In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in ...(展开全部)

In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in ...(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking book, renowned global economist David McWilliams unlocks the mysteries and the awesome power of money: what it is, how it works, and why it matters. The story of money is the story of our desires, our genius, and our downfalls. Money is power—and power beguiles. Nothing we’ve invented as a species has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed th...(展开全部)

戴维·卡梅伦·吉坎蒂（David Cameron Gikandi） 土生土长的肯尼亚人，持有国际商务学士学位与信息技术硕士学位。 2006年，依据朗达•拜恩《秘密》所拍摄的纪录片，其幕后的创意顾问正是作者本人。 他经常在网络上参与励志工作坊，并进行励志演讲。热爱旅行以及生命的神奇与美好。

戴维·卡梅伦·吉坎蒂（David Cameron Gikandi） 土生土长的肯尼亚人，持有国际商务学士学位与信息技术硕士学位。 2006年，依据朗达•拜恩《秘密》所拍摄的纪录片，其幕后的创意顾问正是作者本人。 他经常在网络上参与励志工作坊，并进行励志演讲。热爱旅行以及生命的神奇与美好。

凯瑟琳•伊格尔顿与乔纳森•威廉姆斯是大英博物馆的专业馆长，分别精通现代货币以及罗马与铁器时代硬币。

A colorful history of coins and currency from their very beginnings. Money tells the story of coins and paper money from ancient to modern times. The book is an exciting collaboration by curators at the British Museum, home to one of the world's finest numismatic collections. Profusely illustrated with 545 color and archival images, Money traces the use of monetary exchange fro...(展开全部)

凯瑟琳•伊格尔顿与乔纳森•威廉姆斯是大英博物馆的专业馆长，分别精通现代货币以及罗马与铁器时代硬币。

Roses, musk, incense and myrrh--smells have always been associated with magic, healing and sexual power. Yet what is experienced as fragrant varies dramatically from one culture to the other and from one epoch to the next. Aroma uncovers the secret history of smells: from the perfumed banquets of ancient Greece to "the best blueberry flavor ever made", from the sweet "odor ...(展开全部)

Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its socia...(展开全部)