In his final work Alan Booth takes us on a fascinating journey by foot through three remote regions of Japan to search for the country's geographic and spiritual heart - and for the elusive connections between present and past, self and society. Looking for the Lost is a beautifully written, opinionated, and entertaining look at the life and slow death of a culture, and a poign...(展开全部)

艾伦•麦克法兰 英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家、剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡18种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》（以上三种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫•乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》和《现代世界的形成》等。

艾伦•麦克法兰 英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家、剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡18种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》（以上三种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫•乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》和《现代世界的形成》等。

艾伦•麦克法兰 英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家、剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡18种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》（以上三种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫•乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》和《现代世界的形成》等。

艾伦•麦克法兰 英国著名社会人类学家、历史学家、剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡18种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》（以上三种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫•乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》和《现代世界的形成》等。

安德鲁·博尔顿（Andrew Bolton），就学于东安格利亚大学，学习非西方艺术并获硕士学位，曾在伦敦维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆工作九年，于2002年加入大都会艺术博物馆，现为大都会艺术博物馆时装学院主策展人。他已策划数场备受瞩目的时尚展览，出版多部著作，并为艺术与时尚类出版物撰稿。 胡杨，本科毕业于复旦大学哲学系，研究生毕业于纽约大学心理学系。

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. "The Paradox of Hope" focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chron...(展开全部)

Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environ...(展开全部)

Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this conjoining of ethnography, history and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties, as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites and cultural practices suspended a...(展开全部)

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an uncondi...(展开全部)