Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what does it take to become an oral historian? Donald A. Ritchie, a leading expert in...(展开全部)

Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what does it take to become an oral historian? Donald A. Ritchie, a leading expert in...(展开全部)

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for unde...(展开全部)

Comprising interviews with lesser documented developers at companies including Sega, Enix, Capcom, Hudson Soft and Nihon Falcom, Japansoft: An Oral History offers fresh and diverse perspectives on many of the defining games of their time. A re-edited digest of game journalist John Szczepaniak's three volume series, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. This edition a...(展开全部)

Japansoft以创新且设计精美的方式，讲述了日本新兴电子游戏产业的历史，由当时在场的人讲述，带领读者了解游戏、公司和人类的经历，它们塑造了一种全新的文化。 《日本软体：口述历史》采访了世嘉、艾尼克斯、卡普空、Hudson Soft 和日本 Falcom 等公司的游戏开发者，为我们这个时代的许多标志性游戏提供了新颖而多样的视角。这本书深入探讨了日本电子游戏行业的起源，记录了几十年来备受喜爱的创意时代。日本插画家长场雄的轶事插图，以及从未见过的时代照片、罕见的新闻广告，以及日本游戏时代早期标志性的关键电脑和游戏机的插图指南，为这本书增添了丰富的见解。 本书是游戏记者 John Szczepaniak 的三卷本系列作品《日本游戏开发者不为人知的历史》的重新编辑摘要，其中增加了对藤田晴美（ 《生化尖兵》）、船水则孝（《1943 年、88 区》）、松前爱美...(展开全部)

Giovanni Battista est l'un des innombrables gardiens d'une Tour immense, sans limites connues, dont les autorités semblent avoir oublié jusqu'à l'existence. Las d'attendre la visite de l'inspecteur, Giovanni décide de partir à sa recherche. Au cours d'une quête difficile, il va rencontrer Elias Aureolus Palingenius, qui veille sur d'étranges tableaux, et tomber amoureux de la j...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1969, this book consists of a revised version of Dr Chadwick's section on the oral literature of the Turkic peoples in The Growth of Literature with supplementary material on the results of research in the Soviet Union by Professor Victor Zhirmunsky. This literature is of the greatest interest and variety, and not excessively 'strange' to readers of Euro...(展开全部)

Bath History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the illustrious history of this beautiful city in Somerset. Author Jenny Knight guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how i

罗兰•巴尔特（Ro1and Barthes，1915—1980），当代法国著名文学理论家与文化评论家，被认为是继萨特之后法国思想界的领袖人物之一，以及蒙田之后最富才华的散文大家。他在符号学、精神分析批评、结构主义、解构主义诸领域都有卓越建树，对西方文化和人文理论的未来发展，具有不可估量的深远影响。 巴尔特在法国开创了研究社会、文化、文学深层意义的符号学方法，发表了大量分析文章和专著，其丰富的符号学研究成果具有划时代的意义。巴尔特符号学理论，从崭新的角度，以敏锐的目光，剖析了时装、照片、电影、广告、叙事、汽车、烹饪等各种文化现象的“记号体系”，从而深刻地改变了人们观察和认识世界及历史的方式。 晚期巴尔特对当代西方文化和文学的思考进一步深化，超越了前期结构主义立场，朝向有关意义基础、下意识心理、文学本质等后结构主义和解构主义认识论问题的探讨。其学术遗产...(展开全部)