At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historica...(展开全部)

In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the individual and larger ...(展开全部)

In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of viole...(展开全部)

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by a rare i...(展开全部)

埃本•亚历山大（Eben Alexander） 美国知名神经外科医生。在过去的20多年中，一直都做着神经外科医生的工作和相关领域的研究。他曾在布莱根妇幼医院和哈佛医学院供职。 其作品《天堂的证据》一经面世就在国际出版界引起轰动，之后一个月内卖出英国、德国、荷兰、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国等35国版权。 想了解关于他更多的信息，请访问www.lifebeyonddeath.net。

Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But all this was set to change. One morning in 2008 he fell into a coma after suffering a rare form of bacterial meningitis. Scans of his brain revealed massive damage...(展开全部)

埃本•亚历山大（Eben Alexander） 美国知名神经外科医生。在过去的20多年中，一直都做着神经外科医生的工作和相关领域的研究。他曾在布莱根妇幼医院和哈佛医学院供职。 其作品《天堂的证据》一经面世就在国际出版界引起轰动，之后一个月内卖出英国、德国、荷兰、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国等35国版权。 想了解关于他更多的信息，请访问www.lifebeyonddeath.net。

Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as that of the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about the bloody history of the conquest without falling into communitarian traps? Conquest and Community is Shahid Amin’s answer. Covering more th...(展开全部)

Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Dr...(展开全部)