The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews...(展开全部)

View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" </p> This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets...(展开全部)

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of meth...(展开全部)

In this timely book, Cass R. Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking "political correctness" in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure. He shows that unjustified ...(展开全部)

With breathtaking command of medieval Muslim sources as well as the vast literature on medieval European and Muslim culture, Carole Hillenbrand has produced a book that shows not only how the Crusades were perceived by the Muslims, but how the Crusades affected the Muslim world - militarily, culturally, and psychologically.

作者簡介 卡蘿‧希爾布蘭登（Carole Hillenbrand） 西元1943年生，英國人，現為愛丁堡大學伊斯蘭與中東學系榮譽教授。早年曾先後就讀於劍橋、牛津與愛丁堡大學，並於1979年以〈賈濟拉史（西元1100年至1150年）：出自伊本・阿茲拉克・法理奇所著編年史（The history of the Jazīra 1100-1150 : the contribution of Ibn Al-Azraq Al-Fāriqī）〉一文，獲愛丁堡大學博士學位。其後留校任教，至西元2000年升任該校伊斯蘭歷史之教授一職，直至2008年退休，轉任榮譽教授至今。 在希爾布蘭登教授之學術生涯中，除了英國學術社群，如愛丁堡皇家學會（Royal Society of Edinburgh）、皇家歷史學會（Royal Historical Society）、皇家亞洲學...(展开全部)

作者簡介 卡蘿‧希爾布蘭登（Carole Hillenbrand） 西元1943年生，英國人，現為愛丁堡大學伊斯蘭與中東學系榮譽教授。早年曾先後就讀於劍橋、牛津與愛丁堡大學，並於1979年以〈賈濟拉史（西元1100年至1150年）：出自伊本・阿茲拉克・法理奇所著編年史（The history of the Jazīra 1100-1150 : the contribution of Ibn Al-Azraq Al-Fāriqī）〉一文，獲愛丁堡大學博士學位。其後留校任教，至西元2000年升任該校伊斯蘭歷史之教授一職，直至2008年退休，轉任榮譽教授至今。 在希爾布蘭登教授之學術生涯中，除了英國學術社群，如愛丁堡皇家學會（Royal Society of Edinburgh）、皇家歷史學會（Royal Historical Society）、皇家亞洲學...(展开全部)

This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis. In a new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the context of the book's original publication as well as its lasting importance. "This pioneering volume, examining as it does the...(展开全部)

Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural complexity of literary groupings and the role of these social formations in literary production of the period.