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每满100减50 “你需要知道的职场进阶指南”(套装12册)
“你需要知道的职场进阶指南”(套装12册)
(加)斯科特·亚当斯(ScottAdams)
¥248.90
如何利用人的非理性说服他人?如何在说服的过程中利用视觉想象力?如何为对手贴标签,对其一必杀?如何抢占制高,转守为攻?如何在事情发生之前引导用户的思维?如何设计有效的口号,率先赢得客户? 在本书中,知名系列企业管理漫画《呆伯特》作者斯科特·亚当斯介绍了自己的说服理论,即如何利用“武器级”说服力,抢先竞争对手影响受众,在竞争中赢得胜利。 ◆ 亚当斯认为,说服力分为三个层次,分别是“商业级”“科学级”“武器级”。其中“武器级”说服力尤其难,达到这个级别的大师非常少,几位曾经的美国总统和乔布斯在此级别;“科学级”说服力的代表是认知科学家;“商业级”说服力就是我们通常说的“影响力”“说服力”,市场营销、品牌形象管理、危机公关等用的都是这个级别的说服力。 ◆ 如今,想要在与对手的竞争中赢得胜利,抢夺用户的注意力,不仅要懂得如何影响用户,更重要的是要懂得如何抢先对手影响用户。掌握了这一套说服术,你就拥有了一套杀手级的武器,可以抢先对手先发制胜!
Teeth of the Souls
Teeth of the Souls
Yates, Steve
¥248.88
As the sequel to Morkan's Quarry, The Teeth of the Souls tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching.The story begins just after the Civil War when Leighton Shea Morkan, son of Irish immigrants, marries Patricia Grnhaagen Weitzer, daughter of a German banking family. Yet he can't let go of his childhood love and wartime confidante, the house hand and former slave, Judith. Both unions produce children, one a shrouded secret, and one the heir to the Morkan legacy: the limestone quarries of Springfield, Missouri, and the bloody past, what Judith calls "e;The Teeth of the Souls."e;Grounded in broad historical research and spanning Missouri's reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, The Teeth of the Souls chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains-Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African American-into the fabric of the Ozarks.
每满100减50 探寻人类自身的秘密(8册)
探寻人类自身的秘密(8册)
¥248.77
