Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fas...(展开全部)

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored...(展开全部)

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his anal...(展开全部)

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In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his analy...(展开全部)

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish ‘national culture’; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...(展开全部)