While fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fringe audience, shifts in technology and production in the last few decades have made fandom a central mode of media consumption. An abundance of theorists have emerged in parallel to explore this phenomenon, many specializing in particular kinds of fan research. Although the volume will not address sports fandom, it will aim to...(展开全部)

Edward Sapir was an early 20th century leader in the field of linguists. He was a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of the creators of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. His accomplishments include a substantial series of publications on Nootka and other languages, and his seminal book Language (1921), which is still a leading book in the field. Language an Introducti...(展开全部)

Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion; elucidation of glycogenic function of the liver.

威廉F.派纳（William F.Pinar）,现为美国路易斯安那州立大学课程与教学系教授，课程理论项目主任，国际课程研究促进协会（IAACS）主席。作为20世纪70年代“概念重建”运动的发起人之一，派纳是当代美国课程领域最富有影响力的课程理论家之一。他对传统的“泰勒原理”提出了尖锐的批评，强调从个体生活经验的角度考察课程，倡导课程理论的多样化和跨学科性。他致力于从自传、种族、性别的角度理解课程，尤其侧重这些领域的跨学科探讨。除《理解课程》这部名著外，他还著有《奇特的水果》、《自传、政治与性别：课程理论论文集 1972-1992》（1994）、《课程：走向新的认同》（1998）、《Maxine Greene激情的思想》（1998）、《把课程理解为种族文本》（1993）、《把课程理解为现象学与解构文本》（与W.Reynolds合编，1992）、《课程作...(展开全部)

This collection of readings sets out the two fundamental distinctions between common and civil law, namely that the former originated in the English courts, the latter in the Roman legal tradition, and that the common law is based on judicial decisions whereas codes form the basis of modern civil law. The core of the book consists of cases, statutes and code provisions shaping ...(展开全部)

Multidisciplinary look at introductory social science This classic text provides a revised and updated survey of the social sciences, written in an unbiased manner with a multidisciplinary, common sense approach. The Fourteenth Edition highlights the dramatic political and economic changes that have swept the world in recent years, providing students and instructors with a star...(展开全部)

This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the computer and television screen. It will prove indispensable to students of art and art history as well as students of cultural studies. Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture is, and explores how and why visual media - fine art, cinema, the Internet, adv...(展开全部)

Although the first edition of the study appeared over seventy years ago, Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar remains the most comprehensive presentation of Middle Egyptian available, and is still an essential reference tool for all advanced work in the language. The latest, third, edition, appeared in 1957 and is now in its tenth reprinting. After each new element of grammar the learne...(展开全部)

Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices and the many images we encounter ...(展开全部)