How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At the same time, she offers a new w...(展开全部)

How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At the same time, she offers a new w...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克，斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学社会学和哲学高级研究员，拉康传统最重要的继承人，他长期致力于沟通拉康精神分析理论与马克思主义哲学，将精神分析、主体性、意识形态和大众文化熔于一炉，形成了极为独特的学术思想和政治立场，成为20世纪90年代以来最为耀眼的国际学术明星之一，被一些学者称为黑格尔式的思想家。他曾任法国巴黎第八大学、美国明尼苏达大学、哥伦比亚大学、普林斯顿大学等许多知名高等院校的访问教授、活跃于各种哲学、精神分析和文化批评国际学术讨论会，所到之处儿乎都引起广泛的注意。詹姆逊说他“发出了一种不平常的声音，我们将在今后数年内反复聆听”。伊格尔顿评价他是欧洲近十年来最重要的思想家之一。

When the Decorative Arts dedicates him an exhibition, this whole monograph pays particular attention to the selection and working of fabrics that Hussein Chalayan has sublimated into a creative and original process, itself decrypted as such. Mainly focused on sewing, the book also develops all of his creative work: installations, videos and photos. With contributions by Pamela ...(展开全部)

If mid-1990s British fashion conjurs up images of vicious or tricksy tailoring and sexually-charged power-dressing, Chalayan represents its more gentle, cerebral side. The Turkish-Cypriot-born designer's clothing is highly modern, delicately feminine and about as close to pure as it is possible for fashion to be. --The Independent, London While most fashion designers seem to ...(展开全部)

If mid-1990s British fashion conjurs up images of vicious or tricksy tailoring and sexually-charged power-dressing, Chalayan represents its more gentle, cerebral side. The Turkish-Cypriot-born designer's clothing is highly modern, delicately feminine and about as close to pure as it is possible for fashion to be. --The Independent, London While most fashion designers seem to ...(展开全部)

When the Decorative Arts dedicates him an exhibition, this whole monograph pays particular attention to the selection and working of fabrics that Hussein Chalayan has sublimated into a creative and original process, itself decrypted as such. Mainly focused on sewing, the book also develops all of his creative work: installations, videos and photos. With contributions by Pamela ...(展开全部)

The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Co...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 米克洛什·哈拉兹蒂（Miklós Haraszti），1945 年出生在耶路撒冷，后随父母回到匈牙利。他是匈牙利当代重要作家、思想家、人权运动者、大学教授，同时也是匈牙利民主派异议者最重要的地下期刊《讲述者》的编辑和突出贡献者。20世纪70年代匈牙利民主与自由出版运动发起者之一。2004—2010年曾指导欧洲安全与合作委员会（OSCE）媒体自由监督机构。另有著作《工人国家的工人》。作品被翻译多种语言，在欧美影响深远。 【译者简介】 戴潍娜，毕业于牛津大学。致力于“智性”与“灵性”相结合的文学创作和研究。著有诗文集《瘦江南》、童话小说集《仙草姑娘》。翻译作品包括伊塔洛·卡尔维诺短篇小说《组合与反组合》，雷蒙•格诺实验文本《格诺二题》《乌力波简史》等。

Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, ÈmigrÈ Croatians, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies. Even as the creators of official history jealously guarded the right to produce historical tex...(展开全部)