威廉士（R Williams，1921-1988）出身勞工家庭，從青壯期以至於劍橋大學教授職退休，終身努力不懈。透過教學、文字著述、小說創作、游學講演與社會政治運動，亟思改變生產工具私有的資本主義體制，及伴隨而來的價值觀。在英國的傳播研究、文化研究及文學研究陣營中，作者地位顯赫，非但有開創知識的新疆界之功，兼以擇善固執的意志，引導行動、啟迪后進。著作近三十種，并譯為多國語文。

Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies presents a multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which David Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of television audience research. In addition to providing an introductory overview from a cultural studies perspective, David Morley questions how class and cultural di...(展开全部)

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitiv...(展开全部)

Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. Hi...(展开全部)

Applying recent thinking on gender and the environment to original research in science and technology, this unique book explores postcolonial relationships with ‘the wild‘ using the US and Russia as examples. The authors analyse contemporary categorizations of ‘human self‘ versus ‘wild other‘ through three twentieth century icons that best illustrate ambivalent ideas about self...(展开全部)

In this book Paul Rand said to be one of the world's leading graphic designers, speaks about the contemporary practice of graphic design, explaining the processes and passion that foster good design and indicting fadism and trendiness. Illustrating his ideas with examples of his own graphic work as well as with the work of artists he admires, Rand discusses such topics as: the ...(展开全部)

Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson CB FRS FRSE (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of ON GROWTH AND FORM, an influential work of striking originality and elegance. The central theme of ON GROWTH AND FORM is that biologists of its author's day overemphasized evolution as the fun...(展开全部)

达西·汤普森（D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ，1860—1948）是苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学动物学教授，也许是本世纪最博学的人。

The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. He can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spe...(展开全部)

In recent times there has been recognition of the growing influence of cultural theory on historical writing. Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler and Spivak are just some of the thinkers whose ideas have been taken up and deployed by historians. What are these ideas and where do they come from? How have cultural theorists thought about 'history'? And how have historians applied theoreti...(展开全部)