The origins of modern Daoism can be traced to the Church of the Heavenly Master (Tianshidao), reputedly established by the formidable Zhang Daoling. In 142 CE, according to Daoist tradition, Zhang was visited by the Lord on High, who named him his vicar on Earth with the title Heavenly Master. The dispensation articulated aneschatological vision of saving initiates—the pure, th...(展开全部)

巴克尔（E.H. Parker），英国汉学家。他是近代来华的一名外交官兼汉学家，曾利用其长期在中国生活的便利条件对其时的汉语方言等进行了客观记录和研究。他的工作不仅具有极其鲜明的特色，还影响到了包括高本汉在内的一些著名汉学家，在西方汉学界占有重要的学术地位。

From the Kegan Paul classic collection, this is the definitive history of the Tartars up to the conquests of Ghengis Khan as seen by the Chinese, using original Chinese histories. Beginning with the first Chinese references to the nomads "whose country was on the back of a horse," Professor Parker traces the rise and fall of the seven great Tartar empires who fought the Chinese...(展开全部)

巴克尔（E.H. Parker），英国汉学家。他是近代来华的一名外交官兼汉学家，曾利用其长期在中国生活的便利条件对其时的汉语方言等进行了客观记录和研究。他的工作不仅具有极其鲜明的特色，还影响到了包括高本汉在内的一些著名汉学家，在西方汉学界占有重要的学术地位。

路易丝·福克斯克罗夫特（Louise Foxcroft）：剑桥大学医学史博士，著有《卡路里与束身衣》《上瘾：19世纪英国鸦片烟瘾的研究》（The Making of Addiction: The Use and Abuse of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain）以及《现代更年期简史》（Hot Flushes, Cold Science：A History of the Modern Menopause），后者获得2009年英国朗文历史奖*图书。现为英国《卫报》《伦敦书评》撰稿。

When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedag...(展开全部)

When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedag...(展开全部)

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles D...(展开全部)

This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Pain...(展开全部)