First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture ...(展开全部)

彼得•贝尔伍德（Peter Bellwood）：国际著名考古学家，澳大利亚国立大学教授，曾任该校考古学与人类学学院院长，长期担任印度—太平洋史前协会（Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association）秘书长。主要学术专长是从考古学、语言学和遗传学角度研究东南亚和太平洋史前史、全球农业起源及人类迁徙等。著有《人类征服太平洋》（1978）、《印度—马来群岛史前史》（1985）《最早的移民：古代世界人类迁徙》（2013）、《最早的岛民：岛屿东南亚史前史和人类迁徙》（2017）等重要著作。

By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years-from the crucifixion of Jesus to the end of the second century of the common era-when Christian beliefs and practices shaped their unique moral order. Wayne A. Meeks examines the surviving documen...(展开全部)

埃斯特•博塞拉普（Ester Boserup，1910—1999），丹麦20世纪著名女性经济学家，出生于哥本哈根，于1935年从哥本哈根大学获得涵盖理论经济学和社会学、农业政策的学位。她的研究领域是经济学和农业发展，曾在丹麦政府工作，后在联合国欧洲经济委员会从事农业贸易政策方面的工作，后又在印度致力于将自己的理论运用到农业发展实践中。回到丹麦之后，博塞拉普在很多机构从事顾问工作，并创作了她一生中最重要的几部著作，其中成就深远的作品就是《农业增长的条件：人口压力下农业演变的经济学》，在该书中，她挑战了马尔萨斯学说，提出了影响深远的农业演变理论。

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based...(展开全部)

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based...(展开全部)

James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the breadth and sympathy of James Jol...(展开全部)

James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the breadth and sympathy of James Jol...(展开全部)

James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the breadth and sympathy of James Jol...(展开全部)