Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee of...(展开全部)

In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry, Travers argues that the East India Company consolidated its territorial power in the conquered province of Bengal by co-opting and transforming late Mughal, Persianate practices of...(展开全部)

Hilarious sequel to The Cow That Laid an Egg Marjorie the cow is terribly excited. She's going to enter her daughter, Daisy, in the baby cow contest. Daisy has been a very special cow ever since the day that she surprised everyone by hatching out of an egg! Marjorie feels sure that Daisy will win, hooves down. But the other mothers are starting to talk...Daisy isn't quite lik...(展开全部)

Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilization and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history of the exploration and exploitation by Chinese and Arab travellers, and by the ...(展开全部)

阎连科 1958年出生于河南嵩县田湖，1978年应征入伍，1979年开始写作，1991年毕业于解放军艺术学院文学系，现为中国人民大学文学院教授、香港科技大学冼为坚中国文化客座教授。 曾获第一、二届鲁迅文学奖及第三届老舍文学奖，入围2012年度法国费米娜文学奖短名单、2013年布克国际文学奖短名单；获得第十二届马拉西亚花踪世界华文文学奖、2014年卡夫卡文学奖、2015年日本推特文学奖、2016年第六届世界华文长篇小说奖“红楼梦”奖。 作品已被译为日、韩、越、法、英、德、意、荷、挪威、以色列、西班牙、塞尔维亚等二十多种语言出版。 代表作品 长篇小说 《日光流年》《坚硬如水》《受活》《风雅颂》《炸裂志》 中篇小说 《年月日》《黄金洞》《耙耧天歌》《朝着东南走》 短篇小说 《黑猪毛白猪毛》 散 文 《我与父辈》《田湖的孩子》

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramped attic. The details of their day-to-day existence - the endless quest for enou...(展开全部)

A thoroughly updated and expanded new edition, Family Violence Across the Lifespan, helps students achieve a deeper understanding of the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Research from experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, criminology, and social welfare are woven together to provide broad coverage of current viewpoints a...(展开全部)

A thoroughly updated and expanded new edition, Family Violence Across the Lifespan, helps students achieve a deeper understanding of the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Research from experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, criminology, and social welfare are woven together to provide broad coverage of current viewpoints a...(展开全部)

"The most comprehensive research-based text on family violence now more accessible and visually inviting than ever before """Streamlined and updated throughout with state-of-the-art information, this Third Edition of the authors bestselling book gives readers an accessible introduction to the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Resea...(展开全部)