【内容简介】 人体的故事 这是一部从现代语境出发、回溯人类历史的人体进化简史,一本从进化、健康与疾病的相互关系着手、审视人体命运的权威著作。 作为哈佛大学进化生物学教授,作者丹尼尔·利伯曼在书中汇集了多年来针对人体进化展开的深入研究,详细讲述了人类如何一步步落入了当前失配性疾病频发的泥沼。而进化无疑是帮助我们寻找病因、预防并治疗失配性疾病的一剂良方,得以让我们重新思考人类的过去、现在和未来! 人类存在的意义 在《人类存在的意义》中,威尔逊从个体选择和群体选择的角度,解释了人性本身包含的自私和利他共生的特点,这种内在有冲突性的进化过程还在继续。不同的是,随着科技的发展,进化已经从自然选择转变为意向选择,也就是人类已经意识到了进化选择过程,并开始通过科技的发展创造性地塑造自身的进化过程。在这一过程中,我们需要对人类存在的意义这个终极命题进行思考,探寻社会进化的源动力。 生命的法则 大肠杆菌和大象受同一自然法则制约,这就是——生命的法则!在分子层面上,过高的胆固醇会导致心血管疾病,基因突变会导致各种癌症,从本质上看,它们都是与调节失控有关的疾病。在塞伦盖蒂草原上,动物的地位并不平等,关键物种的作用举足轻重,它们的影响会向下延伸至更多的营养层级。同一营养层级的物种,也会为生存而相互竞争。然而,分子层面和生态系统中的调节都遵循着同样的普适逻辑——正向调节、负向调节、双重负向调节和反馈调节机制无处不在。 创造的本源 社会生物学鼻祖爱德华?威尔逊本书中提出了一个宏伟的命题:重振哲学。书中有着更多的跨学科交叉,不局限于人类自身的历史观,个性鲜明的立论足以从不同角度启发读者。从一个全新的维度,向我们阐释了创造的本质,让我们更好地理解了创造如何产生、如何繁盛这一问题,把对科学的理解融入了人文之中。 人类起源的故事 大卫·赖克从古人类遗骨中提取DNA,从基因层面还原了人类祖先的面貌。原来,我们的先祖在地球上已经上演了几百万年的“权力的游戏”:在任何一片大陆上,人群都经历了多次毁灭与更迭;所有当代人的祖先都拥有一段复杂难辨的混血史,没有人是“纯种”;千百万年来的种族、性别、阶层不平等在我们每个人的DNA里都留下了深深的刻痕。 面对DNA序列分析这种可靠的技术,我们以前所以为的所有关于人类演变的知识,凡是跟这本书所代表的当前科学理解不一样的,都只能改写。 生存 《生存》是一部关于生存与进化的“新博物学”,一部海洋世界版的 “博弈论”,一个别开生面的“生物学思维大课堂”。它在展现大量生物学和生态学前沿性知识的同时,提供了一系列海洋生命在环境下的疯狂生存策略和创新案例,这些案例让我们称赞叫绝的同时,也给身处不确定性和复杂度极高的商业环境中的我们带来灵感火花和深刻的洞察力。 神秘的量子生命 酶促反应,光合作用,嗅觉,鸟类的磁感应,基因的复制,心智之谜,生命的起源,这种种现象都与神秘的量子世界有关。物理世界有三个层次,层是宏观世界,遵循牛顿运动力学法则,第二层次是热力学世界。遵循热力学法则。深的第三层是量子世界。在这个维度里,原子、分子以及组成它们的所有成分粒子都遵循精确而有序的量子规则。 上帝的手术刀 这本书从孟德尔神父的“豌豆试验”入手,用跌宕起伏、起承转合的文学讲述手法,在全书中埋下层层伏笔,抖出了一个又一个的重磅包袱,宛如一位智者在科学之树下摇着扇子对基因编辑的历史脉络娓娓道来。其内容之深入浅出、讲述手法之驾轻就熟,令人手不释卷。 一本细致讲解生物学热门进展的科普力作,一本解读人类未来发展趋势的精妙“小说”。 【编辑推荐】 人体的故事 继《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》和《人类简史》之后,又一本讲述人类进化史的有趣著作!倾听600万年的人体进化简史,了解人体每个部分的进化源头,寻找现代疾病的进化良方。趣味与严谨兼备,前沿与实用相融。 人类存在的意义 爱德华·威尔逊继《生命的未来》《缤纷的生命》《半个地球》之后又一聚焦人类与其他物种的相互关系,探寻人类存在的终极意义的倾情力作! “社会生物学之父”、两届普利策奖得主、进化生物学先驱、殿堂级的科学巨星爱德华·威尔逊重磅新书! 北京大学哲学系教授刘华杰,美国前副总统阿尔?戈尔倾情推荐。 生命的法则 美国两院院士、伟大的科普作家肖恩·B·卡罗尔重磅新书!