Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a popular and much-translated historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. Art, he believes, was central to human development, more so than writing and even language. This history begins with the earliest rock paintings around 30,000 BC and takes us right up to the present day. E.H. Gombrich's legendary b...(展开全部)

Book Description In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, he draws our...(展开全部)

The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term 'the new art history'. He distinguishes between these and earlie...(展开全部)

Modern art, reflecting and defining new intellectual, scientific and technological developments, has radically extended the conventional media of sculpture and painting. Following innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarc...(展开全部)

In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there could be a “science” of history was the subject of much and varied debate. The methodological problems surrounding historical knowledge that were debated throughout this period concerned not only scientific history, but the social sciences as well, and sociolo...(展开全部)

The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to hi...(展开全部)

马克斯·韦伯(1864-920)是现时代最杰出的社会学家，被视为20世纪最伟大的头脑之一。他在政治社会学、法律社会学、宗教社会学等若干领域的系统建树，他的方法论体系，他的大规模比较研究，至今仍是无与伦比。 德国的韦伯成为世界的韦伯，很大程度上是由于《新教伦理与资本主义精神》、《社会学文集》和《经济与社会》的广泛影响，而《社会学文集》自20世纪问世以来，对于初步但比较全面地了解韦伯思想就一直是公认的权威读本。 阎克文，山东大学当代社会主义研究所兼职教授，中国政法大学社会学院兼职教授。译著有《民主新论》、《君主论》、《贡斯当政治论文选》、《个人主义》、《韦伯的新教伦理》、《韦伯传》、《新教伦理与资本主义精神》、《经济与社会》、《韦伯政治著作选》等。

Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.

An introduction to the work of the greatest German sociologist and a key figure in the development of present-day sociological thought.