One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

埃文斯·普里查德(Evans-Pritchard)，英国社会人类学家，曾任牛津大学教授。其依循着英国功能主义大师拉德克里夫·布朗的结构功能论而发展出了社会人类学中动态平衡论的功能主义人类学。他通过对苏丹努尔人的人类学田野研究所撰写的《努尔人》(1940)一书，已经成为人类学专业的经典著作。其最重要的贡献是在于，他指出了亲属制度中的裂变分支体系，另外对于原始认知的研究，也成为许多人类学后续研究的出发点。他的主要著作包括：《亚赞地人的妖术神谕与巫术》（1937）、《努尔人的亲属制度与婚姻》（1951）、《努尔人的宗教》（1956）、《社会人类学论集》（1962）、《原始宗教理论》（1965）等。 迈耶·福蒂斯（Meyer Fortes，1906–1983）。

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)

三岛由纪夫，日本小说家，剧作家，记者，电影制作人，电影演员，是日本战后文学的大师之一，不仅在日本文坛拥有高度声誉，在西方世界也有崇高的评价，甚至有人誉称他为“日本的海明威”，曾二度入围诺贝尔文学奖，也是著作被翻译成英文等外国语版最多的当代作家。后为极端激进政治目的自杀谏世。

Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to eradicating poverty. Kenya is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves and a vibrant culture. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he i...(展开全部)

The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honnnoji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle—but a string of strange incidents within the castle walls has him at his wits’ end. The desperate warlord’s only hope in solving these mysteries is imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon: a man named Kuroda Kanbei, one of Oda’s most...(展开全部)

作者简介 阿莱克斯．汤普森是考文垂大学政治学首席讲师。他的著作有Constructive Engagement: US Foreign Policy Towards South Africa, 1981-1988（Ashgate 1996），Get Set for Politics（With Keith Faulks and Ken Phillips, Edinburgh University Press 2003），以及U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994: Conflicts of Interests (Palgrave-Macmillan 2008).

Young samurai, do you wish to obtain the martial skills to master the Way of the Warrior? The strategic know-how to lay siege to a castle? The Zenlike composure to conduct a tea ceremony? This witty, informative and unique guide to the samurai class of early modern Japan is presented in the guise of a training manual written by a fictional samurai lord. Written by Stephen Turnb...(展开全部)