Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, "The" Not "So Wild, Wild West" casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation rather than conflict. Rather than describing the frontier as a place where heroe...(展开全部)

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, "The" Not "So Wild, Wild West" casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation rather than conflict. Rather than describing the frontier as a place where heroe...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

Very little is known about the issue of wildlife conservation within China. Even China specialists get a meager ration of stories about pandas giving birth in zoos, or poachers in some remote setting being apprehended. But what does the future hold for China's wildlife? In this thoughtful work the leading U.S. expert on wildlife projects in Western China presents a multi-facete...(展开全部)

Very little is known about the issue of wildlife conservation within China. Even China specialists get a meager ration of stories about pandas giving birth in zoos, or poachers in some remote setting being apprehended. But what does the future hold for China's wildlife? In this thoughtful work the leading U.S. expert on wildlife projects in Western China presents a multi-facete...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of ...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

“An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though weÂ’re laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earthÂ’s surface.” —Bill McKibben Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archip...(展开全部)