Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to th...(展开全部)

THE EARLIEST TOCHARIANS IN CHINA: A HYPOTHESIS是同作者《古族新考》一书的英文版。《古族新考》曾于2000年由中华书局出版，2012年由商务印书馆再版。该部部分在国外的具体发表信息如下：“The Earliest Tocharians in China”, Sino-Platonic Papers Number 204, June, 2010, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2 + 78 pp。 吐火罗语文书的发现和对吐火罗语以及有关历史地理问题的研究，既是比较历史语言学界的大事，也是中亚学界的大事。盖自十九世纪末到二十世纪初，在我国西北地区出土的古文书残卷中...(展开全部)

Devastated by the death of his world famous dancer mother, Theo Galland abandons his dancing career for Hollywood acting and meets the famous actor Daren Ferguson. What should have been a joking kiss shared between them takes a sudden turn, however, when Daren asks, "So what comes next?" Theo answers, "That depends on the scenario." As lustful passions boil over, will Theo be a...(展开全部)

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·C.斯科特（James C. Scott），1936年生，现为耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林讲席教授，创立并主持耶鲁农政研究中心。斯科特于1992年当选为美国人文与科学院院士，1997年至1998年担任亚洲研究协会主席。2020年，美国社会科学研究委员会将最高荣誉“阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖”授予斯科特，以表彰他“广博而卓越的跨学科研究”。其主要著作《农民的道义经济学》《弱者的武器》《支配与抵抗艺术》《国家的视角》《逃避统治的艺术》均有中译本，读者众多。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授、立法与法治战略研究中心主任。先后就读于南京大学法学院、香港中文大学政治学系、耶鲁大学法学院，2008年于香港中文大学获得政治学博士。近期出版专著《继往以为序章：中国宪法的制度展开》，译著《我们的孩子》《娇惯的心灵》《寒门子弟上大学》。“雅理”出版策划与主理人。

詹姆斯·C.斯科特（James C. Scott），1936年生，现为耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林讲席教授，创立并主持耶鲁农政研究中心。斯科特于1992年当选为美国人文与科学院院士，1997年至1998年担任亚洲研究协会主席。2020年，美国社会科学研究委员会将最高荣誉“阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖”授予斯科特，以表彰他“广博而卓越的跨学科研究”。其主要著作《农民的道义经济学》《弱者的武器》《支配与抵抗艺术》《国家的视角》《逃避统治的艺术》均有中译本，读者众多。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授、立法与法治战略研究中心主任。先后就读于南京大学法学院、香港中文大学政治学系、耶鲁大学法学院，2008年于香港中文大学获得政治学博士。近期出版专著《继往以为序章：中国宪法的制度展开》，译著《我们的孩子》《娇惯的心灵》《寒门子弟上大学》。“雅理”出版策划与主理人。

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Gothic" might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures--made since ...(展开全部)