Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now exper...(展开全部)

Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now exper...(展开全部)

巴克尔（E.H. Parker），英国汉学家。他是近代来华的一名外交官兼汉学家，曾利用其长期在中国生活的便利条件对其时的汉语方言等进行了客观记录和研究。他的工作不仅具有极其鲜明的特色，还影响到了包括高本汉在内的一些著名汉学家，在西方汉学界占有重要的学术地位。

From the Kegan Paul classic collection, this is the definitive history of the Tartars up to the conquests of Ghengis Khan as seen by the Chinese, using original Chinese histories. Beginning with the first Chinese references to the nomads "whose country was on the back of a horse," Professor Parker traces the rise and fall of the seven great Tartar empires who fought the Chinese...(展开全部)

巴克尔（E.H. Parker），英国汉学家。他是近代来华的一名外交官兼汉学家，曾利用其长期在中国生活的便利条件对其时的汉语方言等进行了客观记录和研究。他的工作不仅具有极其鲜明的特色，还影响到了包括高本汉在内的一些著名汉学家，在西方汉学界占有重要的学术地位。

How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and integrate and the institutional arrangements that shape classification systems....(展开全部)

The Ten Thousand Things is a novel of shimmering strangeness—the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects te...(展开全部)

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Pain...(展开全部)

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles D...(展开全部)