'!recommended whole-heartedly.' -- The New York Times Dick Hebdige's Subculture is one of the most influential books in cultural studies to have been published in the last fifty years. Acclaimed by Rolling Stone and The New York Times on its first publication, it is a classic study of youth subcultures and the story of style, from Reggae and Rastafarianism to glam rock and pun...(展开全部)

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has a...(展开全部)

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has a...(展开全部)

This is a much-needed development from the first edition that provides an update on the theory and research on love by world-renowned scientific experts. It explores love from a diverse range of standpoints: social-psychological, evolutionary, neuropsychological, clinical, cultural, and even political. It considers questions such as: how men and women differ in their love, what...(展开全部)

The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical ...(展开全部)

Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly port...(展开全部)

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

The Incas is a captivating exploration of the greatest civilization ever seen in the indigenous Americas. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, the book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors. This thoroughly updated ed...(展开全部)

The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 ...(展开全部)