《金融时报》十佳科学图书,《自然》Top20好书。 商业思想家吴伯凡、财讯传媒首席战略官段永朝、北京大学教授谢灿、厦门大学教授王传超、“社会生物学之父”爱德华·威尔逊、美国国家科学院院士尼尔·舒宾、《基因传》《众病之王》作者悉达多·穆克吉联袂推荐! 生态系统中,有些动物比其他动物更平等,把握这些关键物种,我们才能在大灭绝时代力挽狂澜,重造美好家园。 创造的本源 继《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》之后,爱德华?威尔逊基于人类的命运,提出了有一个历史性的大问题:科学与人文的融合如何带来人类的演进? “社会生物学之父”、两届普利策奖得主爱德华?威尔逊全新力作! 人类起源的故事 这不仅仅是一本书,还是科学进入历史领域的里程碑。本书作者大卫·赖克是古人类DNA领域的领跑者,哈佛医学院遗传学系教授。2013年到2018年,赖克的古DNA实验室生产了7 000多份古人类全基因组数据,占全世界总量的一半以上。作为古DNA革命的领头人,他义不容辞花费3年写出了《人类起源的故事》这本领域奠基之作,以古DNA这个非凡的视角,向读者提供了一幅人类历史的清晰画卷。 这是一本给全人类的寻根指南,一部人类祖先的疯狂混血史。大卫·赖克从当代人和古人DNA中挖掘信息,描绘了一幅数十万年的人类起源、迁徙、演化和混合的宏大地图。他厘清了欧洲人、印度人、东亚人、美洲人、非洲人的历史变迁,得出一个惊人的结论:人类大家庭根本不是一棵枝干分明的树,而是一张疯狂混血的网。 生存 斯坦福大学杰出海洋生物学教授史蒂芬·帕鲁比和美国知名科学作家安东尼·帕鲁比联袂巨献。 海洋世界版的“博弈论”,生存与进化的“新博物学”,别开生面的“生物学思维大课堂”。首次探秘海洋里的10种神奇的生命:古老之、微小之、深水之、浅水之、长寿之、速度和旅程之、高温之、低温之、古怪家庭之。 神秘的量子生命 媲美薛定谔《生命是什么》,量子生物学奠基之作!北京大学生命科学学院教授动物磁感应受体基因和“生物指南针”发现者倾情推荐。亚马逊科学图书、《纽约时报》畅销书;《经济学人》《金融时报》年度好书;英国皇家学会温顿奖获奖图书。 上帝的手术刀 听会讲故事的科学家讲前沿的人类基因编辑技术,感受科学研究的磅礴气势和能量。趣味与知识兼备,前沿与实用相融。学术权威,实业精英,科普达人,畅销书作者 各界人士倾力推荐。 湛庐文化出品。
每满100减50 风云变幻的英国兴衰史(套装共5册)
风云变幻的英国兴衰史(套装共5册)
劳伦斯・詹姆斯,戴维・雷诺兹等
¥248.00
本套装包括《大英帝国的崛起与衰落》《大英帝国与*次世界大战》《维京时代与英格兰:北欧勇士征服英格兰的传奇和历史》《亨利八世与都铎王朝:“多面暴君”和他的传奇帝国》《大英帝国3000年:全新视角评估英国历史,细述帝国的崛起与衰落》
每满100减50 《资本论》轻松读(全三册)
《资本论》轻松读(全三册)
的场昭弘
¥248.00
150余年前,伟大导师马克思根据观察到的资本主义经济危机与革命,写出了划时代的巨著《资本论》。他在黑格尔辩证法的基础上,颠覆了传统的“形而上学”唯物主义,建立起一个在现实中能得以实践的社会思想体系,一个影响到地球50%以上人口的体系。在书中他指出,资本和劳动的关系,其实就是现代社会全部体系赖以运转的轴心。而在该书出版150年后的今天,仍旧在被人们反复阅读和研习。 日本经济学教授的场昭弘,结合自己在“二战”后数十年以来关于马克思主义的研究经验,对《资本论》行了补充和发挥,将《资本论》与现代经济发展相结合,独创出《<资本论>轻松读》一书,将人们对《资本论》的研究又向前推了一大步。
每满100减50 这才是孩子爱看的山海经.全五卷
这才是孩子爱看的山海经.全五卷
于春娥 著 方 艺 绘
¥248.00
