达拉斯·W.斯迈思(1907—1992)，美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校经济学博士，北美著名传播政治经济学学者。他于1943年被任命为美国联邦通信委员会首席经济学家，后就职于伊利诺伊大学传播研究所。20世纪60年代，斯迈思移居加拿大，先后在萨斯喀彻温大学和西蒙菲莎大学任教。他提出了“受众商品论”“文化依附”等学说，培养并影响了几代传播政治经济学学者，包括丹·席勒、赵月枝等。他的学术代表作包括《依附之路：传播、资本主义、意识和加拿大》（Dependency Road: Communications, Capitalism, Consciousness， and Canada）、《逆时针：传播的各种视角》（Counterclockwise: Perspectives on Communication）等。斯迈思十分关注第三世界国家的发展实践，尤其是中国的社...(展开全部)

It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recen...(展开全部)

It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recen...(展开全部)

"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening...(展开全部)

H. Stuart Hughes was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the modern intellectual history of Europe. His monumental work, Consciousness and Society, was a benchmark. The original publication of the book marks the first time an author undertook with such power or so broad a scope the canvas used by the generation of 1890s Europe. When it was first published, Consciousness and Soci...(展开全部)

In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the case for the relevance of theoretical and experimental results in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence for t...(展开全部)

H. Stuart Hughes was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the modern intellectual history of Europe. His monumental work, Consciousness and Society, was a benchmark. The original publication of the book marks the first time an author undertook with such power or so broad a scope the canvas used by the generation of 1890s Europe. When it was first published, Consciousness and Soci...(展开全部)

Williams's fascinating investigation into forms of communication as they stood in 1962 - computers, radio, television, printing, photography, film - remains remarkably relevant today. The idea that reality is primary, and that communication of that reality secondary, is debunked - if we take the view that there is life, and then afterwards accounts of it, we degrade art and lea...(展开全部)

Williams's fascinating investigation into forms of communication as they stood in 1962 - computers, radio, television, printing, photography, film - remains remarkably relevant today. The idea that reality is primary, and that communication of that reality secondary, is debunked - if we take the view that there is life, and then afterwards accounts of it, we degrade art and lea...(展开全部)