Devised to legitimize the Republic of China’s claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing i...(展开全部)

Devised to legitimize the Republic of China’s claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing i...(展开全部)

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

When Leviathan first appeared in 1651, it was recognized as a work of extraordinary scope, uniting metaphysical, theological, and political arguments into a single distinctive outlook. Contending that modern readers do the book an injustice by neglecting its metaphysical and theological themes, David Johnston supports his claim with a detailed examination of the text as a whole...(展开全部)

Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet as confused as any innocent by the vagaries of adult behavior, little Levi bears the ...(展开全部)

Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet as confused as any innocent by the vagaries of adult behavior, little Levi bears the...(展开全部)

彼得·布雷瓦（Peter Blegvad），1951年出生于美国纽约。 他是一个通才——是一位作家、漫画家，大多数时候，他则是一位音乐家。他是前卫流行乐队Slapp Happy的组建成员之一（摇滚界的亨利·卢梭），并与Faust、The Golden Palominos 、John Greaves、Andy Partridge等众多知名摇滚乐队合作过。布雷瓦目前和书中的小利维坦一样，生活在英国西伦敦的牧者林区（Shepherds Bush），并在华威大学开办写作课程。 布雷瓦所谱写的歌词，可谓是一座挤满了文字游戏和韵律的珍宝之屋。最具代表的就是他为John Greaves谱写的《邱园·隆河》（Kew. Rhone），其中的歌词“Peel’s foe not a set animal laminates a tone of sleep”，被评为世界上最...(展开全部)

左手作曲右手作畫的鬼才樂手彼得．布雷瓦唯一作品－－ 倫敦《週日獨立報》最受歡迎連載漫畫－輕鬆幽默＆機智辯證共存的完美創作 所謂「利維坦」（Leviathan），是《聖經》中的「可怕大水怪」，也是霍布斯經典名著中用所指稱的「國家機器」。而對所有大人來說，嬰兒的粉嫩無辜可愛都是外表的假象，他們是世上最可怕的超級大怪獸！綜合了《娃娃看天下》的犀利與《加菲貓》的玩世不恭，還有對《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》的致敬，歡迎進入光頭小嬰兒－－利維坦的異想世界！ 《利維坦之書》是搖滾樂手布雷瓦的第一本著作，結集了布雷瓦在倫敦的「週日獨立報」（The Independent on Sunday）上的連載。此作原本只是布雷瓦在音樂之外的無心插柳，沒想到這一畫居然大受歡迎，受到熱烈迴響。布雷瓦筆下的主人翁是個沒臉蛋的光頭小嬰兒，但他卻有個可怕的名字叫「利維坦」（Leviathan），...(展开全部)

Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet as confused as any innocent by the vagaries of adult behavior, little Levi bears the ...(展开全部)