East to East describes a journey from Eastern Europe to China, bringing together work made over an extended period of time. Klavdij Sluban's use of deep blacks and backlit silhouettes imbues his work with a highly individual photographic style. These powerful images are remarkably moody and atmospheric. Published simultaneously in six countries in six languages. Klavdij Slub...(展开全部)

At a time when the world was politically divided into East and West, Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert’s quest for light and sensuality led him to capture the colours of two very different worlds: the vibrant glitziness of Las Vegas and Los Angeles in 1981 and the austere restraint of Moscow in 1989, just before the fall of the Soviet Union. Although his intention was not to d...(展开全部)

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

盖尔•伦德斯塔德（Geir Lundestad），挪威最有影响力的历史学家之一，挪威奥斯陆大学国际关系史教授。主要研究领域为国际关系史、美欧关系、美国对外政策等。伦德斯塔德笔耕不辍、著述颇丰，就国际政治及美欧关系发表了海量的著述，是这一领域具有全球影响的主要学者。主要作 品有《20世纪的战争与和平》、《二战以来的美国与西欧》、《美帝国的崛起与衰落》、《冷战后的国际关系》、《大国的衰落》等。 吴征宇，历史学博士，中国人民大学国际关系学院教授，博士生导师。主要从事国际关系思想与理论、战略研究等方面的教学与研究，先后在英国杜伦大学政治学系、美国伊利诺伊大学（厄巴纳-香槟）东亚与太平洋研究中心、英国伦敦经济学院从事访学和博士后研究工作。已出版个人学术专著三部、译著 两部（合译），并在各类核心期刊及海外学术杂志上发表学术论文四十余篇。

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn t be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in ...(展开全部)

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

This title is extracted from Volumes 10, 11, 13, and 18. It includes Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower", Psychological Commentary on "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" and "The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation", Foreword to Suzuki's Introduction to Zen Buddhism, and Foreword to the I Ching.

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how B...(展开全部)