The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children—and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form—with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable “hybrid economy” . Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age...(展开全部)

Table of Contents * Preface * Introduction * Part I: Cultures * Chapter 1: Cultures of our Past RW v. RO Culture Limits in Regulation * Chapter 2: Cultures of our Future * Chapter 3: RO, Extended Nature remade Re-remaking Nature Recoding Us * Chapter 4: RW, Revived Writing beyond words Remixed: Text Remixed: Media The Significance of Remix The Old in the New * Chapter 5: Cultur...(展开全部)

The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war-a war waged against those who create and consume art. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, ...(展开全部)

An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received cosmologies, human agency in history, and naturalism in the representation of social and or...(展开全部)

A catalogue issued in conjunction with "Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, September 17, 2016-January 9, 2017. The exhibition and catalogue explore the art, craft, and cultural significance of Chinese woodblock prints made during their golden age, from the late 16th century through the 19th ...(展开全部)

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in the groundbreaking Alien franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but it is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. Alien: Covenant – The Art of th...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

“Enlightening… In thoughtful vignettes, Thackara examines numerous grassroots initiatives around the world [and] proposes ‘an economy based on social energy,’ that uses a very small percentage of the resources presently used… Recommended.”―Choice Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges―climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare―that threaten our way of...(展开全部)