◎著者简介 薛爱华（ Edward Hetzel Schafer， 1913—1991） ，美国著名汉学家， 20世纪后半期美国中古中国研究的代表人物。 1947年获得哈佛大学东方语言学博士学位，后任教于加州大学伯克利分校。 1958—1964年，担任《美国东方学会会刊》（Journal of the American Oriental Society）主编， 1974—1975年，担任美国东方学会会长。薛爱华深受欧陆传统汉学的影响，重视传统的古典文献学，同时又结合人类学、文化学的研究方法，关注民族语言、民间习俗、宗教祭祀等方面。他还精通法语、德语、意大利语、西班牙语、阿拉伯语、日语、越南语、古埃及文、拉丁文、希腊文、古英文等十几种古今语言。其代表作包括《闽国》《撒马尔罕的金桃》《朱雀》《珠崖》《神女》等。 ◎译者简介 程章灿，南京大学文学院教授。 ...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 薛爱华（ Edward Hetzel Schafer， 1913—1991） ，美国著名汉学家， 20世纪后半期美国中古中国研究的代表人物。 1947年获得哈佛大学东方语言学博士学位，后任教于加州大学伯克利分校。 1958—1964年，担任《美国东方学会会刊》（Journal of the American Oriental Society）主编， 1974—1975年，担任美国东方学会会长。薛爱华深受欧陆传统汉学的影响，重视传统的古典文献学，同时又结合人类学、文化学的研究方法，关注民族语言、民间习俗、宗教祭祀等方面。他还精通法语、德语、意大利语、西班牙语、阿拉伯语、日语、越南语、古埃及文、拉丁文、希腊文、古英文等十几种古今语言。其代表作包括《闽国》《撒马尔罕的金桃》《朱雀》《珠崖》《神女》等。 ◎译者简介 程章灿，南京大学文学院教授。 ...(展开全部)

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Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in...(展开全部)

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in...(展开全部)

A dystopian tale of a power struggle between the sexes in the post-nuclear future, perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. After a nuclear holocaust, women rule the world. Using advanced technology, they’ve expelled men from their vast walled cities to roam the countryside in primitive bands, bringing them back only for the purpose of loveless reproductio...(展开全部)

作者：乔治·胡拉尼（1913—1984），英国哲学家、历史学家和古典学者。出生于英国曼彻斯顿一个黎巴嫩基督教家庭。曾先后任教于巴勒斯坦的阿拉伯政府学院、密锡根大学近东学系、布法罗大学哲学系以及加州大学洛杉机分校。1978年曾被推举担任全美东方学会会长。其长期从教的布法罗大学在其退休后，还设立了“乔治·胡拉尼专题讲座”，专邀著名学者讲授近东与阿拉伯历史、哲学与文化。因其对哲学、古典文明和航海史等领域的研究，尤其是对中东文化的专业洞察力而受到学界广泛赞誉。 译者：孙博，1991年生于江苏徐州，2022年毕业于南京大学历史学院/中国南海研究协同创新中心，获历史学博士学位。现任中国矿业大学马克思主义学院讲师。研究领域为海上交通史、城市史。

Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries.

Richard Bird takes a radically new approach to algorithm design, namely, design by calculation. These 30 short chapters each deal with a particular programming problem drawn from sources as diverse as games and puzzles, intriguing combinatorial tasks, and more familiar areas such as data compression and string matching. Each pearl starts with the statement of the problem expres...(展开全部)

These 3 puzzles involve the proof of a basic law governing the world of numbers known to be correct in all tested cases — the problem is to prove that the law is always correct. Includes van der Waerden's theorem on arithmetic progressions, the Landau-Schnirelmann hypothesis and Mann's theorem, and a solution to Waring's problem.