Long before the Dog Whisperer, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas revealed to readers the nature of pack dynamics, leading to a completely new understanding of dogs and their desires. In this fascinating account, based on thirty years of living with and observing dogs, we meet Misha, a friend’s husky, whom Thomas followed on his daily rounds of more than 130 square mil...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Thomas's multifaceted discussion of canine life was a 28-week PW bestseller. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information， Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Novelist/ethologist Thomas may be well known to readers for her novels Reindeer Moon (LJ 1/87) and The Animal Wife ( LJ 7/90). ...(展开全部)

Have you ever wondered what the world looks like to your dog? Or what it smells like? Do dogs have dreams and, if so, what about? And are dogs really capable of emotion? THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS was a sensational bestseller on first publication and is now considered a classic. In her riveting account of thirty years spent living with dogs, wolves and dingoes, Elizabeth Marshall ...(展开全部)

Of all the animals caught in the crosshairs of environmental dilemmas, the wolf is the most challenging. Many people have strong feelings, in part because of the kinship of wolves with dogs, clearly visible in the array of photographs in this book. Jim and Jamie Dutcher have spent years getting to know these animals, gaining the trust of a small pack with whom they shared a 25-...(展开全部)

David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to ...(展开全部)

David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to vo...(展开全部)

David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to vo...(展开全部)

David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to ...(展开全部)

* 北京隱士：埃德蒙．拜克斯爵士不為人知的一生 本書主角埃德蒙．崔洛尼．拜克斯爵士（Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse），二代從男爵，生於西元一八七三年十月二十日，卒於西元一九四四年一月八日，享年七十歲。身為英國的東方人文及語言學家，是拜克斯家族中的異類，其作品在西方學界對於中國末代帝朝最後數十年其間的觀點看法曾有著舉足輕重的影響力，但最為世人熟知的仍是其啟人疑竇被懷疑為杜撰的史料。 埃德蒙．拜克斯生於達靈頓的一個貴格會（Quaker，基督教新教的一個派別）家庭。其父親約那頓．拜克斯爵士（Sir Jonathan Backhouse）是柏克萊銀行的主管，他的親戚包含了許多教士及學者，是以他或曾想見賢思齊。他的最小弟弟─羅傑．拜克斯爵士（Sir Roger Backhouse）曾任英國皇家海軍第一海軍卿(First Sea L...(展开全部)