In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck, the most successful dealer in exotic animals in the nineteenth century. Building from his core business in animals, Hagenbeck eventually became even more famous for his large ethnographic exhibitions and circus ventures. Wh...(展开全部)

马林诺夫斯基(1884～1942)英国人类学家。功能学派创始人之一。生于波兰，卒于美国。1908年以全奥地利最优等成绩获得物理学和数学博士学位。后到莱比锡奥斯特瓦尔德理化实验室从事研究，受到德国心理学家W.冯特的影响。他在英国人类学家J.G.弗雷泽的《金枝》启发下，开始对人类学发生兴趣。 马林诺夫斯基在学术观点上对进化学派、传播学派和历史学派都持反对态度。他认为，物质器具和社会思想只有在具有满足人类的生物需要和社会需要时 ，才能存留和传播，若失去这种功能，便会在历史上消失。原始文化，例如宗教和巫术，对原始居民具有心理的和社会的需要，原始的氏族和部落机构，适应原始居民生活实际。因此他建议英国殖民当局采取保持原始居民机构的政策，通过原始居民的首领对原始居民实行长期统治。其著作还有《野蛮社会的犯罪和习俗》、《西北美拉尼西亚的野蛮人性生活》、《自由和文明》...(展开全部)

This definitive edition contains sixty years of Marianne Moore's poems, incorporating her text revisions and her own entertaining notes that reveal the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to create a functional website, without having to hire a developer or a designer. The best thing about WordPress—the open source software that we're going to be using—is that it has a minimal learning curve and that everyone can master it quickly. No specific website building experience is required. Having said that, this book will also appeal to everyone who wants to get a bit more in-depth with WordPress development and start working on their own plugins and themes.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to create a functional website, without having to hire a developer or a designer. The best thing about WordPress—the open source software that we're going to be using—is that it has a minimal learning curve and that everyone can master it quickly. No specific website building experience is required. Having said that, this book will also appeal to everyone who wants to get a bit more in-depth with WordPress development and start working on their own plugins and themes.

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director...(展开全部)

One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback―with three just-discovered stories. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deat...(展开全部)

This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know wh...(展开全部)

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director...(展开全部)

In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience...(展开全部)