A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors ...(展开全部)

罗伯特·菲利普Robert Philip 曾是英国开放大学的高级音乐讲师，现在是英国广播公司电台的知名主持人。他曾写作出版了深受好评的The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music 一书。他的 作品Performing Music in the Age of Recording 入围了2005年美国唱片收藏协会古典音乐类最佳研究奖。

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Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access program provides a full suite of media resources—including an ebook and premium streaming recordings of the entire Norton Anthology of ...(展开全部)

The Eighth Edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture. Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation of students, placing people at the center of the story. The narrative of A History of Western Music...(展开全部)

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of ...(展开全部)

作者尼尔•基什特尼（Niall Kishtainy），伦敦经济学院经济史系客座教授，曾任英国政府经济政策顾问和联合国非洲经济委员会经济政策顾问，著有《经济学手册》（The Economics Book）和《分钟经济学》（Economics in Minutes）。 译者张缘，财新传媒图书编辑，诗歌写作者。 译者刘婧，毕业于北京外国语大学，长期从事文化和编译工作。

约翰•萨瑟兰（John Sutherland），英国伦敦大学学院现代英语文学系诺思克利夫勋爵名誉教授，曾教授各阶段学生课程。近期著有美国耶鲁大学出版的《小说家们：小说的294段生命史》，获得广泛赞誉，其中一位书评人称赞其为“一本酷毙了的参考书”。

What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and f...(展开全部)

Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Einstein and Watson and Crick to the computer-assisted scientists of today, men an...(展开全部)