布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。

'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp lo...(展开全部)

Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins...(展开全部)

How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical linguistics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, do...(展开全部)

John Clark is Chief Executive Officer of the University of Western Sydney, Hawskbury. He was previously Director of the Speech. Hearing and Language Centre at Macquarie University. Sydney. Colin Yallop is Associate Professor in Linguistics at Macquarie and is Director of the Universty's Dictionary Research Centre.

Incorporated in this 2003 volume are the first two books in Mukai's series on moduli theory. The notion of a moduli space is central to geometry. However, its influence is not confined there; for example, the theory of moduli spaces is a crucial ingredient in the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Researchers and graduate students working in areas ranging from Donaldson or Seiberg...(展开全部)

布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。

布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。

Theory and Methods in Archaeology and Prehistory Written for complete beginners in anarrative style, Ancient Lives is aimed at introductory courses in archaeology and prehistorythat cover archaeological methods and theory, as well as world prehistory. The first half of Ancient Lives covers the basic principles, methods, and theoretical approaches of archaeo...(展开全部)