The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well ...(展开全部)

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well ...(展开全部)

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at us . . . at the very most, they whisper suggestions." He argues that human nature is not so much the result of genetic coding; rather, it is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors. With personal an...(展开全部)

埃力克（1932— ），美国生物学家、生态学家、人口统计学家、教育家。1957年获堪萨斯大学博士学位，现为斯坦福大学生物科学系人口学教授、保护生物学中心主任。1968年因《人口炸弹》一书、提出人口增长与有限资源的告诫而成名。他是美国科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士，2012年当选伦敦皇家学会会员。获约翰·缪尔奖、克拉夫奖（生态学的“诺贝尔奖”）、世界生态学奖、蓝色星球奖、杰出生态学家奖等众多奖项。有《蝴蝶与星球》、《生物学与社会》、《种族炸弹》、《地球》、《新世界，新思维》、《对科学和理性的背叛》及《钢索上的人类》等三十余部著作。尽管他的预言饱受争议，他仍然坚信人口过多对人类生存和地球环境构成直接威胁。

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

"Boarding House" shows an imaginary space of transient residence, of coming and goings, of people without homes, sheltering in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The structure is basic and fundamental and it is furnished with objects that are necessarily for an elementary existence. Remnants function here as physical symbols of events that have occurred ...(展开全部)

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)