Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this...(展开全部)

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interr...(展开全部)

This book clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; "Responsive Environments" - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings. This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is m...(展开全部)

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among p...(展开全部)

The southern Arabian desert, a quarter million square miles of sand (650,000 square kilometers), is now a place of oil wells and Land Rovers, but before the 1950s it was still known as the Empty Quarter, a place you entered only on camel and only as an Arab. Only a few white men had ever seen it, much less crossed it. From 1945 to 1950, the British Thesiger crossed it twice, li...(展开全部)

作者简介： 艾格尼丝·阿尔伯（Agnes Arber，1879—1960）英国植物学家、植物科学史家，英国皇家学会会员，她是皇家学会历史上第三位女性会员，第一位植物学女院士。1912年出版的Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470—1670是阿尔伯最早完成的学术著作，该书在1938年进行了大幅度的修改和扩增，后因其开创性影响入选《剑桥文丛》。 译者简介： 王钊，北京大学科学技术哲学博士，四川大学文化科技协同创新研发中心副研究员，学术方向为博物学史、博物学图像研究，近年来关注中外博物学图像收藏和整理，已协助清华大学科学史博物馆、浙江自然博物院等机构策划数场博物学图像展览。

作者简介： 艾格尼丝·阿尔伯（Agnes Arber，1879—1960）英国植物学家、植物科学史家，英国皇家学会会员，她是皇家学会历史上第三位女性会员，第一位植物学女院士。1912年出版的Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470—1670是阿尔伯最早完成的学术著作，该书在1938年进行了大幅度的修改和扩增，后因其开创性影响入选《剑桥文丛》。 译者简介： 王钊，北京大学科学技术哲学博士，四川大学文化科技协同创新研发中心副研究员，学术方向为博物学史、博物学图像研究，近年来关注中外博物学图像收藏和整理，已协助清华大学科学史博物馆、浙江自然博物院等机构策划数场博物学图像展览。

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