Although created to fulfill ephemeral needs, great works of graphic design often become memorable cultural icons representing the times and places of their origins. Design Literacy presents ninety-three "object lessons, " specific histories examining the contexts in which well-known, unknown, and anonymous works have made decisive contributions to the evolution of graphic desig...(展开全部)

This is an examination of how many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans. Harris traces the partial transition to written culture, demonstrating continued reliance on oral communication. He explores the role of literacy as an instrument of power, indispensable to builders of empires, and as a political weapon for the minority who could read a...(展开全部)

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

理查德•霍加特（Richard Hoggart，1918—2014），英国学者，主要治学领域为社会学、英语文学和文化研究，曾任伯明翰大学现代英语文学教授、伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院院长等职，也曾担任联合国教科文组织总干事助理。

Responding to the need she so clearly perceives, Ms. Dondis, a designer and teacher of broad experience, has provided a beginning text for art and design students and a basic text for all other students;those who do not intend to become artists or designers but who need to acquire the essential skills of understanding visual communication at a time when so much information is b...(展开全部)

"The UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture" series showcases fresh research approaches to global creative thinking, enterprise and innovation. The series links creative and digital media fields to law, education, business and technology. Online social networks, user-created content and participatory media are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and ...(展开全部)

The focus of Richard Rubinger's study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premodern population: the rural farming class. In this book-length historical exploration of the topic, the first in any language, Rubinger dispels the misconception that there are few materials available for the study of popular literacy in Japan. He analyzes a ri...(展开全部)