From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, comm...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡普兰美国智库Stratfor公司的地缘政治分析家。1952年生于纽约，长期为《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《新共和》《华尔街日报》《国际利益》等媒体撰写评论，出版的著作有《阿拉伯人》《地球末日》《帝国的野蛮》《地中海之冬》《季风帝国》《地理的复仇》《在欧洲的阴影下》《南海困局》等。 译者简介 赵秀福 山东大学外语学院教授，翻译作品《光明之子与黑暗之子》《杜威：宗教信仰与民主人本主义》《批评与文化理论种的关键问题》等。

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsi...(展开全部)

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpres...(展开全部)

TOILETPAPER Maurizio Cattelan's newest body of work comprises startling photographs done in collaboration with commercial photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published in Cattelan's limited edition magazine Toilet Paper. Colliding commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery these images mark a new phase in Cattelan's art production. This impor...(展开全部)

The animals’ homes are disappearing. Tree by tree, the forest is being cut down. Clues! There must be clues. For instance, look—there is a mysterious bear carrying an ax! But what would a bear want with so many trees? Perhaps the discarded paper airplanes littering the forest floor have a story to tell? Oliver Jeffers’ quirky, childlike humor and lovable illustrations are in f...(展开全部)

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—“Ye” means “leaf” in Chinese—reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth c...(展开全部)

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative col...(展开全部)

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—“Ye” means “leaf” in Chinese—reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth c...(展开全部)