A portrait of the landscape, animals, and people of the Arctic captures the beauty and peril of this harsh region and explains what an understanding of this unknown land means to the modern, urbanized world

A delectable collection of Theroux’s recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux’s latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies his signature searching curiosity to a life lived as much in reading as...(展开全部)

A delectable collection of Theroux’s recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux’s latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies his signature searching curiosity to a life lived as much in reading as...(展开全部)

Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874-1938) was a colonial administrator and scholar with a lifelong fascination with China who was appointed tutor to the young Puyi (1906-1967), who became emperor at the age of two. Johnston was highly favoured by the emperor, receiving several imperial titles and residing in the Forbidden City. His account of his time as Puyi's tutor, Twilight ...(展开全部)

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, "Theory in Landscape Architecture" reminds readers that the discipline of landscape ...(展开全部)

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, "Theory in Landscape Architecture" reminds readers that the discipline of landscape ...(展开全部)

何式凝，香港大学社会工作及社会行政学系副教授，博士生导师，研究领域涵盖男同性恋、女性情欲和多元关系等课题。何式凝在香港大学获社会工作硕士学位，后在英国Essex大学获得博士学位，研究成果与论文发表在众多国际知名学术期刊。她积极推动性与社会性别研究领域的理论发展，通过实证主义案例，反思女权主义理论，挑战西方学术思想的垄断。 除了教学与研究，何式凝曾主持多个电台节目，包括《形形色色何式凝》、《黄色讯号》、《一笺茶论尽天下》、《自由风，自由Phone》。近年与颜联武主持《今夜阳光灿烂》，《有武心情》和《颜式生活》, 建立另类粉丝群。 个人网站: http://[email protected] [加]曾家达，香港大学临床心理学硕士、多伦多大学哲学博士，现任多伦多大学社会工作学院副教授，博士生导师。1997年起担任中国项目主任，2008年...(展开全部)

The anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors' studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong Kong over the last fifteen years. This collection focuses on issues that have major scholastic contribution to the field, namely, the voices of women on issues of sex and desire, a...(展开全部)

Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanael--innocent, open to experience--born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanael's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . .," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples. ""An Obscure Man" swarms with life. This...(展开全部)