andbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868. The medieval and early modern eras in Japan were largely shaped by the rise of the warrior class. After 1603, with the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japanese culture changed dramatically, but as cities grew and merchan...(展开全部)

This is the first biography of one of the most interesting and controversial social theorists of our time. Murray N. Rothbard was the founder of the libertarian movement, a radical free marketeer who came of age in the era of collectivism and fought all his life for individualism and laissez-faire against overwhelming odds. The story of his life is at the same time a cavalcade ...(展开全部)

- How did the Sun come into existence? - How was the Earth formed? - How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? - How do you define "life"? - How did the first life forms emerge? - What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate stude...(展开全部)

Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.

This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China--moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts pr...(展开全部)

“文学传奇”（纽约）盖伊·特莱斯回顾了他开拓性的职业生涯，其中突出的是他对世界上隐藏人物的迷恋。 在这本（航空邮件）高峰之作的结尾，特莱斯向读者介绍了一个令人难忘的最后一个故事：尼古拉斯·巴萨博士的奇怪而引人入胜的全新故事，他宁愿炸毁曼哈顿的褐砂石建筑——也不愿放弃对美国梦的追求。 “纽约是一座被忽视的城市”，一位名叫盖伊·特莱斯的年轻记者在六十年前写道。他将在传奇职业生涯的余下时间里反驳这一说法，赞美大多数记者忽视的人物，他明白正是通过这些次要人物，纽约和美国的史诗故事才得以展开。受到赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的伟大短篇小说《抄写员巴特比》的启发，特莱斯重新审视了他辉煌职业生涯中刻画过的令人难忘的“无名小卒”——从《纽约时报》的匿名讣告作者到弗兰克·辛纳屈的随行人员。在这本书的最后一幕，一篇名为《巴特比医生的褐砂石建筑》的原创报道中，特莱斯介绍了一位新的“巴...(展开全部)

“Literary legend” (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many “nobodies” who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Upper East Side brownstone—and himself—rather than give up his beloved patch of NYC real estate. “New York is a city of things unnoticed,” a young reporter n...(展开全部)

While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring ...(展开全部)