“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revol...(展开全部)

A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré ‘The Dawn Watch will win prizes. If it doesn’t, there is something wrong with the prizes’ Guardian Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technol...(展开全部)

‘The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.’ So begins F. R. Leavis’s most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author’s inclusion in any list of the finest novel...(展开全部)

‘The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.’ So begins F. R. Leavis’s most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author’s inclusion in any list of the finest novel...(展开全部)

卜正民（Timothy Brook），哈佛大学哲学博士，不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史系讲座教授，加拿大皇家学会会员，2015—2016年度亚洲研究学会（Association for Asian Studies）会长。曾任多伦多、斯坦福、牛津等大学历史学教授，不列颠哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长。主要研究明代社会和文化史、中国近代史、全球史，并担任哈佛大学出版社《帝制中国历史》主编。2005年获加拿大历史协会颁发的历史学奖项弗朗索瓦‧泽维尔‧加诺奖章，2006年获颁古根海姆学术奖。代表著作有《纵乐的困惑》《维米尔的帽子》《为权力祈祷》《秩序的沦陷》《塞尔登的中国地图》等。

卜正民（Timothy Brook），哈佛大学哲学博士，不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史系讲座教授，加拿大皇家学会会员，2015—2016年度亚洲研究学会（Association for Asian Studies）会长。曾任多伦多、斯坦福、牛津等大学历史学教授，不列颠哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长。主要研究明代社会和文化史、中国近代史、全球史，并担任哈佛大学出版社《帝制中国历史》主编。2005年获加拿大历史协会颁发的历史学奖项弗朗索瓦‧泽维尔‧加诺奖章，2006年获颁古根海姆学术奖。代表著作有《纵乐的困惑》《维米尔的帽子》《为权力祈祷》《秩序的沦陷》《塞尔登的中国地图》等。

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. ...(展开全部)

A 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for General Nonfiction Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies A Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Winner of the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest Written...(展开全部)

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. ...(展开全部)

Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place in the world? And what should be the response of those scholars who have sought to understand not the "...(展开全部)