As climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power—and the responsibility to use those too...(展开全部)

As climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power—and the responsibility to use those too...(展开全部)

乔纳森•西蒙斯博士毕业于墨尔本大学社会与政治科学学院，现为澳大利亚麦考瑞大学副教授，在社会科学学院讲授公共政策与国际关系。他目前的研究重点主要集中于环境政治及全球气候政策，包括太阳能地球工程、生物工程和碳消除等。

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-...(展开全部)

阿伦·布洛克(Alan Bullock, 1914-2004)，英国著名历史学家，牛津大学原副校长。曾以《希特勒：暴政研究》一书享誉史学界，以针对教育与民主问题的“布洛克报告”闻名英国政坛。因其在学术与政治领域的杰出成就，他于1976年被英国皇室册封为终身贵族。

杰弗里·帕克（Geoffrey Parker） 历史学家，现任美国俄亥俄州立大学安德烈亚斯·多帕伦欧洲史教授、莫尚国际安全研究中心成员，英国学术院院士，曾获得2012年喜力历史（Heineken Prize for History），2014年凭《全球危机》获得英国学术院奖章（British Academy Medal）。另著有《腓力二世的大战略》《军事革命》《莽撞的国王》《皇帝》等书。

According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The Structure of the Ordinary, the culmination of decades of environmental observation and design research, is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture. The authors centr...(展开全部)

In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. A renowned anthropologist, Mauss sought in this work to transcend empirical observation and reach deeper realities. In so doing, he inaugurated a new era for the social sciences. By identifying the complex web o...(展开全部)