Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without end-of-chapter readings, this text remains the mos...(展开全部)

CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and u...(展开全部)

This alphabetically arranged handbook presents a series of concise and up-to-date accounts of the manuscript tradition and transmission of Latin texts. All authors and texts down to Apuleius which have their own independent transmission are included, together with a generous selection of later authors who may be regarded as belonging to the classical tradition.

In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were, Harpham contends, invented after World War II as an expression of American culture and character, and were advanced by their supporters as an instrument of American national interests. A...(展开全部)

In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were, Harpham contends, invented after World War II as an expression of American culture and character, and were advanced by their supporters as an instrument of American national interests. A...(展开全部)

A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of re...(展开全部)

A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of re...(展开全部)

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。