• Provides the reader a nuanced understanding of rural France that goes beyond the static, picture postcard vision of the French countryside. • Brings together memoirs, television, magazines, film, and photographic sources. • Features insert of color photography of the French countryside. At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacit...(展开全部)

In this powerful new study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a historical perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought arose in the closely contested space of post-war French intellec...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

查尔斯·蒂利（Charles Tilly，1929—2008），享誉学界的美国历史社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“2l 世纪社会学之父”“ 美国最多产、最有趣的社会学家”。曾任教于哈佛大学、多伦多大学、哥伦比亚大学等高校。主要研究社会运动、城市化进程和民族国家的形成，曾荣获法国棕榈叶教育骑士勋章、社会科学研究委员会阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖、美国社会学学会终身成就奖、国际政治学会卡尔·多伊奇奖等。一生著有50 余部著作，代表作有《社会运动，1768—2004》等。 汪珍珠，北京师范大学副教授，硕士生导师。主要研究兴趣为二语教学、文化史、翻译理论和实践。编著或参编二语教材若干，在国内外期刊发表二语教学和文化史方向论文若干，译有文化史著作《法国大革命中的政治、文化和阶级》。

One of the most successful animal photographers in the world today, Rachael McKenna (nee Hale) turns her lens toward France--her newly adopted home--and the charismatic cats that inhabit this picturesque backdrop. The result is "The French Cat," a stunning exploration of the country and its felines. Remarkable French landscapes, both urban and rural, are populated with cats bri...(展开全部)

Lecturer in Art History, University of St Andrews

Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by new critical approaches, this book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds t...(展开全部)

“This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.” With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by editors at the Guardian, turning the writing process into a kind of prolonged inter...(展开全部)

Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England....(展开全部)