイティブシーンを牽...(展开全部)

Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same? In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage , Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that...(展开全部)

Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same? In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage , Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that...(展开全部)