This study analyzes five different types of American urban communities to demonstrate the manner in which economic and political power have constructed the urban landscape. It uses such examples as Disneyworld and Henry Ford's industrial complex to show how powerful interests have shaped the land.

Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker`s bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross`s seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson). The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material en...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book―against a background of t...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book―against a background of t...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·芬奇（Christopher Finch）曾创作过多部关于美国艺术的书籍，包括《克·克劳斯：工作》《查克·克劳斯：生活》《吉姆·汉森：作品》《诺曼·洛克威尔画笔下的美国》等。他最早在位于伦敦的切尔西艺术学院研究绘画，六十年代中期开始撰写艺术评论，并成为了《艺术与艺术家》和英国版《时尚》杂志的特约编辑。在这段时期，他撰写了大量关于英美当代艺术，特别是流行艺术的文章。1967年，他在纽约开始了自由撰稿人的职业生涯，直至1990年搬到洛杉矶为止。 彭静宜，四川成都人，电影学硕士，现就职于中国电影艺术研究中心。

The Art of Walt Disney is one of Abrams' enduring classics. Thirty years and well over half a million copies after its first publication in 1973, it is still considered the definitive study of The Walt Disney Company's vast artistic achievements through the decades. The book tells the remarkable story of Walt Disney and the company he built, from Mickey Mouse to animated featur...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·芬奇（Christopher Finch）曾创作过多部关于美国艺术的书籍，包括《克·克劳斯：工作》《查克·克劳斯：生活》《吉姆·汉森：作品》《诺曼·洛克威尔画笔下的美国》等。他最早在位于伦敦的切尔西艺术学院研究绘画，六十年代中期开始撰写艺术评论，并成为了《艺术与艺术家》和英国版《时尚》杂志的特约编辑。在这段时期，他撰写了大量关于英美当代艺术，特别是流行艺术的文章。1967年，他在纽约开始了自由撰稿人的职业生涯，直至1990年搬到洛杉矶为止。 彭静宜，四川成都人，电影学硕士，现就职于中国电影艺术研究中心。

To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history. In this groundbreaking work-now with a new preface by the author-Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discov...(展开全部)

玛克辛·格林（MaxineGreene，1917.12.23—2014.5.29），美国当代*伟大的教育思想家之一，社会活动家，世界教育哲学界的代表人物，1965年起任职美国哥伦比亚大学教师学院教授。玛克辛·格林是美国教育研究协会的**一位女性主席，也曾担任美国教育研究联合会和教育哲学协会主席。她在1976—2012年担任美国林肯艺术中心长驻哲学家。

段义孚，是享誉世界的美国华裔人文主义地理学大师，在地理学理论、园林建筑、文学、宗教等研究领域都作出过举世瞩目的贡献。他关注人的问题，注重人性、人情，其思想见解发人深省，因而被公认为“拥有超然灵魂之正义之声”。他著作颇丰，代表作品有：《恋地情结：对环境感知、态度和价值观的研究》(Topophilia：A Studh of Environmental Perception，Attitudes ,and Values)、《经验透视中的空间与地方》(Spoce and Plac:The Perspective ofExPerience)、《撕裂的世界与自我：群体生活和个体意识》(Segmented Worlds and self:Group Life andIndividual COILSciousness)、《逃避主义》(Escapism)等等。 ...(展开全部)