《这才是孩子爱看的山海经》*册之神人英雄,主要讲述了山海经中各种神人、仙人、异人的故事,这些人有些已经随历史的演变逐渐走入了传说,成为了中华民族共同记忆的一部分,作为中国神话传说的起点,山海经将这些人还原到了*初的模样,读者通过阅读本册,可以一窥这些传说在源头是怎样的一幅景象。 《这才是孩子爱看的山海经》第二册之异域远国,主要讲述了山海经中各种奇奇怪怪的国家,古人说山海经是一本博物和地理知识,而本册侧重的就是山海经中的地理元素,打开本册读者可以了解带着老虎出门的君子国、人长着三个脑袋的三首国,这些有趣的记录会让读者畅想那个蒙昧的时代,我们的祖先是怎样将地理异化成传说的。 《这才是孩子爱看的山海经》第三册之鸟兽鱼虫,主要讲述了山海经中各种神奇动物的故事,有天上飞的鸟类、地下跑的兽类、水里游的鱼类,读者阅读本册能够了解到上古时期的神奇生物,更能够在其中找到我们祖先在蒙昧时期,对于一些现在仍然存在的动物的神奇观察。 《这才是孩子爱看的山海经》第四册之奇枝怪叶,主要讲述了山海经中记录的各种植物,作为山海经中*为准确的一部分,大多数植物在今天仍然存在,因此本册也是山海经中*有现实对照意义的一册,读者阅读本书的时候,可以对照着想一想我们的祖先是怎么认为沙棠书可以治溺水、苦辛草可以治疟疾的,替祖先开一开脑洞,也不失为一种别样的乐趣。 《这才是孩子爱看的山海经》第五册之怪物异兽,主要讲述了山海经中记载的上古时期各种神奇兽类的故事,神鸟凤凰有怎样美丽的传说?无面帝江又为何被归为瑞兽一类?各种妖兽都有着怎样的异能?各种凶兽又应该怎样降服?这些在本册中都能寻找到答案。
每满100减50 中国名家经典集(全8册)
中国名家经典集(全8册)
戴望舒
¥248.00
用残损的手掌抚摸记忆,在寂寞的雨巷邂逅诗歌 戴望舒是中国现代杰出的诗人、翻译家和古典文学学者,被称为“现代派”诗人的领袖。他有着浓厚的文化修养和艺术才能,在毕生的文学实践中走出了一条自己的路。本书收录了戴望舒的经典诗歌、散文、短篇小说和他的部分翻译作品,基本上反映了作者的创作思想和艺术魅力。
每满100减50 景观设计材料手册. 植物篇
景观设计材料手册. 植物篇
周厚高
¥248.00
  本书收录了800多种园林常见植物及其品种。注重植物品种的实用功能及其造景效果。此书以植物应用区域的不同分类,从植物形态到其特有的传统含义,书中都有详细的介绍。图片多以景观图为主,表现植物在实际应用中的景观效果。符合园林景观设计师工作的实际需求。
每满100减50 那些让你更睿智的科学新知(套装共12册)
那些让你更睿智的科学新知(套装共12册)
[美]莱昂纳德·萨斯坎德 等
¥247.80
●《理论*小值:经典力学》是理论物理学家、弦论创始人莱昂纳德·萨斯坎德联合物理爱好者 乔治·拉保夫斯基的全新作品。全书的结构简洁,语言优雅,是一本经典物理学的入门书。在国 外一经上市,就得到了广大师生的追捧。 ●萨斯坎德和乔治·拉保夫斯基善于运用清晰的逻辑一步步让读者对他们所讲述的内容进行理 解,他们通过11讲,讲述了经典物理学的本质,揭示了运动、动力学、能量、*小作用量、 对称性和守恒定律以及角动量、电力与磁力等关键原理与概念。旨在引领读者去欣赏理论物理 之美,深入浅出,层层推进,引人入胜。 ●《理论*小值:经典力学》属于湛庐文化重磅推出的“科学大师”系列图书之一。此系列还 包括《理论*小值:量子力学》《理论*小值:相对论与经典场论》,这些书即将由湛庐文化 2021年策划推出。
每满100减50 海草房
海草房
荒野
¥247.50
《海草房》是一本以胶东半岛的海草房为主题的摄影作品集。《海草房》的摄影作品全是用5×7技术相机拍摄黑白胶片拍摄。海草房在淡雅的色调中,一幅幅呈现。暗部与亮部,还有那过渡的中间色调当中,蕴含着早春、仲夏、深秋与晚冬,藏匿着海草房的温情与呼唤。作者拍摄的影像里面情节内容拨动了人们的心弦,他所纪录的影像也为逝去的时间和空间留下了某种佐证。了详实可靠影像凭证。
Political Peoplehood
Political Peoplehood
Smith, Rogers M.
