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)

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)

★作者简介★ ◆伊恩•布鲁玛（Ian Buruma），当代欧洲知名学者及作家。1951年12月28日生于荷兰，早年在莱顿大学攻读中国文学，后到日本大学艺术部专研电影，并在当地旅居七年。曾担任《远东经济评论》驻香港记者，并以评论家的身份定期为《旁观者》《纽约书评》等杂志撰稿。他的大部分著作聚焦于亚洲文化，特别是20世纪的日本。其主要作品有《面具下的欲望日本》《罪恶的代价：德国与日本的战争记忆》《伊恩•布鲁玛的日本访谈：从村上春树到广岛》《阿姆斯特丹的谋杀：电影人梵高之死与宽容的限制》等。 ◆阿维赛•玛格里特（Avishai Margalit），以色列希伯来大学哲学教授，曾任教于牛津大学、哈佛大学、柏林自由大学及马克思普朗克研究所、普林斯顿大学和纽约大学等。著有《The Decent Society》《Idolatry:co-authored with ...(展开全部)

This "grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas" ( Foreign Affairs ) traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does not lead back to Islam but, in fact, back to the West itself. From nineteenth-cent...(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)

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)

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The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into service as sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast Europe. Nikolay Antov sheds fresh light on the mechanics of Islamization along the Ottoman frontier, and presents an instructive c...(展开全部)