A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown ...(展开全部)

We live in a world saturated by future-consciousness. Our lives are constructed around expectations of the future as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This volume is a conceptual tool kit for thinking about the hopes and anxieties embodied in ideas of the future. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, and ...(展开全部)

Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories , the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the time, attributes Rome's success to the greatness o...(展开全部)

Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories , the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the time, attributes Rome's success to the greatness o...(展开全部)

"The Histories" describes how a small band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus'' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions: a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account of European lake-dwellers; and far-fetched accounts of dog-headed men and ...(展开全部)

In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpieces of Western history springs to life. Herodotus of Halicarnassus—hailed by Cicero as the “Father of History”—composed his histories around 440 BC. The earliest surviving work of nonfiction, The Histories works its way from the Trojan War through an epic account of the war between the Persian empire and the Greek ...(展开全部)

让·皮亚杰（Jean Piaget，1896—1980），瑞士心理学家，发生认识论创始人。自1918年获得博士学位后，皮亚杰于1921年任日内瓦大学卢梭学院实验室主任，1924年起任日内瓦大学教授。先后当选为瑞士心理学会、法语国家心理科学联合会主席，1954年任第14届国际心理科学联合会主席。此外，皮亚杰还长期担任联合国教科文组织领导下的国际教育局局长和联合国教科文组织总干事之职。皮亚杰还是多国著名大学的名誉博士或名誉教授。 为了致力于研究发生认识论，皮亚杰于1955年在日内瓦创建了“国际发生认识论中心”并任主任，集合各国著名哲学家、心理学家、教育家、逻辑学家、数学家、语言学家和控制论学者研究发生认识论，对于儿童各类概念以及知识形成的过程和发展进行多学科的深入研究。

The definitive presentation of Piaget's developmental psychology, this comprehensive synthesis traces each stage of the child's cognitive development from infancy to adolescence.

In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatom...(展开全部)

Photography's great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary - the most important questions about photography are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine prevailing beliefs about the medium and suggest new ways to explain the history of photogra...(展开全部)