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Magazines and Modern Identities
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ideals of technological progress and mass consumerism shaped the print cultures of countries across the globe. Magazines in Europe, the USA, Latin America, and Asia inflected a shared internationalism and technological optimism. But there were equally powerful countervailing influences, of patriotic or insurgent nationalism, and of traditionalism, that promoted cultural differentiation. In their editorials, images, and advertisements magazines embodied the tensions between these domestic imperatives and the forces of global modernity. Magazines and Modern Identities explores how these tensions played out in the magazine cultures of ten diff...
Being You
A BOOK OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN , THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERG Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology. 'A brilliant beast of a book.' DAVID BYRNE 'Hugely important.' JIM AL-KHALILI 'Masterly . . . An exhilarating book: a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text.' GAIA VINCE, GUARDIAN Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? After over tw...
Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal
The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and social and sexual emancipation. Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal is a pioneering history of these periodicals, focusing on two of the leading European titles: the German monthly UHU, and the French news weekly VU, taken as representative of the broad class of popular titles launched in the 1920s. The book is the first major study of UHU, and the first scholarly work on VU in English. Modernist Magazines explores, in particular, the striking use of regularity and repetition in photographs of modernity, reading these repetitious images as symbol...
British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond
This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major cultural figures in domestic and international propaganda campaigns and throws new light on the global deployment of British propaganda and cultural diplomacy in colonial and post-colonial theatres such as Cyprus, India and Sierra Leone. Chapters re-evaluate the propaganda work of prominent writers including Arthur Koestler and Dylan Thomas in the light of new archival research, study how organisations including the BBC, British Council and Ministry of Information engaged with new media form...
身為自己
★ 2021年最佳書籍——彭博商業周刊 ★ 2021年最佳科學書籍——衛報 ★ 2021年最佳科學書籍——金融時報 ★ 2021年最佳哲學書?—五本書 ★ 2021年最佳書籍——經濟學人 「身為自己」是什麼意思？ 我們的「內在小宇宙」是如何形成的？ 世界頂尖意識腦科學專家塞斯(Seth)： 我們對世界和對自己的認知，全都是一種「受控的幻覺」 無論你是不是科學家，意識都是很重要的奧祕。對每個人而言，我們的意識經驗就是眼前的一切。沒有意識，就什麼都沒有，沒有世界、沒有自己、沒有內在也沒有外在。 而意識的奧祕最吸引人的面向�...
Come il cervello crea la nostra coscienza
Che cosa significa essere sé, ossia avere un'esperienza cosciente del mondo che ci circonda e del nostro mondo interiore? Storicamente, l'umanità ha considerato la natura della coscienza come oggetto di indagine primariamente filosofica. Oggi, però, la ricerca scientifica sta delineando teorie e spiegazioni biologiche della coscienza e del sé estremamente affascinanti e convincenti. Anil Seth, neuroscienziato e autore di chiara fama, ci aiuta qui a comprendere come il cervello crei la nostra esperienza cosciente. La sua tesi radicale è che noi non percepiamo il mondo così come oggettivamente è. Piuttosto, siamo macchine predittive: inventiamo di continuo il nostro mondo e correggiamo i nostri errori in un microsecondo. E siamo ora in grado di osservare i meccanismi biologici del cervello che creano la nostra coscienza.
The Structure of American Industry
Americans continually cross paths with major industries that comprise the U.S. economy. These industries face and raise challenging issues that in turn generate important economic questions: How are individual industries organized and structured? What share of their market do they represent? What are the major public policy issues they affect? What are the economic consequences of addressing them? A single text examining every industry would provide a disjointed, haphazard analysis. The case-study approach taken in The Structure of American Industry avoids such shortcomings. The expert author of each case studyfourteen in allpresents a comprehensive and coherent analysis of a specific industry. The holistic, in-depth treatment sparks lively interest, does not succumb to theoretical abstractions, and offers practical answers to economic questions.
