In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visua...(展开全部)

马克•费尔顿（Mark Felton），英国著名历史学家，剑桥安格利亚大学获历史学和英文学硕士，埃塞克斯大学获博士。现在上海大学任教。著有《柳浩太郎：德国和日本的水下秘密交易》《魔鬼实验室——记录日本731部队的罪恶行径》《午夜：二战中不为人知的伟大逃亡》《日本宪兵队秘史——亚洲战场上的谋杀、暴力和酷刑》等著作。《日本宪兵队秘史——亚洲战场上的谋杀、暴力和酷刑》曾入选日本具有影响力的英文报纸The Japan Times授予的2009年度最佳著作。

In this fascinating tour through cultural, global, economic, and business history, icon of the financial world Robert Menschel explores the phenomenon of crowd psychology and its effects on business and culture. Explaining how crowd psychology creates market bubbles and irrational exuberance, Menschel mines world history—from the rise of the Nazis in Germany, to the fanatical l...(展开全部)

In this fascinating tour through cultural, global, economic, and business history, icon of the financial world Robert Menschel explores the phenomenon of crowd psychology and its effects on business and culture. Explaining how crowd psychology creates market bubbles and irrational exuberance, Menschel mines world history—from the rise of the Nazis in Germany, to the fanatical l...(展开全部)

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease suffer...(展开全部)

David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public h...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Fear epidemics have plagued people for centuries, and in the past year Americans have weathered anthrax scares, fears of the end of good economic times and fears of terrorism. In his new book, Markets, Mobs & Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds, Robert Menschel, senior director of the Goldman Sachs Group, shows that, logically, it's "easy to co...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness . . " The Cost of Capitalism is a must-read and a thoroughly enjoyable one�for those who want to understand. the Crisis of 2008 and hammer out a new framework for decision making." . Jared L. Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University . "Readers who absorb the lessons of this book will be armed wit...(展开全部)

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are retur...(展开全部)

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative— like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just ...(展开全部)