In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. From the early seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, the ruling power of Taiwan shifted from Spaniard and Dutch to the Late-Ming Zheng regime, then to the Qing court and imperial Japan, and finally to the Kuomintang (KMT...(展开全部)

Trusted for its timeliness and ample learning aids, this best-seller introduces geography as a social science by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. Another main focus of the book is the relationship between globalization and cultural diversity, which is woven throughout the narrative. Rubenstein addresses these themes with a clear organization a...(展开全部)

Trusted for its timeliness and ample learning aids, this best-seller introduces geography as a social science by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. Another main focus of the book is the relationship between globalization and cultural diversity, which is woven throughout the narrative. Rubenstein addresses these themes with a clear organization a...(展开全部)

In the new paperback edition of this classic text, Liebes and Katz examine how television viewers around the world respond differently to popular television programmes, particularly Dallas. Analszing conversations among viewers in Israel, Japan and the U. S., they show that viewers possess a good deal more critical ability than they are commonly given credit for.

本•A. 敏特尔（Ben A. Minteer），亚利桑那州立大学生命科学院教授，主要研究领域为环境伦理与保护，论文刊登于《科学》《自然》《美国国家科学院院刊》等刊物。《景观革新》是他研究美国环境思想的代表作。

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latza (TM)s landscape architect...(展开全部)

W.G.霍斯金斯（William George Hoskins，1908-1992年），英国历史学家，英国社会科学院院士，曾任教于莱斯特大学、牛津大学。他以研究英格兰地方史著称，在景观史研究方面做出巨大的开创性贡献，其研究领域还涉及考古学、城市史和农业史等。霍斯金斯撰有近二十部专著，《英格兰景观的形成》（1955年）是最具代表性的著作，另著有《英格兰地方史，过去与现在》（1966年）、《地方史中的田野调查》（1967年）、《掠夺年代》（1976年）等书。 梅雪芹，清华大学历史系教授，中国世界近现代史研究会副会长、中国英国史研究会理事。长期从事世界近现代史、英国近现代史和环境史的教学与研究。出版有《环境史学与环境问题》《环境史研究叙论》等著作，《火之简史》《什么是环境史》《大象的退却：一部中国环境史》等译作，在核心期刊发表论文数十篇。 刘梦霏，清华大学...(展开全部)

The Making of the English Countryside is W G Hoskins’ masterpiece, revealing the hidden histories of the landscape. This hugely influential and ground-breaking book changed forever the way we experience the places we live and work.

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the transmission of information among cetaceans. Just as human cultures pass on lan...(展开全部)

This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, 17 original contributions address the relevance of architectural theory in the contemporary world from various persp...(展开全部)