Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industri...(展开全部)

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism,...(展开全部)

The image of the lone inventor transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the public's imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In Leonardo to the Internet, historian Thomas J. Misa provides a sweeping comparative history of the interrelationship between technology and society since the Renaissance, rev...(展开全部)

Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft. In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and...(展开全部)

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 弗兰克·M.斯诺登（Frank M. Snowden），耶鲁大学安德鲁·唐尼·奥里克历史与医学史荣休教授，专长领域为社会史、医学史，以及意大利近代史等。其著作包括《意大利南部的暴力和大庄园：1900—1922年的阿普利亚》（1984）、《1919—1922 年托斯卡纳的法西斯革命》（1989）、《霍乱时期的那不勒斯》（1995）、《征服疟疾：1900—1962年的意大利》（2006），以及《流行病与社会：从黑死病开始的瘟疫史》（2019）。《征服疟疾：1900—1962年的意大利》曾被美国历史协会授予“海伦与霍华德·R.马拉罗奖”，并荣获美国医学史协会颁发的韦尔奇奖章。 ◎ 译者简介 季珊珊，南京大学历史学院世界史硕士，曾赴台湾师范大学、剑桥大学交流访问，研究方向为近代英国医疗社会史，发表文章《欧洲最早的医学院——萨莱诺医学院的兴衰》，...(展开全部)

哈罗德•C.勋伯格，著名音乐评论家、作家。就学于纽约大学。曾任《纽约太阳报》《纽约时报》音乐评论员、高级评论员。1971年荣获普利策评论奖。著有多部介绍钢琴家、指挥家及作曲家的专著。

哈罗德•C.勋伯格，著名音乐评论家、作家。就学于纽约大学。曾任《纽约太阳报》《纽约时报》音乐评论员、高级评论员。1971年荣获普利策评论奖。著有多部介绍钢琴家、指挥家及作曲家的专著。

From Mozart’s fabulous legato that “flowed like oil” to Beethoven’s oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumann’s touch “sharp as a pencil sketch” to Rubinstein’s volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history’s greatest pianists. Pulitzer Prize–winning ...(展开全部)