* What is the relationship between youth culture and popular music? * How have they evolved since the second world war? * What can we learn from a global perspective? In this lively and accessible text, Andy Bennett presents a comprehensive cultural, social and historical overview of post-war popular music genres, from rock 'n' roll and psychedelic pop, through punk and heavy m...(展开全部)

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way...(展开全部)

Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms ...(展开全部)

作者 布赖恩·M.费根（Brian M. Fagan） 世界顶级的考古学家，也是国际公认的世界史前史研究权威。 费根出生于英国伯明翰，曾在剑桥大学彭布罗克学院学习考古学，是美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有多部畅销书和考古学专业大学教科书，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》。曾获美国考古学协会“公共教育奖”“主席嘉许奖”，专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”。目前国内已引进的作品包括《世界史前史》《考古学入门》《床的人类史》《小冰河时代》《考古学与史前文明》《掠夺尼罗河》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《大暖化》等。 译者 乔苏婷 历史学博士，毕业于北京大学考古文博学院。爱好文字工作，曾担任人文领域公众交流平台栏目编辑。

In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's Clash of Cultures, the best-selling author offers a series of fascinating cas...(展开全部)

作者 布赖恩·M.费根（Brian M. Fagan） 世界顶级的考古学家，也是国际公认的世界史前史研究权威。 费根出生于英国伯明翰，曾在剑桥大学彭布罗克学院学习考古学，是美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有多部畅销书和考古学专业大学教科书，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》。曾获美国考古学协会“公共教育奖”“主席嘉许奖”，专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”。目前国内已引进的作品包括《世界史前史》《考古学入门》《床的人类史》《小冰河时代》《考古学与史前文明》《掠夺尼罗河》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《大暖化》等。 译者 乔苏婷 历史学博士，毕业于北京大学考古文博学院。爱好文字工作，曾担任人文领域公众交流平台栏目编辑。

Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature'. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms ...(展开全部)

英国作家、记者和撰稿人。三十年来专门从各个角度研究吸毒与成瘾以及摇滚、爵士和蓝调等流行音乐的关系。其作品包括为年轻人撰写的流行乐手的传记和同行评议的学术文章。他是MOJO 及其他英国杂志的固定撰稿人。目前担任英国毒品咨询慈善机构DrugScope 的通讯信息主管。 代表作有《杰克•布鲁斯：麻醉自己》（Jack Bruce : composing himself ）、《吉米• 亨德里克斯：电子吉普赛》（Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy ）、《埃里克•克拉普顿：迷失蓝调》（Eric Clapton: lost inthe blues ）、《格雷汉姆•邦德：强大的幽灵》（Graham Bond: the mighty shadow ）、《亚历克西斯• 科纳传》（Alexis Korner :the biography ）、《陨落的明...(展开全部)

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the six...(展开全部)