本杰明·艾尔曼 Benjamin A. Elman, 1946年出生于德国慕尼黑，1980年获美国宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位，先后担任加州大学洛杉矶分校副教授、教授（1986—2001）以及普林斯顿大学东亚系和历史系双聘教授（2002-）。主要从事中国文明史、清史和 中国思想史的研究，研究领域包括中国思想文化史（1000-1900）、中国科学史（1600—1930）、帝制晚期中国教育史以及中日文化史（1600-1850）。著作主要有《从理学到朴学——中华帝国晚期思想与社会变化面面观》（1984）、《经学、政治和宗族——中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（1990）和《晚期中华帝国科举文化史》（2000）。

The world’s preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the ...(展开全部)

A subtle portrait of one of the world’s great concert artists, this volume offers a vivid presentation of Arrau’s unique and intensely felt beliefs about music and piano technique. In addition to conversations with Arrau, the author has included discussions with four of Arrau’s renowned musical colleagues: Philip Lorenz, Daniel Barenboim, Garrick Ohlsson, and Sir Colin Davis. T...(展开全部)

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump “A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book.” —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review Finalist, National Book Award 2016 One of “6 Books to Understand...(展开全部)

Arlie Hochschild is best known for her contributions to the domestic division of labor (The Second Shift), emotional labor (The Managed Heart), the rationalization of the home (Time Bind), the commodification of private life (The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Outsourced Self). In her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild takes her notion of “feeling ru...(展开全部)

Arlie Hochschild is best known for her contributions to the domestic division of labor (The Second Shift), emotional labor (The Managed Heart), the rationalization of the home (Time Bind), the commodification of private life (The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Outsourced Self). In her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild takes her notion of “feeling ru...(展开全部)

When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessme...(展开全部)

格雷格纳尔逊 华盛顿大学教育心理学博士，马萨诸塞州布里奇波特州立大学教授，主要研究学前教育与小学教育。 曾担任西雅图蒙台梭利幼儿园教师。 蒙台梭利教育课程带头人，多个数学教育委员会委员。

Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we breathe. Theorists such as Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the choreographer Rudolf Laban drew on the science of ...(展开全部)

China's rapid economic expansion raises questions internally and externally about how it will acquire the energy it needs to sustain growth. Currently it is the largest producer and consumer of coal; how much will it continue to rely on its abundant natural resource in the face of increasing environmental concerns? Will it embrace new clean coal technologies developed by others...(展开全部)