克莱夫·甘布尔（Clive Gamble），英国南安普顿大学考古学系荣休教授，英国国家学术院院士，英国皇家人类学学会前会长。在关于人类起源的考古学领域主持开展了多项研究项目，著述颇丰，代表作有《定居地球》（Settling the Earth，2013）、《起源与革命：早期史前人类身份》（Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory，2007）、《欧洲旧石器时代社会》（The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe，1999）。2005年，英国皇家人类学学会授予甘布尔里弗斯纪念奖章（Rivers Memorial Medal），以表彰他在这一领域的杰出贡献。

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where peopl...(展开全部)

克莱夫·甘布尔（Clive Gamble），英国南安普顿大学考古学系荣休教授，英国国家学术院院士，英国皇家人类学学会前会长。在关于人类起源的考古学领域主持开展了多项研究项目，著述颇丰，代表作有《定居地球》（Settling the Earth，2013）、《起源与革命：早期史前人类身份》（Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory，2007）、《欧洲旧石器时代社会》（The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe，1999）。2005年，英国皇家人类学学会授予甘布尔里弗斯纪念奖章（Rivers Memorial Medal），以表彰他在这一领域的杰出贡献。

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where peopl...(展开全部)

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish , comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that took place millions of years ago created the unique qualities of the human species? In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human an...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant.

Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton) and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. He lives in Moore, Oklahoma. Website kyleharper.net Twitter @Oklahomaharper.

Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is ent...(展开全部)

Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is ent...(展开全部)

Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton) and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. He lives in Moore, Oklahoma. Website kyleharper.net Twitter @Oklahomaharper.