As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies of North China's leading Catholic bishop of the time, Alphonse Favier (1837-1905), and the Beitang cathedral, epicenter of the Roman Catholic mission in China through incarnation...(展开全部)

The “riveting”( The Washington Post ) #1 international bestseller—now in paperback in the U.S. In the tradition of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth , here is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war, set in the golden age of 14th-century Barcelona. Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona and joins the powerful guild of stone-wor...(展开全部)

Cathedral of the Sea, by Ildefonso Falcones is the literary successor to Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth. A debut novel about faith, freedom, and love, Cathedral of the Sea is set during the construction of Barcelona’s greatest landmark and against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Spain in the year 1320 is a place of great danger. Bernat Estanyol and his infant son Ar...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Brett Miller pieces together the compelling and painful story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her brilliantly crafted poems.

【作者简介】 托马斯·特拉维萨诺（Thomas Travisano），“伊丽莎白·毕肖普学会”创始主席，现为哈特威克学院英语系名誉教授。著有《伊丽莎白·毕肖普：艺术历程》和《20世纪中叶四重奏：毕肖普、洛威尔、贾雷尔与贝里曼》，编辑《空中的言辞：伊丽莎白·毕肖普与罗伯特·洛威尔通信全集》《21世纪的伊丽莎白·毕肖普》以及三卷本《美国新诗选》（合编），专著《未知的爱：伊丽莎白·毕肖普传》获得古根海姆奖金、美国国家人文基金会奖金以及美国哲学学会的支持。 【译者简介】 杨东伟，译者，诗歌研究者，译有《十扇窗：伟大的诗歌如何改变世界》《未知的爱：伊丽莎白·毕肖普传》《最后的凝望，最后的诗章》（即出）。

One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson’s Darwin’s Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary theory of religion that shakes both evolutionary biology and social th...(展开全部)

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development ...(展开全部)

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's ""Century of Humiliation"" whe...(展开全部)

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

《The Government and Politics of China 中国的政府与政治》内容简介：This book has several parts. Chapters Ⅱ and Ⅲ are brief reviews of the political ideas and institutions of ancent China. The four chapters that follow give a brief account of political and institutional development during the generation preceding the Kuomintang Government of 1928. Chapters VIII and IX describe the Kuomintang a...(展开全部)