The Fifth Edition of Assault on Paradise continues to offer an in-depth exploration of Arembepe, Brazil, through the lens of cultural change and environmental activism. Combining the pioneering ethnographic research of Conrad Kottak with fresh insights from co-author Richard Pace, this seminal ethnographic study provides a comprehensive view of Arembepe's evolution over the pas...(展开全部)

"Assault on Paradise" is a highly readable, instructive, and entertaining ethnography for use as a supplement in introductory anthropology courses. The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing village, where the author has conducted anthropological fieldwork from 1962 to the present. This revision brings the research up to da...(展开全部)

康拉德•科塔克(Conrad Kottak) (生于1942年10月6日，美国佐治亚州亚特兰大)是一位美国人类学家。科塔克从事田野工作的地点遍及世界各地，包括巴西（1962年起）、马达加斯加（1966年起）与美国。他的主要研究兴趣，在于地方文化如何被整合（以及抗拒整合）进入较大的体系中。这项兴趣将他早年对非洲与马达加斯加的生态与国家形成的研究，连结到最近关于全球化变迁、国家与国际文化，以及大众传播媒体的研究。他目前是密歇根大学的人类学教授，他从1968年起在该校任教。他相信许多美国的传说故事，例如星舰奇航记、星际大战与感恩节的故事，已发展成一种神话，有朝一日可与希腊神话、罗马神话相提并论，或者是现在的一些故事被认为是神话。 科塔克因其学术工作成就，获颁多项殊荣：1992年他荣获密歇根大学文学、科学与艺术学院的杰出教学奖。1999年，美国人类学会颁给科...(展开全部)

康拉德•科塔克(Conrad Kottak) (生于1942年10月6日，美国佐治亚州亚特兰大)是一位美国人类学家。科塔克从事田野工作的地点遍及世界各地，包括巴西（1962年起）、马达加斯加（1966年起）与美国。他的主要研究兴趣，在于地方文化如何被整合（以及抗拒整合）进入较大的体系中。这项兴趣将他早年对非洲与马达加斯加的生态与国家形成的研究，连结到最近关于全球化变迁、国家与国际文化，以及大众传播媒体的研究。他目前是密歇根大学的人类学教授，他从1968年起在该校任教。他相信许多美国的传说故事，例如星舰奇航记、星际大战与感恩节的故事，已发展成一种神话，有朝一日可与希腊神话、罗马神话相提并论，或者是现在的一些故事被认为是神话。 科塔克因其学术工作成就，获颁多项殊荣：1992年他荣获密歇根大学文学、科学与艺术学院的杰出教学奖。1999年，美国人类学会颁给科...(展开全部)

"The new edition of The Little SAS Book does an excellent job of introducing SAS users to the basics of accessing data, basic analysis, and reporting. It addresses these concepts in an easy-to-understand but comprehensive manner. It also includes the latest and greatest of pertinent new additions to SAS software. But most importantly, it weaves best practices and standards thro...(展开全部)

"The new edition of The Little SAS Book does an excellent job of introducing SAS users to the basics of accessing data, basic analysis, and reporting. It addresses these concepts in an easy-to-understand but comprehensive manner. It also includes the latest and greatest of pertinent new additions to SAS software. But most importantly, it weaves best practices and standards thro...(展开全部)

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text su...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 For nearly a quarter century "Molecular Biology of the Cell" has been the leading cell biology textbook. This tradition continues with the new Fifth Edition, which has been completely revised and updated to describe our current, rapidly advancing understanding of cell biology. To list but a few examples, a large amount of new material is presented on epigenetics; stem...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 For nearly a quarter century "Molecular Biology of the Cell" has been the leading cell biology textbook. This tradition continues with the new Fifth Edition, which has been completely revised and updated to describe our current, rapidly advancing understanding of cell biology. To list but a few examples, a large amount of new material is presented on epigenetics; stem...(展开全部)

作者简介 作者：(美国)斯图亚特·雷切尔斯 (Stuart Rachels) 译者：杨宗元 詹姆斯·雷切尔斯(James Rachels，1941-2003)亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校哲学教授。著有《生命的终点：安乐死与道德》(The End Of Life：Euthanasia and Morality,1986)、《由动物创生——达尔文主义的道德意义》(Created from Animals：The Moral Implications of Darwinism，1990)、《哲学的问题》(Problems from Philosophy,2005)、《伦理学能够提供答案吗》(Can Ethics Provide Answers，1997)。