In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world...(展开全部)

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world...(展开全部)

From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured...(展开全部)

From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured...(展开全部)

In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals' bodies to fit a modern, industrial design. Chicago meatpackers partnered with land-grant university professors to create the International—a spectacle on the scale of a world's fair—with the intention of setting the standard for animal quality...(展开全部)

A new book by Dave Morley, one of the leading authors on the media list. This new book aims to intervene in some of the key debates in the field of media and cultural studies. It is structured into thematic sections addressing questions of postmodernity and postcoloniality; issues for, and the future of, media and cultural studies; theory and methodology; and television as an o...(展开全部)

A new book by Dave Morley, one of the leading authors on the media list. This new book aims to intervene in some of the key debates in the field of media and cultural studies. It is structured into thematic sections addressing questions of postmodernity and postcoloniality; issues for, and the future of, media and cultural studies; theory and methodology; and television as an o...(展开全部)

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and ce...(展开全部)

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and ce...(展开全部)

巴里·布赞：英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系荣誉教授、外交政策智库“国际事务、外交与战略研究中心”（LSE IDEAS）高级研究员、英国社会科学院院士，是国际关系“英国学派”的代表人物，他的代表作包括：《世界历史中的国际体系》（与理查德·利特尔合著）、《地区安全复合体与国际安全结构》（与奥利·维夫合著）、《从国际社会到世界社会》、《国际安全研究的演化》（与琳娜·汉森合著）、《英国学派理论导论》等。 乔治·劳森：英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系副教授，他聚焦于国际关系与历史社会学之间的交叉研究，著有《协商的革命》，主编有《全球1989》（与克里斯·阿姆布拉斯特、迈克尔·考克斯合著）。