The "Old Ways" is the stunning new book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012. In "The Old Ways" Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting t...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places , an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling explor...(展开全部)

Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. "Ways of Walking" combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored 'technique of the body'. This book presents studies of walking in a range of regional and cultural contexts, exploring the diversit...(展开全部)

英国记者，其作品《禁卫军之树》2007年获得有“悬疑小说界的奥斯卡奖”美名的爱伦坡悬疑小说奖。本书《徒步金角湾》获得约翰•李维恩图书奖。

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come....(展开全部)

A favorite folk song about a clever fox who outsmarts a farmer provides the text for Peter Spier's splendid and humorous illustrations of a New England autumn night in a Caldecott Honor Book. Includes music for voice, guitar, piano, and all seven verses of the song.

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, tracking the trials that the pe...(展开全部)

Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major ro...(展开全部)

序─卡罗斯、卡斯塔尼达 塔夏莎、阿贝拉是一个团体的成员，这个团体由三个女人所组成，她们接受了特定的巫士训练，训练她们的巫士们来自于墨西哥，由唐望、马特斯所领导。 我曾经花费大量笔墨描写他对我本人的训练，但是我从未写过塔夏莎、阿贝拉所属的这个团体。这是唐望的所有门徒心照不宣的约定，绝口不提这个团体的事。 二十余年来，我们遵守着这个约定。虽然我们工作与生活的环境非常接近，我们从未彼此交换过我们个人的经验。事实上，我们也从未有机会交换我们的看法，来审视唐望与他的团体巫士到底对我们个别做了什么事。 当唐望还在时，如此的情况是不可变更的。当他与他的团体离开这个世界后，我们继续遵守这个约定，因为我们不想花费能量来检讨先前的约定。我们把自己所有的时间与能量都用来使唐望苦心教导我们的知识产生作用。 唐望教导我们，巫术是一种实际的作法，让...(展开全部)

大卫•克罗（David Crow）1984年毕业月美国中医药学院（the Ameriacan Colleges of Traditional Chinese），随即他便开始了针灸和草药学的临床实践。他是第一个被承认为执业针炙医师的外国人。1987年，他对于印度草药医学和藏医的浓厚兴趣让他前往了尼泊尔，在那里他开始了与精通这些古老的治疗学专家们一同共事的实习工作。目前，他已成为世界上植物药理学领域和基础医疗保健领域内最为重要的专家和权威发言人之一。他不仅是是一个草药专家，他还是一名香油按摩治疗医师和拥有超过30年经验的针灸医生，同时他也是一名精通印度草药医学和中医体系的专家。欲了解更多，请登录他的工作网站：www.floracopeia.com。