Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to th...(展开全部)

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·C.斯科特（James C. Scott），1936年生，现为耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林讲席教授，创立并主持耶鲁农政研究中心。斯科特于1992年当选为美国人文与科学院院士，1997年至1998年担任亚洲研究协会主席。2020年，美国社会科学研究委员会将最高荣誉“阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖”授予斯科特，以表彰他“广博而卓越的跨学科研究”。其主要著作《农民的道义经济学》《弱者的武器》《支配与抵抗艺术》《国家的视角》《逃避统治的艺术》均有中译本，读者众多。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授、立法与法治战略研究中心主任。先后就读于南京大学法学院、香港中文大学政治学系、耶鲁大学法学院，2008年于香港中文大学获得政治学博士。近期出版专著《继往以为序章：中国宪法的制度展开》，译著《我们的孩子》《娇惯的心灵》《寒门子弟上大学》。“雅理”出版策划与主理人。

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·C.斯科特（James C. Scott），1936年生，现为耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林讲席教授，创立并主持耶鲁农政研究中心。斯科特于1992年当选为美国人文与科学院院士，1997年至1998年担任亚洲研究协会主席。2020年，美国社会科学研究委员会将最高荣誉“阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖”授予斯科特，以表彰他“广博而卓越的跨学科研究”。其主要著作《农民的道义经济学》《弱者的武器》《支配与抵抗艺术》《国家的视角》《逃避统治的艺术》均有中译本，读者众多。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授、立法与法治战略研究中心主任。先后就读于南京大学法学院、香港中文大学政治学系、耶鲁大学法学院，2008年于香港中文大学获得政治学博士。近期出版专著《继往以为序章：中国宪法的制度展开》，译著《我们的孩子》《娇惯的心灵》《寒门子弟上大学》。“雅理”出版策划与主理人。

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Gothic" might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures--made since ...(展开全部)

show/off #2 magazine Show/Off #2 is a unique magazine about the Fashion Department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. It features highlights from the Fashion Department: the end of year collections of the Master students, works by the Bachelor Year students, information about various projects and workshops... Show/Off #2 is a collector’s item made with ...(展开全部)

Some 40 nationalities participate in the courses of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, under the watchful leadership of Walter van Beirendonck. This magazine reflects the wide and exciting array of fashion that is created by such a diverse collection of participants. Full-page, colour photographs document recent fashion collections produced by th...(展开全部)