From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely aboard fully automated machines? Tensions between Soviet cosmonauts and space engineers were reflected not only in the internal development of the space program but also in Soviet propa...(展开全部)

MEMORIES collects internationally acclaimed artist Enki Bilals graphic novels Memories of Outer Space and Memories of Other Times into one deluxe trade paperback. Presenting some of his earliest short stories, Bilal creates surreal and fantastic worlds with a sci-fi twist.

This book centres on a powerful and gripping story, the 1922-1923 expulsion from Soviet Russia of some one hundred prominent intellectuals - professors, journalists, philosophers, writers, engineers, agronomists, and others. Stuart Finkel's meticulously researched account of this purge is the first close scholarly examination of this event and the first to set it in the context...(展开全部)

This book centres on a powerful and gripping story, the 1922-1923 expulsion from Soviet Russia of some one hundred prominent intellectuals - professors, journalists, philosophers, writers, engineers, agronomists, and others. Stuart Finkel's meticulously researched account of this purge is the first close scholarly examination of this event and the first to set it in the context...(展开全部)

Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of modern societies for so long - distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race,...(展开全部)

"This is an extremely interesting and useful collection of essays presenting totally new interpretations of images in photography and cinema in twentiethcentury China. Essays herein demonstrate how, with proper analysis, significant information about material culture can be obtained from visual images. These essays in particular validate the notion that visual images are discre...(展开全部)

How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.

作者： 斯科特·麦夸尔（Scott McQuire），澳大利亚墨尔本大学文化与传播学院媒体与传播学教授，公共文化研究中心创办人，2013年当选澳大利亚人文科学院院士。出版7本专著，发表100多篇论文等，主持9个澳大利亚研究委员会科研项目。专著《媒介城市》曾获2009年城市传播基金会简·雅各布斯奖。 译者： 潘霁，复旦大学新闻学院教授，信息传播研究中心研究员，新加坡南洋理工大学新媒体研究小组博士后研究员，美国南卡罗莱纳大学博士。主要研究兴趣包括：数字媒体技术对于城市公共生活的影响，城市传播中的信任与社会资本，以及数字传播研究方法创新等。

The question of truth has never been more urgent than today, when the distortion of facts and the imposition of pseudo-realities in the service of the powerful have become the order of the day. In The Paradox of Being Poul Andersen addresses the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual. His approach is unapologetically universalist, and the book may be read as a...(展开全部)

The question of truth has never been more urgent than today, when the distortion of facts and the imposition of pseudo-realities in the service of the powerful have become the order of the day. In The Paradox of Being Poul Andersen addresses the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual. His approach is unapologetically universalist, and the book may be read as a...(展开全部)