In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural re...(展开全部)

In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural re...(展开全部)

Review ' ... well-produced, with plenty of plates and specially drawn diagrams to illustrate specific points in the text ... covers a wide range of material drawn from a number of different disciplines ... particularly valuable reading for those involved with planning, especially at the broad scale.' Pam Berry, Progress in Physical Geography 'The book is full of ideas, principl...(展开全部)

查尔斯·哈丁·费尔斯(Charles Harding Firth,1857–1936)，英国历史学家，斯坦霍普奖得主，牛津大学现代史教授，英国皇家历史学会主席。主攻英格兰内战和英联邦时期的历史，其作品获得了很高的评价。 译者简介 曾瑞云，桂林电子科技大学外国语学院讲师，英语语言文学硕士，主要研究方向为英美文学。十余年来，在国内外期刊和会议上发表文章十余篇，主持广西壮族自治区科研和教改项目三项，参与编写教材一种。

查尔斯·哈丁·费尔斯(Charles Harding Firth,1857–1936)，英国历史学家，斯坦霍普奖得主，牛津大学现代史教授，英国皇家历史学会主席。主攻英格兰内战和英联邦时期的历史，其作品获得了很高的评价。 译者简介 曾瑞云，桂林电子科技大学外国语学院讲师，英语语言文学硕士，主要研究方向为英美文学。十余年来，在国内外期刊和会议上发表文章十余篇，主持广西壮族自治区科研和教改项目三项，参与编写教材一种。

阿绮波德·立德(Archibald Little，1845～926)，英国在华著名商人立德之妻，习称立德夫人。立德夫人1887年到达中国，她与丈夫在中国生活了20年，几乎走遍了中国南方的所有通商口岸。她努力了解中国家庭，研究中国的政治及教育制度。主要著作有：《在中国的婚事》(1899)、《亲密接触中国》(1899)、《穿蓝色长袍的国度》(1901)、《北京指南》(1904)，《李鸿章，他的生平和时代》、《北京我家花园的周围》(1905)等。游历、写作之外，立德夫人还对中国妇女饱受缠足陋习的荼毒极为同情，因而全力投入清末的反缠足运动。 1906年，立德夫妇离开中国，返回英国。1926年，81岁的立德夫人走完了她作为作家、旅游家和社会改革家的一生。

Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story… Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a fresh perspective on a momentous chapter in modern political history. Carles Viñas shows how the Russian game was transformed in jus...(展开全部)