When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end?...(展开全部)

One of the most successful animal photographers in the world today, Rachael McKenna (nee Hale) turns her lens toward France--her newly adopted home--and the charismatic cats that inhabit this picturesque backdrop. The result is "The French Cat," a stunning exploration of the country and its felines. Remarkable French landscapes, both urban and rural, are populated with cats bri...(展开全部)

Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world's most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure's conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These stories give life to the Wall and...(展开全部)

作者简介： 顾立雅（Herrlee Glessner Creel，1905—1994），美国汉学元老，曾任美国东方学会会长、芝加哥大学东方语文系主任。1929年获芝加哥大学博士学位，1932—1936年赴中国访学，结识诸多中国名家，并赴殷墟考察。回国后致力于汉学研究推广，著有《中国人的世界观》《中国之诞生》《中国古代文化研究》《孔子与中国之道》《中国思想》《中国治道之源》等。2006年芝加哥大学建立“顾立雅中国古文字学中心”纪念其学术成就。 译者简介： 马腾，暨南大学法学院/知识产权学院教授、博士生导师，中山大学法学博士，兼任中国法律史学会理事。主要研究领域为法学理论、中国法律史、先秦诸子思想，曾获首届曾宪义先生法律史奖学金学术俊秀奖、第十届钱端升法学研究优秀成果奖。著有《儒法合流与中国传统法思想阐释》《墨家“兼爱”法思想的现代诠释》，译有《道德的法...(展开全部)

What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one "Taoism," but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of "contemplative Taoism," "purposive Taoi...(展开全部)

作者简介： 顾立雅（Herrlee Glessner Creel，1905—1994），美国汉学元老，曾任美国东方学会会长、芝加哥大学东方语文系主任。1929年获芝加哥大学博士学位，1932—1936年赴中国访学，结识诸多中国名家，并赴殷墟考察。回国后致力于汉学研究推广，著有《中国人的世界观》《中国之诞生》《中国古代文化研究》《孔子与中国之道》《中国思想》《中国治道之源》等。2006年芝加哥大学建立“顾立雅中国古文字学中心”纪念其学术成就。 译者简介： 马腾，暨南大学法学院/知识产权学院教授、博士生导师，中山大学法学博士，兼任中国法律史学会理事。主要研究领域为法学理论、中国法律史、先秦诸子思想，曾获首届曾宪义先生法律史奖学金学术俊秀奖、第十届钱端升法学研究优秀成果奖。著有《儒法合流与中国传统法思想阐释》《墨家“兼爱”法思想的现代诠释》，译有《道德的法...(展开全部)

A portrait of world civilization told through the fascinating stories of the world’s greatest cities. A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopot...(展开全部)

A portrait of world civilization told through the stories of the world's greatest cities from ancient times to the present. Today, for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here? From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global met...(展开全部)

Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices. He demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system. Index.

作者: 希尔达·基恩，英国格林威治大学客座教授，伦敦大学学院名誉高级研究员。著有《动物权利：1800年以来英国的政治与社会》《伦敦故事：个人生活和公共历史》等。