Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(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。

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, "Archives of Authority" argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critic...(展开全部)

Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis....(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” — Sunday Times

This long-awaited book by one of the leading experts on German cinema is a landmark in film studies. . . . Clearly written and beautifully produced with ample illustrations, impressive notes, and a useful filmography of Weimar DVDs, the book is a pleasure to read. -- Choice Kaes' study represents a major departure from earlier approaches. Drawing on a growing body of work on tr...(展开全部)

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his anal...(展开全部)

Raymond Williams helped to establish the field of cultural sociology with "Marxism and Literature" and "Culture and Society." Continuing the work of those studies, "The Sociology of Culture" offers debate on the origin and evolution of culture. It defines sociology of culture as a convergence of various fields and explores ways in which culture is socially mediated. "A histori...(展开全部)