Presenting a mesmerizing picture both of British intellectual life in the 1940's and ‘50's and the mental, emotional, and cultural formation of a man destined to transform many aspects of that world over the next 40 years, Episodes is both a gripping story and a vividly analytic tour de force. From early childhood in Cardiff and the valleys of South Wales to school and adoles...(展开全部)

Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices. He demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system. Index.

Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices. He demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system. Index.

When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few of these countries been able to sustain growth over decades? Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes seeks to answer these questions and many more through a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations. Economic growth...(展开全部)

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernism, Clark argues, was an extreme answer to an extreme condition - the one Max Weber summed up as "the disenchantment of the world"....(展开全部)

以新马克思主义艺术史家闻名于当代美术界的T.J.克拉克（Timothy J.Clark, 1943- ）早年就学于剑桥大学圣约翰学院，30岁在伦敦大学考陶尔德艺术研究院获得美术史博士学位，同年出版《人民的形象：库尔贝与1848年革命》与《绝对的资产阶级：1848至1851年间的法国艺术家与政治》，立刻被认为是英语国家“新艺术史”的杰作，一举奠定了他作为一位国际型学者的地位。在英国多所大学担任教职后，年仅37岁的他就成为了美国哈佛大学艺术史教授。现为伯克莱加州大学现代艺术校级教授。除上述两部成名作，尚有《现代生活的画像：马奈及其追随者艺术中的巴黎》，从而合成其著名的“新艺术史”三部曲。另著有《告别观念》（2001）及《瞥见死神》（2008）等。

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernism, Clark argues, was an extreme answer to an extreme condition - the one Max Weber summed up as "the disenchantment of the world"....(展开全部)

When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end?...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿（Robert Darnton） 欧洲文化史专家 ，1939年出生于纽约，普林斯顿大学教授，著名欧洲文化史专家。他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖，包括美国的麦克阿瑟奖奖金、美国的国家图书评论奖；以及法国的美第奇奖提名。本书为他赢得1979年美国历史学会的Leo Gershoy奖。

When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end?...(展开全部)