The first millennium saw a rich and distinctive artistic tradition form in Europe. While books had long been central to the Christian religious tradition, education, and culture, they now became an important artistic medium, sometimes decorated with brilliant colours and precious metals. Lawrence Nees explores issues of artist patronage, craftsmanship, holy men and women, monas...(展开全部)

Buddhist origins and discussion of the Buddha's teachings are amongst the most controversial and contested areas in the field. This bold and authoritative book tackles head-on some of the key questions regarding early Buddhism and its primary canon of precepts. Noting that the earliest texts in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese belong to different Buddhist schools, Roderick S. Bucknel...(展开全部)

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1920 edition by A. & C. Black, Ltd., London.

约翰·柏奈特(John Burnet，1863—1928),英国科学院院士，享誉世界的古典学家。1892年起担任圣安德鲁斯大学古希腊语讲席教授，直至1926年离休。柏奈特最广为人知的学术成果是他校勘出版的《牛津古典文本》系列中的五卷本《柏拉图全集》。此外，除《早期希腊哲学》外，他还有《亚里士多德的<伦理学>》《亚里士多德论教育》《柏拉图的〈斐多篇》》《希腊哲学：泰勒斯到柏拉图》《柏拉图的〈游序弗伦篇》,〈苏格拉底的申辩》和〈克里同篇>》《柏拉图主义》等开创性著作。 张家昱，都柏林大学圣三一学院哲学博士，现为南开大学哲学院助理研究员。研究领域为古希腊哲学，特别是早期希腊哲学和亚里士多德自然哲学。

When traditional view of the world and the customary rules of life had broken down, the Greeks began to feel the needs which philosophies of nature and of conduct seek to satisfy. Contents: The Milesian School; Science and Religion; Herakleitos of Ephesos; Parmenides of Elea; Empedokles of Akragas; The Younger Eleatics; Revival of Philosophy in Ionia.

For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now Stephen R. Bokenkamp introduces the reader to ancient scriptures never before published in the West, providing a systematic and easily accessible introduction to early Daoism (c. 2nd...(展开全部)

Success in your calculus course starts here! James Stewart's CALCULUS texts are world-wide best-sellers for a reason: they are clear, accurate, and filled with relevant, real-world examples. With CALCULUS: EARLY TRANCENDENTALS, Sixth Edition, Stewart conveys not only the utility of calculus to help you develop technical competence, but also gives you an appreciation for the int...(展开全部)

The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The b...(展开全部)

This is a grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marria...(展开全部)

A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of key external resources - especially metal and salt - drove the dynamics of state fo...(展开全部)