This richly illustrated book is the first to apply the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Editor Paul Freedman has gathered essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians to present a comprehensive, chronological history of taste from pr...(展开全部)

This whimsical children's story highlights cooperation and collaboration between a group of animals in their quest to reach the moon. Beautiful watercolor paintings punctuate this story that draws from classic fables and legends, while shedding light on important values, such as generosity, solidarity, and kindness. Capturing children's fascination of the night sky and the moon...(展开全部)

No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's "Distinction" brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the cour...(展开全部)

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of...(展开全部)

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of...(展开全部)

Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and...(展开全部)

Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and...(展开全部)

- 作者简介 - 吉奥乔•阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben，1942— ），意大利哲学家，当代最富影响力的思想家之一，代表作为“神圣人”系列。拜德雅已出阿甘本著作：《语言的圣礼：誓言考古学》（“神圣人”Ⅱ，3）、《宁芙》、《奇遇》、《普尔奇内拉或献给孩童的嬉游曲》、《品味》、《什么是哲学？》。 - 译者简介 - 蓝江， 1977年出生，湖北荆州人，南京大学哲学系教授、博士生导师，南京大学马克思主义社会理论研究中心研究员，主要研究方向为国外马克思主义、当代欧陆激进左翼思想，著有《忠于事件本身：巴迪欧哲学思想导论》、《阿甘本五讲》等书，译有《语言的圣礼：誓言考古学》（“神圣人”II，3）、《宁芙》、《品味》、《什么是哲学？》、《巴迪欧：关键概念》等书。

- 作者简介 - 吉奥乔•阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben，1942— ），意大利哲学家，当代最富影响力的思想家之一，代表作为“神圣人”系列。拜德雅已出阿甘本著作：《语言的圣礼：誓言考古学》（“神圣人”Ⅱ，3）、《宁芙》、《奇遇》、《普尔奇内拉或献给孩童的嬉游曲》、《品味》、《什么是哲学？》。 - 译者简介 - 蓝江， 1977年出生，湖北荆州人，南京大学哲学系教授、博士生导师，南京大学马克思主义社会理论研究中心研究员，主要研究方向为国外马克思主义、当代欧陆激进左翼思想，著有《忠于事件本身：巴迪欧哲学思想导论》、《阿甘本五讲》等书，译有《语言的圣礼：誓言考古学》（“神圣人”II，3）、《宁芙》、《品味》、《什么是哲学？》、《巴迪欧：关键概念》等书。

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to em...(展开全部)