A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poets of antiquity to contemporary writers of science fiction, from the authors of the Holy Scriptures to modern raconteurs of fairy tales, writers and storytellers through the ages have invented imaginary and mythical lands, pro...(展开全部)

安伯托‧艾可（Umberto Eco） 1932-2016，出生於義大利皮德蒙的亞歷山卓，曾任波隆那大學高等人文科學學院教授與院長。身兼哲學家、歷史學家、文學評論家和美學家等多種身分，更是全球最知名的記號語言學權威。其學術研究範圍廣泛，從聖托瑪斯‧阿奎那到詹姆士‧喬埃斯，個人藏書甚至超過3萬冊，知識極為淵博。 已發表過十餘本重要的學術著作，其中最著名的是美學研究《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》和《無盡的名單》等。 另有著作為《玫瑰的名字》、《傅科擺》、《昨日之島》、《波多里諾》、《羅安娜女王的神秘火焰》、《倒退的年代：跟著大師艾可看世界》、《別想擺脫書》、《艾可談文學》、《艾可說故事》、《帶著鮭魚去旅行》、《誤讀》、《智慧女神的魔法袋》、《康德與鴨嘴獸》、《意外之喜：語言與瘋狂》、《植物的記憶與藏書樂》等雜文、隨筆、評論集和繪本。 譯者：林潔盈 國立台灣大...(展开全部)

A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poets of antiquity to contemporary writers of science fiction, from the authors of the Holy Scriptures to modern raconteurs of fairy tales, writers and storytellers through the ages have invented imaginary and mythical lands, pro...(展开全部)

安伯托‧艾可（Umberto Eco） 1932-2016，出生於義大利皮德蒙的亞歷山卓，曾任波隆那大學高等人文科學學院教授與院長。身兼哲學家、歷史學家、文學評論家和美學家等多種身分，更是全球最知名的記號語言學權威。其學術研究範圍廣泛，從聖托瑪斯‧阿奎那到詹姆士‧喬埃斯，個人藏書甚至超過3萬冊，知識極為淵博。 已發表過十餘本重要的學術著作，其中最著名的是美學研究《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》和《無盡的名單》等。 另有著作為《玫瑰的名字》、《傅科擺》、《昨日之島》、《波多里諾》、《羅安娜女王的神秘火焰》、《倒退的年代：跟著大師艾可看世界》、《別想擺脫書》、《艾可談文學》、《艾可說故事》、《帶著鮭魚去旅行》、《誤讀》、《智慧女神的魔法袋》、《康德與鴨嘴獸》、《意外之喜：語言與瘋狂》、《植物的記憶與藏書樂》等雜文、隨筆、評論集和繪本。 譯者：林潔盈 國立台灣大...(展开全部)

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain thei...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain thei...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia. She is the author of The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics, also published by Duke University Press; coauthor of Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia; and edit...(展开全部)

In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool’s mission: marching several thousand miles into enemy territory to reconquer Jerusalem for Christendom. Against all...(展开全部)