For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural...(展开全部)

卢卡奇（1885-1971），匈牙利哲学家、美学家、文学理论与文学史家。毕业于布达佩斯大学。1923年发表的《历史和阶级意识》一书，被公认为“西方马克思主义”的第一部代表作。其主要著作有：《心灵和形式》、《海德堡艺术哲学》、《青年黑格尔与资本主义社会》、《存在主义还是马克思主义？》、《美学》等。

A classic work of Western Marxism, now back in print The Destruction of Reason is Lukács’s trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed polemic against post-Hegelian German philosophy and sociology from Kierkegaard to Heidegger. The Destruction of ...(展开全部)

At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historica...(展开全部)

美国哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，先后在田纳西大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。研究兴趣为中国9-11世纪的精英社会、晚唐都城，11世纪宋辽边界，死亡与丧葬礼俗等。代表作有：《长城与北宋时期的边界概念》(The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song)，《大家族、官僚和地方实力派：晚唐中国精英的结构与流动》（Great Clansmen, Bureaucrats, and Local Magnates: The Structure and Circulation of the Elite in Late-Tang China），《宋辽边界的文化扩散与融合》（Cultural Diffusion and Hybridization along th...(展开全部)

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biog...(展开全部)

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology-was to create a German ...(展开全部)

The Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006. The Wages of Destruction won the Wolfson History Prize and the 2007 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Prize. It was published to critical praise from such authors as Michael Burleigh, Richard Over...(展开全部)

This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the United S...(展开全部)

The Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006. The Wages of Destruction won the Wolfson History Prize and the 2007 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Prize. It was published to critical praise from such authors as Michael Burleigh, Richard Over...(展开全部)