A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statem...(展开全部)

In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gevaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell ...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist...(展开全部)

塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比 美国外交关系委员会保罗·沃尔克国际经济高阶研究员，曾任《金融时报》编辑并两度入围新闻领域的“奥斯卡”普利策奖。其著作包括《格林斯潘传》（The Man Who Knew）、《富可敌国》（More Money Than God）等。

In The Power of the Actor , a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor ...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。

This study discusses basic questions about Rubens's art and life, studies two of his bacchic paintings in detail and describes him in a less easy and more identifiably modern predicament.

Reconsiders the concensus on Rubens as a successful, prolific, and facile court painter who is dwarfed by the achievements of his near-contemporary Rembrandt. This book scrutinizes the assumptions upon which this image is built, and discovers an artist involved with ambivalence and ambiguity.