¥247.21
For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of "e;political peoples,"e; a category that is much broader and more fluid than legal citizenship, enabling Smith to offer rich new analyses of political communities, governing institutions, public policies, and moral debates.This book gathers Smith's most important writings on peoplehood to build a coherent theoretical and historical account of what peoplehood has meant in American political life, informed by frequent comparisons to other political societies. From the revolutionary-era adoption of individual rights rhetoric to today's battles over the place of immigrants in a rapidly diversifying American society, Smith shows how modern America's growing embrace of overlapping identities is in tension with the providentialism and exceptionalism that continue to make up so much of what many believe it means to be an American.A major work that brings a lifetime of thought to bear on questions that are as urgent now as they have ever been, Political Peoplehood will be essential reading for social scientists, political philosophers, policy analysts, and historians alike.
Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Derek G. Neal
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What did it mean to be a man in medieval EnglandMost would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated. Marshalling a wide array of colorful evidence-including legal records, letters, medical sources, and the literature of the period-Derek G. Neal here plumbs the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. He discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities. By carefully exploring the social, physical, and psychological aspects of masculinity, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England offers a uniquely comprehensive account of the exterior and interior lives of medieval men.
The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
Marjorie Perloff,Craig Dworkin
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Sound-one of the central elements of poetry-finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkinbreak that critical silence to readdress some of thefundamental connections between poetry and sound-connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies.Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, the contributors to The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound explore such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme,the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose, theconnections between "e;sound poetry"e; and music, between the visual and the auditory, the role of the body in performance, and the impact of recording technologies on the lyric voice. Along the way, the essaystake on the "e;ensemble discords"e; of Maurice Scve's Dlie, Ezra Pound's use of "e;Chinese whispers,"e; the alchemical theology of Hugo Ball's Dada performances, Jean Cocteau's modernist radiophonics, and an intercultural account of the poetry reading as a kind of dubbing.A genuinely comparatist study, The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound is designed to challenge current preconceptions about what Susan Howe has called "e;articulations of sound forms in time"e; as they have transformed the expanded poetic field of the twenty-first century.
Romantic Things
Romantic Things
Jacobus, Mary
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Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in Romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art.?Jacobus discusses objects and attributes that test our perceptions and preoccupy both Romantic poetry and modern philosophy. John Clare, John Constable, Rainer Maria Rilke, W. G. Sebald, and Gerhard Richter make appearances around the central figure of William Wordsworth as Jacobus explores trees, rocks, clouds, breath, sleep, deafness, and blindness in their work. While she thinks through these things, she is assisted by the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Helping us think more deeply about things that are at once visible and invisible, seen and unseen, felt and unfeeling, Romantic Things opens our eyes to what has been previously overlooked in lyric and Romantic poetry.
Socrates and the Jews
Socrates and the Jews
Leonard, Miriam
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"e;What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"e; Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, Socrates and the Jews explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.Exploring the tension between Hebraism and Hellenism, Miriam Leonard gracefully probes the philosophical tradition behind the development of classical philology and considers how the conflict became a preoccupation for the leading thinkers of modernity, including Matthew Arnold, Moses Mendelssohn, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. For each, she shows how the contrast between classical and biblical traditions is central to writings about rationalism, political subjectivity, and progress. Illustrating how the encounter between Athens and Jerusalem became a lightning rod for intellectual concerns, this book is a sophisticated addition to the history of ideas.
Brushstroke and Emergence
Brushstroke and Emergence
Herbert, James D.
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No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic individuality and freedom from convention.Yet the question of how much we can credit to the individual brushstroke is complicated-and in?Brushstroke and Emergence, James D. Herbert uses that question as a starting point for an extended essay that draws on philosophy of mind, the science of emergence, and art history. Brushstrokes, he reminds us, are as much creatures of habit and embodied experience as they are of intent. When they gather in great numbers they take on a life of their own, out of which emerge complexity and meaning. Analyzing ten paintings by Courbet, Manet, Czanne, Monet, Seurat, and Picasso, Herbert exposes vital relationships between intention and habit, the singular and the complex. In doing so, he uncovers a space worthy of historical and aesthetic analysis between the brushstroke and the self.
