With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined t...(展开全部)

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflex...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

钱乘旦，男，汉族，1949年生，江苏金坛人。 高中就读于江苏省四大名校之一的南京师范大学附属中学，1973年参加高考，考入南京大学英语系。1985年于南京大学历史系获博士学位后，曾赴哈佛大学和爱丁堡大学作博士后。现任北京大学历史系教授、博士生导师、国务院学位委员会历史学科组成员、国家社会科学基金专家评审组成员、教育部社会科学委员会委员、中国英国史研究会会长、英国皇家历史学会通讯会士，澳门大学历史学系学兼职教授等职。2003年11月曾与齐世荣教授一起向中央政治局第九次集体学习作《15世纪以来世界主要国家发展历史考察》的专题讲解。 学科专长及研究方向 英国史；世界史；现代化历史比较；西方文化史。 目前承当的科研项目 主持211项目“英国及英联邦国家现代化研究”，985项目“英国及发达国家现代化研究”，国家“十五”社科基金项目“帝国解体与当代资本主义”。

Set in Williams' New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Queen Miriamele as threats to their kingdom loom... The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions. Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger f...(展开全部)

This new exciting book includes more than 170 previously unseen ‘ghost signs’ that have been fortunately captured by photography over t he past six to seven years through the cracks of the rapid urban regeneration in Shanghai. It is produced by The Type and three local photographers who have been tracking the ghost signs throughout Shanghai — Colleague Dong, Jiayu Shi and Jianw...(展开全部)

Unique showcase exploring the use of signs and symbols for visual communication across design disciplines The latest in the highly collectable Communicating with Pattern series, Signs and Symbols showcases stunning examples of designs that incorporate all manner of signs, symbols, and glyphs, explaining how they can be used in contemporary design to communicate a variety of mes...(展开全部)