作者简介 周锡瑞（Joseph W. Esherick） 当今美国研究中国近现代史领域最有成就、最负盛名的学者之一，曾师从汉学家费正清、列文森和魏斐德。其著作《义和团运动的起源》于1987年出版后，立即获得了国际学术界的重视。先后获得美国的中国学研究的两个最高奖——费正清奖和列文森奖，以及加州大学伯克莱奖。 译者简介： 张俊义，中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员。主要研究香港史、近代中外关系史。 王栋，上海大学文学院历史系“千人计划“特聘教授。

In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and...(展开全部)

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology , James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses the science of simplicity and complexity, describing the intricate interrelationships that exist in nature between the simple (a quark in an atom) and the complex (the jaguar prowling its jungle environment). 25,000 first printing.

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the ...(展开全部)

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the village, Lakunle, the young teacher, influenced by western ways, and Sadiku, the eldest of Baroka's wives. How the Lion hunts the J...(展开全部)

This edition of Faulkner's novel is accompanied by six new critical essays, a revised backgrounds section, notes on cultural and historical contexts and a revised bibliography.

What exactly are the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the achi...(展开全部)

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squ...(展开全部)

First published in 1958, John von Neumann's classic work "The Computer and the Brain" explored the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. Von Neumann showed that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its own unique statistical language. And more than fifty years after its inception the "von Neumann architecture" - an organiza...(展开全部)