Back to the Breast
Back to the Breast
Martucci, Jessica
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After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the '70s, Jessica Martucci reveals here that the true story is more complicated. Despite the widespread acceptance and even advocacy of formula feeding by many in the medical establishment throughout the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, a small but vocal minority of mothers, drawing upon emerging scientific and cultural ideas about maternal instinct, infant development, and connections between the body and mind, pushed back against both hospital policies and cultural norms by breastfeeding their children. As Martucci shows, their choices helped ideologically root a "e;back to the breast"e; movement within segments of the middle-class, college-educated population as early as the 1950s.?That movement-in which the personal and political were inextricably linked-effectively challenged midcentury norms of sexuality, gender, and consumption, and articulated early environmental concerns about chemical and nuclear contamination of foods, bodies, and breast milk. In its groundbreaking chronicle of the breastfeeding movement, Back to the Breast provides a welcome and vital account of what it has meant, and what it means today, to breastfeed in modern America.
Animal Claim
Animal Claim
Menely, Tobias
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During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like Martin's Act of 1822, which provided protections for livestock. In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely links this poetics of sensibility with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of communication. ?In the Restoration and eighteenth century, philosophers emphasized the role of sympathy in collective life and began regarding the passionate expression humans share with animals, rather than the spoken or written word, as the elemental medium of community. Menely shows how poetry came to represent this creaturely voice and, by virtue of this advocacy, facilitated the development of a viable discourse of animal rights in the emerging public sphere. Placing sensibility in dialogue with classical and early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies, The Animal Claim uncovers crucial connections between eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and post-absolutist, rights-based politics. ?
Calling of History
Calling of History
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
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A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. The Calling of History examines Sarkar's career-and poignant obsolescence-as a way into larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life.Through close readings of more than twelve hundred letters to and from Sarkar along with other archival documents, Dipesh Chakrabarty demonstrates that historians in colonial India formulated the basic concepts and practices of the field via vigorous-and at times bitter and hurtful-debates in the public sphere. He furthermore shows that because of its non-technical nature, the discipline as a whole remains susceptible to pressure from both the public and the academy even today. Methodological debates and the changing reputations of scholars like Sarkar, he argues, must therefore be understood within the specific contexts in which particular histories are written.Insightful and with far-reaching implications for all historians, The Calling of History offers a valuable look at the double life of history and how tensions between its public and private sides played out in a major scholar's career.
Wartime President
Wartime President
Howell, William G.
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"e;It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,"e; wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding Fathers. And yet, for all that has been written on the topic, we still lack a solid empirical or theoretical justification for Hamilton's proposition.?For the first time, William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski systematically analyze the question. Congress, they show, is more likely to defer to the president's policy preferences when political debates center on national rather than local considerations. Thus, World War II and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq significantly augmented presidential power, allowing the president to enact foreign and domestic policies that would have been unattainable in times of peace. But, contrary to popular belief, there are also times when war has little effect on a president's influence in Congress. The Vietnam and Gulf Wars, for instance, did not nationalize our politics nearly so much, and presidential influence expanded only moderately.?Built on groundbreaking research, The Wartime President offers one of the most significant works ever written on the wartime powers presidents wield at home.
Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Uroskie, Andrew V.
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Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence,?Between the Black Box and the White Cube?travels back to the 1950s and 1960s, when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art.?Explaining that the postwar expanded cinema was a response to both developments, Andrew V. Uroskie argues that, rather than a formal or technological innovation, the key change for artists involved a displacement of the moving image from the familiarity of the cinematic theater to original spaces and contexts. He shows how newly available, inexpensive film and video technology enabled artists such as Nam June Paik, Robert Whitman, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Breer, and especially Andy Warhol to become filmmakers. Through their efforts to explore a fresh way of experiencing the moving image, these artists sought to reimagine the nature and possibilities of art in a post-cinematic age and helped to develop a novel space between the "e;black box"e; of the movie theater and the "e;white cube"e; of the art gallery. Packed with over one hundred illustrations,?Between the Black Box and the White Cube?is a compelling look at a seminal moment in the cultural life of the moving image and its emergence in contemporary art.