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)

If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. Thrifty Science explo...(展开全部)

"The Coming of Materials Science" both covers the discipline of materials science, and draws an impressionistic map of the present state of the subject. The first chapter examines the emergence of the materials science concept, in both academe and industry. The second and third chapters delve back into the prehistory of materials science, examining the growth of such concepts a...(展开全部)

西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里（Simon Sebag Montefiore），1965年在英国出生，知名历史学家，英国皇家文学学会研究员。他曾在剑桥大学攻读历史专业，著有多部历史类著作。其作品被翻译成约50种语言，先后斩获英国科斯塔传记奖、美国《洛杉矶时报》传记图书奖、等众多大奖。著有《耶路撒冷三千年》等经典历史巨著。

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。

With more than four million copies in print in 14 languages, History of Art has long been considered the indispensable art reference. Now, this classic survey of Western art returns in a thoroughly updated and expanded Sixth Edition with 150 new illustrations, completely redrawn maps, and updated bibliography and website directory. The much-anticipated new edition brings togeth...(展开全部)

史蒂文·罗杰·费舍尔是新西兰人，在奥克兰波利尼西亚语言和文学研究所的主任。他的著作包括:《破解象形文字》、《语言史》、《阅读史》、《世界尽头的岛屿:复活节岛动荡史》(2005)和《岛屿:从亚特兰蒂斯到桑给巴尔岛》(2012)，最近中信出版社出版了他的《语言的历史》（2023.7）。 译者简介： 孙宝国，男 1968年生，上海师范大学影视传媒学院院长、教授、博士生导师，上海师范大学马克思主义研究院执行院长（兼），上海高校智库▪上海师范大学都市文化产业研究院院长（兼），国家公派利物浦大学访问学者。主持省部级以上项目12项，其中国家社科基金项目2项。出版专著11部、教材1部。

A History of Nursing explores the history of nursing by investigating the earliest records of the caring profession, how it progressed and what established it along the way to becoming the nursing we

This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition.