Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

A survey of 'The Man-made World' including Ethics And Religion, Art, Politics And Warfare (with Woman and the State)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

A survey of 'The Man-made World' including Ethics And Religion, Art, Politics And Warfare (with Woman and the State)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

自从爱迪生的视镜第一次捕获了城市观众的心开始，电影就对美国社会产生了革命性的影响，使美国文化天翻地覆，把原本愤世嫉俗的文化变成了声色犬马的文化，并同时确立了美国梦的神话。对于电影的影响，没有任何一本书比《电影创造美国》考察得更清晰、更全面了。 这本极富可读性而又配有丰富插图的著作将电影作为艺术形式、技术革命、商业运作与文化前导进行了审视。它讨论了从道格拉斯•范朋克到西尔维斯特•史泰龙等明星；讨论了从D•W•格里菲斯到马丁•斯科塞斯与斯派克•李等导演；还讨论了从三十年代的神经喜剧到八十年代的“肌肉”电影再到九十年代的独立电影等电影类型。 《电影创造美国》用对几百部影片的详细评论组成了对电影的全景扫描，是所有电影爱好者的必读书。

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday li...(展开全部)

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday li...(展开全部)

What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. Through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the socia...(展开全部)