To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history. In this groundbreaking work-now with a new preface by the author-Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discov...(展开全部)

段义孚，是享誉世界的美国华裔人文主义地理学大师，在地理学理论、园林建筑、文学、宗教等研究领域都作出过举世瞩目的贡献。他关注人的问题，注重人性、人情，其思想见解发人深省，因而被公认为“拥有超然灵魂之正义之声”。他著作颇丰，代表作品有：《恋地情结：对环境感知、态度和价值观的研究》(Topophilia：A Studh of Environmental Perception，Attitudes ,and Values)、《经验透视中的空间与地方》(Spoce and Plac:The Perspective ofExPerience)、《撕裂的世界与自我：群体生活和个体意识》(Segmented Worlds and self:Group Life andIndividual COILSciousness)、《逃避主义》(Escapism)等等。 ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

在线阅读本书 True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference. A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust—and act on—our gut instincts. In...(展开全部)

Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred shop windows. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. In "A Philosophy of Fear", Lars Svendsen explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion, as he investigates ...(展开全部)

乔治·勒费弗尔（George Lefebvre，1874—1959） 20世纪研究法国大革命史du一无二的大家，他终生孜孜不倦地在档案中发掘，著作等身，不仅开农民研究的风气之先，而且探索了许多社会史研究方法，1937年起担任索邦大学法国革命史讲座教授，并在此创建了法国大革命史研究所，培养了好几代大革命史的研究者。 高毅 1955年出生，北京大学历史学系教授、博士生导师，中国世界近现代史研究会会长，代表作主要有《法兰西风格：大革命的政治文化》（专著）和《福柯的生死爱欲》（译著）。 周思成 北京大学历史学博士，现就职于中央党史和文献研究院，通晓英、法、德等多门语言，著有《大汗之怒：元朝征伐日本小史》。

For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder...Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he’s a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

当今，已经没有什么事儿会比吃什么喝什么还让美国人焦虑的问题了。鸡蛋是最好的蛋白质吗，或者是胆固醇炸弹吗？红酒对我的心脏有益还是对我的肝脏有害？农药、添加剂和食物生产过程会杀死我吗？在这里，食物历史学家哈维·莱文斯坦(Harvey Levenstein) 给出了很少见和受欢迎的建议：不必担心！ 在本书中，莱文斯坦揭露了产生和利用这些忧虑的人和利益方如何导致相当一部分美国人在陈述自己选择食品时的恐惧已经压倒了快乐。他讲述了一些卓越科学家曾警告人们食物含有致命细菌和毒物的故事，以及他们的继承者如何指责在食品加工的过程中剥夺了哪些重要的维生素和矿物质。这些人包括诺贝尔奖获得者梅契尼科夫(Eli Metchnikoff)，他认为酸奶将杀死在人们肠子里威胁生命的细菌，而使人活到140岁。埃尔默·科勒姆(Elmer McCollum)是维生素的发现者，他警告说如何...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)