The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia. The history of northern peoples and cultures is inextricably linked to the technology of water transport. This is particularly true in northern Eurasia, where lakes and rivers can connect when overland summer ...(展开全部)

Spectacular works of art have recently been excavated in Filippovka, Russia. They were created from about the fifth to the fourth century B.C. by the nomadic people who lived on the steppes of the southern Ural Mountain region. The objects include wooden, deerlike creatures overlaid with sheets of gold and silver, as well as gold attachments, with representations of animals, fo...(展开全部)

Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. "The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources including literary and other forms of public and private writing, especially medical texts, as well as painting, photography, and film, folklore an...(展开全部)

"The Skin of the Sky" is the story of Lorenzo de Tena, a Mexican astronomer born in the 1930s. The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion.When his mother dies, Lorenzo and his siblings are taken to l...(展开全部)

This book provides for the first time a complete look at all of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's contributions to the great age of steamship design. From modelling boats as a child to his youthful dreams of

【著者简介】 [美] 斯蒂芬妮·波拉斯（Stephanie Porras），曾任教于考陶尔德艺术学院和哥伦比亚大学，现为杜兰大学艺术史教授。她的研究重点是15—17世纪的欧洲北部艺术，著有《彼得·勃鲁盖尔的历史想象》《北方文艺复兴艺术：宫廷、商业与虔信》《第一批病毒式传播的图像：梅尔滕·德·沃斯、安特卫普和早期现代全球》等。 - 【译者简介】 李方木，北京外国语大学文学博士，英语人文社科译者，现任山东师范大学外国语学院副教授，近期出版译著有《文艺复兴时期的威尼斯艺术：从传统到个人主义》《我和我的世界：威廉·福克纳传》等。

Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons. How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for his murdered father in the objects he left behind―an archeology of affections. Investigating and retracing his family’s trajectory through the streets of the city of Porto Alegre and the morass...(展开全部)

During the thirteenth century, the Mongols created the greatest empire in human history. Genghis Khan and his successors brought death and destruction to Eurasia. They obliterated infrastructure, devastated cities, and exterminated peoples. They also created courts in China, Persia, and southern Russia, famed throughout the world as centers of wealth, learning, power, religion,...(展开全部)