History occasionally produces figures whose influence on their own and successive generations is immense. Marx, Freud and Lenin had such an influence, and so, Alister McGrath argues, does John Calvin. This book provides a fresh and lucid exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. It ...(展开全部)

The French bestseller The Diary of a Nose is the story behind the creation of a perfume, from the head perfumer at Hermès. Perfume creation is an exclusive and secretive endeavour. What is day to day life like for a perfume-maker? How does the creation of a new scent begin? How do you capture the essence of a smell on the skin? For one year, Jean-Claude Ellena kept a diary of h...(展开全部)

An intimate exploration of inspiration and creativity, from the "parfumeur exclusif" of the house of Hermès. A scent has incantatory powers, capable of transporting you to your past, of kindling fantasies, of creating a vivid mise en scène—literally out of thin air. In the hands of the truly great, perfume creation is a kind of alchemy. Where does inspiration for this visceral...(展开全部)

A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

In this updated, paperback version of BEIJING JEEP, journalist Jim Mann traces the history of the stormy relationship between American business and Chinese communism through the experiences of American Motors and its operation in China, Beijing Jeep, a closely watched joint venture often visited by American politicians and Chinese leaders.

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordi...(展开全部)

This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension. Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the re...(展开全部)

阿诺尔德·J·汤因比，1889年4月14日生于伦敦，卒于1975年10月22日。英国历史学家。牛津大学毕业，曾任该校研究员（1912-1915）。第一次世界大战时期曾在英国外交部情报部工作（1915）；战后作为英国代表团的成员出席过巴黎和会（1919）。二十世纪二十年代先后担任过伦敦大学教授（1924）、皇家国际问题研究所部长（1925）、伦敦大学国际关系史教授。二次大战时期曾任英国外交部调查部长（1943-1946）。1921年他计划巨著《历史研究》，1927-1928年着手写作。 1934-1961年出版了12卷，评述世界历史。注重无文字记载的文明和欧洲以外地区文明。提出一种以分析各种文明的循环和衰落为基础的历史哲学。因其他事务(1939-1943年任皇家国际事务学会外事部研究室主任、1943-1946年任外交部研究司司长等)而中断巨著的继续写作...(展开全部)