A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists....(展开全部)

In 1990, John Major hailed 'the classless society'; in 1997, New Labour announced that 'we're all middle class now', yet we live in an age where food banks, pay day lenders and zero-hour contracts proliferate: it's clear that class matters. Foregrounding the economic nature of class, Split challenges the idea that class can be reduced to the cultural. From precarious labor to r...(展开全部)

Since 2002, Sze Tsung Leong has been photographing the dramatic changes that are transforming the cities of China, revealing a process that begins with the destruction of traditional neighborhoods and ends in the mass construction of new urban environments. He travels with a large-format view camera, visiting cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Pingyao and X...(展开全部)

This text explores the large body of sculpture, paintings and other religious imagery produced for China's common classes from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In contrast to the works made for imperial patrons, illustrious monastics, or other luminaries, these ordinary images - modest in scale, mass-produced, and at times incomplete - were created for those of lesser stand...(展开全部)

In Discorrelated Images, Shane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema. Denson analyzes works ranging from the Transformers series and Blade Runner 2049 to videogames and multimedia installations to show how what he call...(展开全部)

作者简介： 罗纳德•戴维斯，美国南卫理公会大学名誉教授。著有：《魅力工厂：好莱坞大制片制度揭秘》等。

Présentation de l'éditeur " Le moderne dédaigne d'imaginer " disait Mallarmé. Poètes, peintres, dramaturges ou ingénieurs voulaient alors mettre l'union de la forme et de l'acte à la place de la vieille dualité de la réalité et de l'image. La vie en eût été révolutionnée. Nos contemporains ne croient plus en la révolution et chantent à nouveau, fût-ce au passé, le culte de l'im...(展开全部)

戈林·麦凯波（Colin MacCabe）是英国的电影、电视文化学者。1981年因“宣扬结构主义”，成为英国保守学术势力的众矢之的，被逐出剑桥大学。

Dans l'histoire humaine, la fabrication des images atteste une persistance et une continuité au moins égales à celles de la " question de soi ", que l'homme n'a jamais cessé de se poser. Pourtant, une science générale de l'image nous fait encore défaut, qui saurait rendre compte de cette unité symbolique fondamentale de l'activité humaine. Parallèlement à l'histoire de l'art et...(展开全部)