In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse social realities. She outlines...(展开全部)

阿绮波德·立德(Archibald Little，1845～926)，英国在华著名商人立德之妻，习称立德夫人。立德夫人1887年到达中国，她与丈夫在中国生活了20年，几乎走遍了中国南方的所有通商口岸。她努力了解中国家庭，研究中国的政治及教育制度。主要著作有：《在中国的婚事》(1899)、《亲密接触中国》(1899)、《穿蓝色长袍的国度》(1901)、《北京指南》(1904)，《李鸿章，他的生平和时代》、《北京我家花园的周围》(1905)等。游历、写作之外，立德夫人还对中国妇女饱受缠足陋习的荼毒极为同情，因而全力投入清末的反缠足运动。 1906年，立德夫妇离开中国，返回英国。1926年，81岁的立德夫人走完了她作为作家、旅游家和社会改革家的一生。

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hope...(展开全部)

From New Yorker Executive Editor and writer Michael Luo, an urgent, deeply felt history of the Chinese in America and their more than century-long struggle to belong. In 1889, while upholding the latest in a series of exclusionary laws targeting Chinese immigrants, the Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field characterized the Chinese as “impossible to assimilate with our pe...(展开全部)

A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce. Author Seung-joon Lee profiles Canton as an exemplary site of provisioni...(展开全部)

A penetrating examination of the central issues, trends, and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities they present to America and the world.

【美】约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 美国文学家，1962年获诺贝尔文学奖。 一生共创作27部作品，包括喜剧小说《罐头厂街》、跨类型作品《伊甸之东》、普利策奖获奖作品《愤怒的葡萄》、旅行作品《横越美国》等。 斯坦贝克是地位崇高的文学大师，也是深受读者喜爱的畅销书作家。他1968年过世之后，多部作品持续畅销至今。 ----------------------- 译者：王一凡 文学译者。译有《故园风雨后》《福尔摩斯先生》《接触！一本邂逅之书》《夜幕降临》《无罪的罪人》《请你帮我杀了她》《许愿树》《旅行的意义》《永远的异乡客》等多部作品。

【美】约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 美国文学家，1962年获诺贝尔文学奖。 一生共创作27部作品，包括喜剧小说《罐头厂街》、跨类型作品《伊甸之东》、普利策奖获奖作品《愤怒的葡萄》、旅行作品《横越美国》等。 斯坦贝克是地位崇高的文学大师，也是深受读者喜爱的畅销书作家。他1968年过世之后，多部作品持续畅销至今。 ----------------------- 译者：王一凡 文学译者。译有《故园风雨后》《福尔摩斯先生》《接触！一本邂逅之书》《夜幕降临》《无罪的罪人》《请你帮我杀了她》《许愿树》《旅行的意义》《永远的异乡客》等多部作品。

For this collection, Stocking has written comments on each of the eight essays included, as well as an introduction providing autobiographical and historiographical context and an afterword reconsidering major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology. The essays themselves address the work and influence of Franz Boas and...(展开全部)

In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and...(展开全部)