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)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American society--and, indeed, in world economics and culture--that it has become an almost universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of commercial success and the basest impulses of greed and deception. How did such a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enor...(展开全部)

Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American society--and, indeed, in world economics and culture--that it has become an almost universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of commercial success and the basest impulses of greed and deception. How did such a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enor...(展开全部)

◎ 著者 吉姆·恩德斯比（Jim Endersby），于英国剑桥大学取得科学史和科学哲学专业博士学位，现为英国苏塞克斯大学科学史系教授。他特别感兴趣植物园史、帝国对19世纪的英国科学和社会的影响、科学和文学、达尔文主义出现以后的接受度以及所产生的影响。吉姆与英国皇家植物园邱园保持着长期合作，除了本职研究，他还曾为邱园策划展览和提供志愿者培训，也曾在英国广播公司BBC四套主持与邱园相关的节目。《兰花诸相》中有关兰花的众多精美插图即选自邱园的收藏。 ◎ 译者 刘夙，2012年毕业于中国科学院大学（中国科学院植物研究所），获博士学位。现为上海辰山植物园研究员，从事通俗读物编著、翻译和植物知识网站建设工作。参著或翻译有植物文化图书《植物名字的故事》《魔豆》《鲜花人类学》等多种。

Following on from his highly acclaimed first publication, Peter Rietbergen's excellent second edition brings the reader up to date with Europe's current cultural trends. Rietbergen examines the many varied cultural building blocks of Europe, their importance in the continent's cultural identity, and how the perception of Europe has changed over the centuries. Working chronologi...(展开全部)

Ugly as sin, the ugly duckling—or maybe you fell out of the ugly tree? Let’s face it, we’ve all used the word “ugly” to describe someone we’ve seen—hopefully just in our private thoughts—but have we ever considered how slippery the term can be, indicating anything from the slightly unsightly to the downright revolting? What really lurks behind this most favored insult? In this ...(展开全部)