L.G.Alexander，世界著名的英语教学权威，曾任欧洲现代语言教学委员会理事。其著作为交际教学法奠定基础，其中一些如NCE和Follow Me已成经典教材。 何其莘博士，现任北京外国语大学副校长、英美文学教授、博士生导师。著有《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》、《英国戏剧选读》和Listen to This等。

It is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian's perilous journey toward salvation.

约翰·博德利，美国当代著名文化人类学家，华盛顿州立大学人类学教授，1992-1996年任该校人类学系主任，2001年被评为人类学梅耶杰出教授，现为该校Regents讲座教授。1987年任西德兴格拉德巴赫公司科学顾问，1991-1994年为美国科学促进协会科学自由与责任委员会人权小组委员会成员，2000年任华盛顿哥伦比亚特区国家人文基金会专门小组成员。主要研究领域为原住民、文化生态学、当今社会问题。主要著作除本书外，还有《人类学与当今人类问题》以及《文化人类学：部落、国家及全球体系》。

Victims of Progress provides a global overview of the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies and the colonists and corporate developers that invaded their territories over the past 200 years to extract resources. It shows how these small-scale societies have survived by organizing politically to defend their basic human rights, and shows that they are now being impac...(展开全部)

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman , is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the m...(展开全部)

A collection of stories which explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.

This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay...(展开全部)

Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on? With wit and erudition, Ronald Wright lays out a-convincing case that history has always pro...(展开全部)

What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the...(展开全部)

An important look at why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic and social performance Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the po...(展开全部)