Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contemporary Thinkers Reframed" instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise ac...(展开全部)

He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time...(展开全部)

Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contemporary Thinkers Reframed" instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas.Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise act...(展开全部)

Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.

丹尼斯·J·斯波勒，享誉国际的教授、学者、作家与艺术家。他在中央密歇根大学获演讲和戏剧专业学士学位，同时辅修音乐；在爱荷华大学获舞台设计与技术专业的硕士学位。他曾担任宾州州立大学、亚利桑那大学等美国多所学校的终身教授、系主任或院长。教学经验包括人文与美术等 多种学科领域。他还曾从事专业的演唱事业，设计舞台布景与照明作品，有《感知艺术》《穿越艺术的现实》《创作的冲动：艺术品介绍》《视觉艺术指南》等多种著作出版，并有大量期刊文章与诗歌作品。 译者 史梦阳，毕业于北京外国语大学，翻译专业硕士。与他人合译《舞蹈学导论》《代寻旧日时光》，独立翻译《我不要我们永远在一起》。

When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered it worthy of serious study. In their analysis of everything from Westerns an...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·J·斯波勒，享誉国际的教授、学者、作家与艺术家。他在中央密歇根大学获演讲和戏剧专业学士学位，同时辅修音乐；在爱荷华大学获舞台设计与技术专业的硕士学位。他曾担任宾州州立大学、亚利桑那大学等美国多所学校的终身教授、系主任或院长。教学经验包括人文与美术等 多种学科领域。他还曾从事专业的演唱事业，设计舞台布景与照明作品，有《感知艺术》《穿越艺术的现实》《创作的冲动：艺术品介绍》《视觉艺术指南》等多种著作出版，并有大量期刊文章与诗歌作品。 译者 史梦阳，毕业于北京外国语大学，翻译专业硕士。与他人合译《舞蹈学导论》《代寻旧日时光》，独立翻译《我不要我们永远在一起》。

The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living.Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real re...(展开全部)

This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or undertaking their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language--a model in itself--William Thomson describes how to make writte...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions...(展开全部)