This monumental work weaves together erudite scholarship and enticing travelogue. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts uncovers an entirely neglected story of how the West encountered China's religion, medicine, and healing practices. It challenges the reader to see how human beings encounter difference through the structure of their own thoughts and experiences. This informative, ...(展开全部)

When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West’s earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. As Westerners struggled to und...(展开全部)

焦大衛（David K. Jordan） 曾就讀史丹佛與芝加哥大學，1969年芝加哥大學人類學博士。David K. Jordan長期擔任加州大學聖地牙哥校區教授，研究專長為文化與心理人類學、宗教人類學、漢人民間信仰、社會語言學等。Jordan在研究與教學方面興趣廣泛、聲望卓著，他是研究漢人社會的人類學家中較早期的拓荒者，所著的Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors（1972），是英語世界第一本全面而完整的台灣漢人民間信仰民族誌分析m他與 D. Overmyer合著的The Flying Phoenix（1986）［中譯本《飛鸞︰中國民間教派面面觀》，2005］，是另一本研究漢人社會民間結社與扶鸞現象的開創性著作。Jordan民族誌報導中，往往能對漢人社會民眾宗教實踐進行細膩的社會與文化心理分析，並提出結構性的解釋觀點。Jordan多...(展开全部)

Offerings of various kinds - food, incense, paper money, and figures - have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle - how they are made, sold, and ...(展开全部)

Offerings of various kinds - food, incense, paper money, and figures - have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle - how they are made, sold, and ...(展开全部)

Breathe new life into your herb garden with expert Jekka McVicar. Jekka McVicar is the UK's foremost organic herb gardening expert and "Grow Herbs" puts Jekka's expertise into a fresh, up-to-date format for keen organic gardeners and herb enthusiasts. Packed with gorgeous photographs, "Grow Herbs" covers all aspects of herb gardening, including propagation and harvesting, as we...(展开全部)

Packed with practical horticultural advice as well as inspirational recipes and projects, Grow Herbs will encourage new gardeners to make herbs a part of their garden design, and shows experienced herb-growers how their plants can be put to use in the kitchen and around the house.

Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. Rescuing him from his too-vivid ima...(展开全部)

安妮拉．亞菲 Aniela Jaffé（1903-1991） 1903年出生於德國柏林猶太家庭，於漢堡大學（University of Hamburg）主修心理學，二戰時為逃避迫害移居瑞士，接受莉蓮．弗雷（Liliane Frey）的精神分析，而後被轉介給榮格，進行了長期的分析工作。 亞菲於1947至1955年擔任蘇黎世榮格學院秘書，為學院的早期規劃作出出色貢獻。1955至1961年擔任榮格私人秘書，是榮格晚年書信的整理者，也是廣為流傳的榮格回憶錄《記憶、夢和反思》（Memories, Dreams, Reflections）多數章節的執筆者。 亞菲亦是傑出的分析心理學者，極富創造力，精熟於榮格學說，在《人及其象徵》（Man and His Symbols）中寫了關於現代藝術的章節，也參與了榮格書信的德文、英文編輯工作。她的著作有《意義的神話》（...(展开全部)