In just seven years (from 1950 through 1956), Grace Kelly made eleven feature films. They established her as one of the screen's iconic beauties, and as a performer of rare intelligence and wit. Donald Spoto, a personal friend of Kelly's in whom she confided, is in a unique position to tell the story of her transformation from convent girl from Philadelphia to last star of Holl...(展开全部)

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses. In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the th...(展开全部)

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

H. Stuart Hughes was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the modern intellectual history of Europe. His monumental work, Consciousness and Society, was a benchmark. The original publication of the book marks the first time an author undertook with such power or so broad a scope the canvas used by the generation of 1890s Europe. When it was first published, Consciousness and Soci...(展开全部)

托马斯·索维尔（Thomas Sowell），美国当代杰出的经济学家、最具影响力的社会评论家。先后在康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、哥伦比亚大学以及斯坦福大学讲授经济学课程，现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所公共政策高级研究员。 托马斯·索维尔在经济学和广泛的人文社科领域均有重要建树。他撰写了包括《基础经济学》、《被掩盖的经济真相》、《美国种族简史》在内的30余部著作，多本被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文和日文出版，其中多本是亚马逊网上书店的超级畅销书。他还在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》等主流媒体上发表了大量文章，并担任多家著名媒体的专栏作家，广泛讨论各种社会问题。 他获得的荣誉包括由美国企业研究所颁发的、备受尊敬的“博伊尔奖”（Francis Boyer Award）、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、布莱德雷基金奖等...(展开全部)

Law and Society offers a contemporary overview of the structure and function of legal institutions, along with a lively discussion of criminal and civil law and their impact on society. Author Matthew Lippman draws on insights from over thirty years of teaching to develop an interdisciplinary approach that introduces readers to both the influence of law on society and the influ...(展开全部)

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by s...(展开全部)

After his earlier book Discourse and Context, also published by Cambridge University Press, Teun A. van Dijk in this study presents the second part of his new multidisciplinary theory of context. The main thesis of this theory is that the influence of society on discourse is not direct, as is postulated for instance in sociolinguistics, but cognitively mediated by subjective me...(展开全部)

Media and Society is an established title, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. The book is organised into three key areas of debate: media and society, media production and mediations. Each new edition of the book has sought to be a textbook that encompasses the fi...(展开全部)