In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings a...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R. 鲍恩（Stephen R. Bown），畅销书作家，著有十余本关于科学史、探索史和思想史的非虚构书籍，作品被翻译成九种语言，并多次获奖，如不列颠哥伦比亚图书奖、阿尔伯塔图书奖、威廉·米尔斯极地图书奖。擅长在写作中结合传记和叙事，用富有创造性的语言刻画生动的人物形象，讲述精彩的历史，著有《1494：瓜分世界的条约与大航海时代的来临》（1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half）、《贸易与殖民：霸权公司三百年（1600—1900）》（Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900）等著作。 于振洋，复旦大学历史学系博士后，东北师范大学世界中古史研究所博士，研究方向为中世纪晚期英国经济...(展开全部)

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Jarman exposes the unexpected routes that Viking travel and trade took - and how these kings of the river were frequent travellers of the Middle East and the Silk Road. One June day late in the eighth century, Norse seafarers arrived at the English island of Lindisfarne. They waged a ...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R. 鲍恩（Stephen R. Bown），畅销书作家，著有十余本关于科学史、探索史和思想史的非虚构书籍，作品被翻译成九种语言，并多次获奖，如不列颠哥伦比亚图书奖、阿尔伯塔图书奖、威廉·米尔斯极地图书奖。擅长在写作中结合传记和叙事，用富有创造性的语言刻画生动的人物形象，讲述精彩的历史，著有《1494：瓜分世界的条约与大航海时代的来临》（1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half）、《贸易与殖民：霸权公司三百年（1600—1900）》（Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900）等著作。 于振洋，复旦大学历史学系博士后，东北师范大学世界中古史研究所博士，研究方向为中世纪晚期英国经济...(展开全部)

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings a...(展开全部)

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Jarman exposes the unexpected routes that Viking travel and trade took - and how these kings of the river were frequent travellers of the Middle East and the Silk Road. One June day late in the eighth century, Norse seafarers arrived at the English island of Lindisfarne. They waged a ...(展开全部)

Python Standard Library is an essential guide for serious Python programmers. Python is a modular language that imports most useful operations from the standard library (basic support modules; operating system interfaces; network protocols; file formats; data conversions; threads and processes; and data storage). You can't really program in Python without using it. In this book...(展开全部)

This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in diff...(展开全部)

This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in diff...(展开全部)

In the last two decades Cohen-Macaulay rings and modules have been central topics in commutative algebra. This book meets the need for a thorough, self-contained introduction to the homological and combinatorial aspects of the theory of Cohen-Macaulay rings, Gorenstein rings, local cohomology, and canonical modules. A separate chapter is devoted to Hilbert functions (including ...(展开全部)