Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s' theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory, politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation, and humor. Radically redefining dialectical thought and post-Marxist politics, it takes an...(展开全部)

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpres...(展开全部)

Here is a colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of the commerce conducted at the celebrated Frankfurt Book Fair all the way from its humble beginnings in the Middle Ages. Through the ensuing centuries, the fortunes of the fair have waxed and waned. Following the Second World War, a spirit of renewal was engendered that has been maintained ever since. In recent yea...(展开全部)

罗德里克·卡夫，印刷史学家，图书馆长，联合国教科文组织及大英图书馆顾问，拥有大量珍本书藏书，并在世界各地的图书馆及大学开设信息学课程。著有 THE PRIVATE PRESS（《私人出版社》） Impressions of Nature: A History of Na ture Printing（《自然的印象：自然印刷法的历史》）等。 萨拉·阿亚德，一生都在研究书，她作过图书管理员、书商、编辑、艺术史学家、图片研究者，她将对文字和视觉艺术的兴趣紧密结合在一起。

The Silk Road is iconic in world history; but what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting. In The Silk Road: A New History with Documents, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionized our unders...(展开全部)

The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appe...(展开全部)

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materialit...(展开全部)