The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage m...(展开全部)

This book discusses two related themes concerning the role and processes of mass communication in society. The first deals with questions regarding the power of the media: how should it be defined? how is it wielded and by whom? are previous approaches and answers to such questions adequate? The second theme revolves around the divisions between the liberal pluralist and Marxis...(展开全部)

罗伦斯·安荷特(Laurence Anholt)和凯瑟琳·安荷特(Catherine Anholt)是英国著名的童书作家／画家夫妻档，自1984年以来合作出版超过九十部作品，并被转译为多国文字，深受世界各地儿童的喜爱。他们两人是Falmouth School of Art的同学，罗伦斯后来进入Royal Academy修得艺术硕士，他们有时搭档写、画，也和其它作画家合作。 他们合作的图画书，多取材自真实的家庭生活，读者常可在凯瑟琳的图画中看到熟悉的家常事物，充满丰富、有趣的细节。他们现在住在英格兰西南部的Lyme Regis，而且在海边开了一间以他们的畅销书命名的书店“Chimp and Zee”。

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion. This ...(展开全部)

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion. This ...(展开全部)

In The Greeks, Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell try to see ancient Greece as a whole: not just a narrative of events or an overview of culture, but history and culture taken together. From ancient Greece comes the modern conviction that through open discussion and the exercise of reason a society of free citizens can solve the problems that challenge it. In one period of Greek hi...(展开全部)

Organized chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history and features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period.