There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting and pitching to capture an uncanny vantage. But with the unfolding, contested landscape of drone development and proliferating drone use, how is this disruptive technology changing our understanding of war, culture, and ecology? This edited collectio...(展开全部)

Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes—material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception—to navigate how and why the material world has proven...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(展开全部)

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell’s now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key...(展开全部)

The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems – now in full colour – offers students and practitioners a review of the ecological sciences. The previous editions of this book earned the authors the prestigious ‘Exceptional Life-time Achievement Award’ of the British Ecological Society – the aim for the fifth edition is not only to maintain sta...(展开全部)

During the 1990s there have been changes in the ecological landscape. There is increased awareness of the importance of scale, the role of disturbance, the necessity for conservation, the potential for restoration, and the power of genetics in understanding relationships among organisms. Building on traditional foundations - evolution and adaptation, energy flow, population and...(展开全部)

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Frien...(展开全部)

"Sacred Ecology" examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. This second edition is e...(展开全部)

Theoretical Ecology: concepts and applications continues the authoritative and established sequence of theoretical ecology books initiated by Robert M. May which helped pave the way for ecology to become a more robust theoretical science, encouraging the modern biologist to better understand the mathematics behind their theories. This latest instalment builds on the legacy of i...(展开全部)