'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans – our willingness to experiment; our ability to become addicts; our pursuit of money. This book tells us more than about opium; it tells us abou...(展开全部)

Milk—“It does a body good.” It’s difficult to deny the truth of the American Dairy Council’s former advertising campaign. From birth milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals. It is the first food we ever taste. And yet, despite that natural relationship to milk, the majority of the world’s population cannot digest it in the form most often available to adults—co...(展开全部)

From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.

作者： 海伦﹒加德纳（Helen Gardner，1908—1986），英国文学评论家，牛津大学文学博士。曾任牛津大学教授、不列颠科学院院士、美国艺术科学院院士、巴伐利亚艺术科学院院士。在玄学派诗歌以及多恩、艾略特研究领域颇为知名。著有《批评的志业》《T.S.艾略特的艺术》《捍卫想象》等。 译者： 李小均：复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外国语学院教授。著有《自由与反讽》等，译有《语言与沉默》《捍卫想象》等。

作者： 海伦﹒加德纳（Helen Gardner，1908—1986），英国文学评论家，牛津大学文学博士。曾任牛津大学教授、不列颠科学院院士、美国艺术科学院院士、巴伐利亚艺术科学院院士。在玄学派诗歌以及多恩、艾略特研究领域颇为知名。著有《批评的志业》《T.S.艾略特的艺术》《捍卫想象》等。 译者： 李小均：复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外国语学院教授。著有《自由与反讽》等，译有《语言与沉默》《捍卫想象》等。

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon i...(展开全部)

This is a contemporary and engaging student friendly text with a multinational focus conveys the dynamism of the science of psychology. Student focused features offer social context, explore interdisciplinary relationships, reinforce critical thinking and ultimately show the impact and application of the science. Each chapter of this title begins with a highly engaging vignette...(展开全部)