In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were, Harpham contends, invented after World War II as an expression of American culture and character, and were advanced by their supporters as an instrument of American national interests. A...(展开全部)

In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were, Harpham contends, invented after World War II as an expression of American culture and character, and were advanced by their supporters as an instrument of American national interests. A...(展开全部)

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compa...(展开全部)

Jay Rubin explains how Murakami developed a distinctive new style in Japanese writing. In tracing the reclusive writer’s career, he draws on his own interviews with him, and observations gathered from ten years of collaborating with Murakami on translations of his works.

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compa...(展开全部)

New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity. The theme of the book is the failure of the orthodox view - that pieces of music are more or less self-contained structures of sound - to account for some important features of o...(展开全部)

New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity. The theme of the book is the failure of the orthodox view - that pieces of music are more or less self-contained structures of sound - to account for some important features of o...(展开全部)

Ice Cube is one of the most influential figures in the history of rap and hip hop. Best known for the vitriol of his 'angry black man' recordings of the late 1980s and mid 1990s, he epitomizes the genre often referred to as gangsta rap. Much of his music from these years is focused on the disturbing realities of life in black urban ghettos, chronicling such complex and controve...(展开全部)

马克斯·韦伯（1864-1920），现时代最杰出的社会学家，被视为20世纪最伟大的头脑之一。他在政治社会学、法律社会学、宗教社会学等若干领域的系统建树，他的方法论体系，他的大规模比较研究，至今仍是无与伦比。 德国的韦伯成为世界的韦伯，很大程度上是由于《新教伦理与资本主义精神》、《社会学文集》和《经济与社会》的广泛影响，而《社会学文集》自20世纪问世以来，对于初步但比较全面地了解韦伯思想就一直是公认的权威读本。

马克斯·韦伯（1864-1920），现时代最杰出的社会学家，被视为20世纪最伟大的头脑之一。他在政治社会学、法律社会学、宗教社会学等若干领域的系统建树，他的方法论体系，他的大规模比较研究，至今仍是无与伦比。 德国的韦伯成为世界的韦伯，很大程度上是由于《新教伦理与资本主义精神》、《社会学文集》和《经济与社会》的广泛影响，而《社会学文集》自20世纪问世以来，对于初步但比较全面地了解韦伯思想就一直是公认的权威读本。