"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled....(展开全部)

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, b...(展开全部)

In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible ...(展开全部)

In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible ...(展开全部)

Known to the millions of viewers of the hit reality television show The Apprentice, Carolyn Kepcher attracted enormous media attention for her cool demeanor and her no-holds-barred assessments of the show's candidates in the boardroom each week. In particular, she was not shy about speaking out about her disappointment with the professional conduct of the female candidates, ...(展开全部)

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 "Haunted Media", Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media - from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers - with paranormal or spiritual phenomena. By offering a historical analysis of the relation between communication technologies, discourses of modernity, and metaphysical preoccupations...(展开全部)

查尔斯·蒂利(1929—2008) 著名社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“21世纪社会学之父”。曾任美国哥伦比亚大学约瑟夫·伯滕威泽社会科学教授，曾在特拉华大学、哈佛大学、多伦多大学、密歇根大学、社会研究新学院等校兼任教职；是美国国家科学院、美国艺术和科学研究院、美国哲学学会、美国艺术与科学促进会会员。

For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitzaand the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quar...(展开全部)

E. H. 谢泼德（1879—1976），英国著名插画家，被誉为“维多利亚时代黑白绘画艺术的最后一位大师”（贝维斯·希利尔语）。他为《小熊维尼》系列、《柳林风声》等作品创作的插图，已成为永恒的经典。 范晓星，女，1971年生，北京人，毕业于外交学院英语系，现居美国。2006年起开始翻译童书，现已15年。