Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences Author of some 70 books and an 'immortal' member of the Académie française, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His scholarship contributes to current debates in post-humanism, object-oriented ontology, ecologic...(展开全部)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that...(展开全部)

Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that...(展开全部)

This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world--wide in the 1990s. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in critical theory have changed patt...(展开全部)

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies...(展开全部)

"Nevertheless, the author has reduced what is complex to a very readable level that will be of utility to students of geography and the history of science. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ("Choice", 1 October 2013) “Cresswell’s introduction to Geographic Thought is everything such a book should be: open and honest, wise and witty, accessible a...(展开全部)

Geographic Thought An accessible and engaging introduction to geographic thought In the newly expanded Second Edition of Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, renowned scholar Tim Cresswell delivers a thoroughly up-to-date and accessible examination of the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field. Coverage of the complete range of the development of t...(展开全部)