This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his Lyceum available in any language. Ga...(展开全部)

本書は、法月綸太郎のデビー作「密閉教室」のオリジナル版である。教室にあるべきはずの４８の机と椅子がすべて消え、代りにコピイされた遺書と級友の死体だけが残されていた。しかも教室はガムテープで周到に目張りされ、密室と化していたのだ。―受験校三年の工藤順也は熱狂的な探偵小説の愛好家だ。自殺か他殺か。彼が動くにつれ事件は昏迷度を深め、ついに彼がたどり着いた苦い真実とは…。本格ミステリと青春小説の美しくも哀切なキメラ。

本書は、法月綸太郎のデビー作「密閉教室」のオリジナル版である。教室にあるべきはずの４８の机と椅子がすべて消え、代りにコピイされた遺書と級友の死体だけが残されていた。しかも教室はガムテープで周到に目張りされ、密室と化していたのだ。―受験校三年の工藤順也は熱狂的な探偵小説の愛好家だ。自殺か他殺か。彼が動くにつれ事件は昏迷度を深め、ついに彼がたどり着いた苦い真実とは…。本格ミステリと青春小説の美しくも哀切なキメラ。

作者 [英]杰克·哈特内尔（Jack Hartnell） 英国东英吉利大学艺术史副教授，德国马克斯·普朗克学会科学历史研究员。主要研究领域为中世纪末和文艺复兴早期的医学、科学和艺术的跨学科研究。 译者 徐仕美，台湾大学植病所硕士，自由译者。

奥维•洛夫格伦（Orvar Löfgren），瑞典隆德大学（Lund University）欧洲民族学教授，主要关注文化分析这一新研究方法的运用与发展。其研究课题包括中产阶级生活的兴起、文化与经济，以及当下人们日常生活中常常碰到的“超负荷工作”与“劳累过度”问题等。著有On Holiday：A History of Vacationing（1999），Culture, Magic and Economy（2005），Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis（2006）等。 乔纳森•弗雷克曼（Jonas Frykman），瑞典隆德大学欧洲民族学教授，主要研究身体、记忆和近现代欧洲的日常生活。其专题研究十分广泛，包括维多利亚时代的中产阶级生活、日常习惯、欧洲文化的地方化，以及福利国家与地方文化、日常生活...(展开全部)

With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a wo...(展开全部)

Homosexuality is a taboo subject in Arab countries. Clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, while newspapers write cryptically of "shameful acts." Although many parts of the world now accept sexual diversity, the Middle East is moving in the opposite direction. In this absorbing account, journalist Brian Whitaker calls attention to the voices of men and women who are struggling w...(展开全部)

'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change. There a...(展开全部)

In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. This book argues that 21st-century sex is ultimately fated to be a balanci...(展开全部)