The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In Of Body and Brush, Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was p...(展开全部)

司徒安，纽约大学人类学与宗教研究副教授。主要研究领域为人类学、中国文化史及宗教研究。拍摄纪录片《水书》（2012）。合编Body, Subject and Power in China, DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film。她的个人网页为www.angelazito.com。

Medicine as Culture is unlike any other sociological text on health and medicine. For many lecturers and students the book has become a classic text, which combines perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, social history and cultural studies. The aim of the book is to tease out how medicine and health care are sociocultural constr...(展开全部)

Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body's physical, psychologi...(展开全部)

作者 大卫·皮尔森：英国首屈一指的图书史专家，剑桥大学博士，曾担任英国国立艺术图书馆收藏部主任、英国目录学协会主席。著有《书籍历史中的来源研究指南》《牛津装帧设计》《英国书籍装帧风格》等。 译者 恺 蒂：撰稿人、策展人、制片人。毕业于上海复旦大学与伦敦城市大学，曾任职于英国国立艺术图书馆，现定居伦敦。已出版作品集《海天冰谷说书人》，《酿一碗怀旧的酒》，《书缘•情缘》，《书里的风景》等。译作《莎士比亚书店》等。 设计师 朱嬴椿：书衣坊工作室设计总监。曾多次获得国内外设计大奖。《不裁》获2007年度“世界最美的书”，《蚁呓》被联合国教科文组织评为2008年度“最美图书特别奖”。2016年作品《虫子书》被大英图书馆永久收藏。

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves arou...(展开全部)

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods-one literary and one architectural-Bloomer uses the allegorical strategies she finds in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to analyze three works of Giambattista Piranesi...(展开全部)

"The Second Edition of Medicine as Culture" provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies. Drawing on the tradition of the sociology of health and illness, Deborah Lupton directs readers to an understanding of medicine, health care, illness and disease from a sociocultural perspective. At a time of increasi...(展开全部)