A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent “Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous—and refreshing—honesty.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries...(展开全部)

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent “Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous—and refreshing—honesty.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries...(展开全部)

罗兹・墨菲 是一位中国历史和地理专家，出生于费城，1950年获哈佛大学博士学位。1964年任密歇根大学教授，此前曾经在华盛顿大学任教，也曾任台湾大学和东京大学客座教授。从1954年到1956年，他是驻亚洲外交官联合会主席。1974年获密歇根大学突出贡献奖。作为亚洲研究协会前主席，墨菲曾担任《亚洲研究杂志》、《密歇根中国研究报》以及亚洲亚洲研究协会主办的《专论》等刊物的编辑。社会科学研究理事会、福特基金会、古根海姆基金会、国家慈善捐赠会和美国学会理事会都接纳他为会员。墨菲是以为多产作家，著有《上海 进入现代中国的钥匙》（1953）、《地理学入门》（1978）、《一项新的对华政策》（与他人合作，1967）、《地理学的研究范围》（1982年第三版）、《条约口岸与中国的现代化》（1970）、《中国出迎西方：条约口岸》（1975）和《毛主义幻想的衰退》（198...(展开全部)

A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia"--India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan--from the earliest of times to the present. Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book's extensive analysis integrates the complex and diverse political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area with an engaging and liv...(展开全部)

Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic tables and maps augment and elucidate the text. The contemporary focus rests on the seven countries which make up the core of present-day ...(展开全部)

Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic tables and maps augment and elucidate the text. The contemporary focus rests on the seven countries which make up the core of present-day ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

The philosopher Antonio Negri is one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influence on contemporary political theory. His political activism and outspoken advocacy for the downtrodden have also placed him at the centre of some of the most dramatic developments in recent Italian history. Story of a Communist—th...(展开全部)