This work is a milestone in Zhuang studies. It has a wide potential readership, and is set to make an impact across the fields of anthropology, religious studies, comparative literature, linguistics, and history. It will begin to redress the near total lack of Western-language sources dealing with the Zhuang people. It focues on the ancient practice of buffalo sacrifice, and al...(展开全部)

法利•莫厄特（1921—2014），加拿大国宝级作家，坚定的环保主义者，一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。其代表作有：《与狼共度》《鲸之殇》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。其中《鲸之殇》被世界反捕鲸组织奉为经典，后改编成电影 ；而由于他对海洋保护的卓越贡献，海洋守护者协会将一艘负责监控非法捕鱼活动的海洋守护船命名为“法利•莫厄特”号。

The author recounts his dramatic struggle to save a pregnant fin whale trapped in a tidal pond on the southern coast of Newfoundland

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism exp...(展开全部)

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continu ity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism ex...(展开全部)

From the author of the acclaimed The Girl with a Clock for a Heart - hailed by the Washington Post as crime fiction’s best first novel of 2014 - comes a devious tale of psychological suspense involving sex, deception, and an accidental encounter that leads to murder that is a modern reimagining of Patricia Highsmith’s classic Strangers on a Train. On a night flight from London ...(展开全部)

The Tsembaga Maring are a group of slash-and-burn farmers occupying a small territory on the northern slopes of the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Taking them to be part of a complex ecological system which includes their human neighbors as well as the flora and fauna with which they share their territory, Rappaport argues that their elaborate ritual cycle, which ostensibly ...(展开全部)

罗伊·A.拉帕波特 生于1926年，20世纪最杰出的人类学家之一，曾于1987-1989年担任美国人类学会主席。

Ken Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games (D.C. Heath, 1991), carved out a significant niche in the advanced undergraduate market; it was intellectually serious and more up-to-date than its competitors, but also accessibly written. Its central thesis was that game theory allows us to understand many kinds of interactions between people, a point that Binmore amp...(展开全部)