As aces and jokers throughout the country gather in Atlanta for a crucial Democratic convention (Ace in the Hole: Wild Cards, 6, LJ 2/15/90 ), a private investigator and a vigilante in New York City stalk the elusive killer of the notorious joker known as Chrysalis. Continuing the saga of a modern world profoundly changed by the "wild card virus," this novel blends fast-moving ...(展开全部)

As aces and jokers throughout the country gather in Atlanta for a crucial Democratic convention (Ace in the Hole: Wild Cards, 6, LJ 2/15/90 ), a private investigator and a vigilante in New York City stalk the elusive killer of the notorious joker known as Chrysalis. Continuing the saga of a modern world profoundly changed by the "wild card virus," this novel blends fast-moving ...(展开全部)

刘易斯·M.霍普费（1935—1992），1956年毕业于美国贝勒大学，取得历史学和宗教研究的学士学位；1960年，从美国西南浸信会神学院取得神学硕士学位；1965年，从波士顿大学取得旧约圣经研究的博士学位。此后于肯德尔学院担任神学教员。在教学初期，霍普费博士意识到学 生们缺乏一本学习世界宗教的指导课本。为学生们提供一本简明适当、可读性强的课本成为他的目标。基于此，第一版《世界宗教》于1979年出版。霍普费博士是一位“作家、教师、牧师、考古学家、院长、举重运动员，以及学生、同事和教区居民的精神导师”，他通过文字和语言深入诠释了这些角色。《世界宗教》是他留给学术界的遗赠。 马克·R. 伍德沃德，亚利桑那州立大学宗教研究领域的副教授，加札马达大学（印度尼西亚）宗教与跨文化研究中心比较宗教学客座教授。他从伊利诺伊大学取得文化人类学博士学位，并曾在芝加哥神学...(展开全部)

This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures d...(展开全部)

Le 5 mars 1616, un décret de la Congrégation de l'Index annonçait officiellement la condamnation des idées de Copernic sur le mouvement de la Terre. Cette censure ecclésiastique est devenue l'emblème d'une négation de l'autonomie de la recherche scientifique par les dogmes religieux. Aujourd'hui, la question des relations entre sciences et religions et des appels au "dialogue" ...(展开全部)

This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them for example, to gen...(展开全部)

This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them for example, to gen...(展开全部)

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that ha...(展开全部)