Small World is a biting and very funny satire in which Martin Parr observes global tourism and the tourist's search for authentic cultures that are themselves destroyed in that search.

Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.

Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.

Small World is a biting and very funny satire in which Martin Parr observes global tourism and the tourist's search for authentic cultures that are themselves destroyed in that search.

辛西娅•斯托克斯•布朗（Cynthia Stokes Brown） 历史学家，国际大历史协会（IBHA）创会委员，公认的“讲述大历史的大师”。 早年在杜克大学获得历史学本科学位，在约翰•霍普金斯大学获得硕士和博士学位。著有《与过去联结》等多部历史作品，她的写作兼具文采与才气，曾三次荣获美国图书奖。 她长期致力于“大历史”的研究与普及工作，和国际大历史协会创会主席大卫•克里斯蒂安一起，历时近30年让大历史风靡全球。 在她的支持和鼓励下，多米尼加大学成为第一所将大历史课程作为大一新生必修课的大学。在总结20多年教学实践基础上，她和大卫•克里斯蒂安、克雷格•本杰明合著了大历史的第一本大学教材《大历史：从虚无到万物》，这本书已经成为近百所欧美大学指定教材。2012年比尔•盖茨斥资千万美元，在全球范围推广“大历史教学项目”（Big History Projec...(展开全部)

In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous, and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans. Simon Garfield is a master of finding delight and fascination in unlikely places and here we discover flea circuses, 1,000 tiny Hitlers, miniature crime scenes, model villages and railways, minuscule foo...(展开全部)

简介：我也想不起来要写啥

简介：我也想不起来要写啥