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. 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 - 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)

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.</P> "Building on the tradition of social commentators such as Gilbert Seldes, Robert Warshow, and Susan Sontag, Henry Jenkins brings his outstanding insight and compassionate counsel to contemporary cultural phenomena. Here not only media, but affect, matters. A delightful and helpful collection on popular pleasures." &#1...(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。

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new digital communication platforms of various kinds. The authors investigate how film has become more than cinema, no longer a mediu...(展开全部)

This book describes the step-by-step process of writing a ray tracer from scratch. Using numerous examples that illustrate the ray-tracing concept and processes in detail, the author presents a ray-tracer design and sample code that allows for extensibility, efficiency of the algorithms, and readability. Chapters begin with stated aims and include questions and exercises that a...(展开全部)