This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China's accession to...(展开全部)

Close reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Ma...(展开全部)

Close reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Ma...(展开全部)

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)

A guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times. Covering topi...(展开全部)

杰弗里·蒂尔（Geoffrey Till），海上战略研究的权威，现任英国三军联合指挥和参谋学院伦敦国王学院科贝特海洋政策研究中心主任。他的作品有《空权和皇家海军》（Air Power and the Royal Navy）、《核时代的海上战略》（Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age），以及最新的《英国海军思想史》（The Development of British Naval Thinking）。

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States' maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and a...(展开全部)

杰弗里·蒂尔（Geoffrey Till），海上战略研究的权威，现任英国三军联合指挥和参谋学院伦敦国王学院科贝特海洋政策研究中心主任。他的作品有《空权和皇家海军》（Air Power and the Royal Navy）、《核时代的海上战略》（Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age），以及最新的《英国海军思想史》（The Development of British Naval Thinking）。

In this multidisciplinary approach Pasi Väliaho draws from science and philosophy to offer a compelling study of how the medium of film has shaped our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Väliaho examines key films from the early twentieth century, tracing the role that various arrangements of movement have played in the development of corporeality, perception, a...(展开全部)

Hailed as "the guide to capitalism," the "New York Times" bestseller "Wealth and Poverty" by George F. Gilder is one of the most famous economic books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this influential classic, Gilder explains and makes the case for supply-side economics, proves the moral superiority of free-market capitalism, and...(展开全部)