The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he substantiates and defends Marxism and advocates the Marxian theory of social development. Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) was one of the leaders of Russian populism and after his emigration to Western Europe in 1880 becam...(展开全部)

This second edition of "An Environmental History of the World" continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of su...(展开全部)

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

拉博·德·圣艾蒂安（Rabaut de Saint Etienne，1743~1793），法国温和派革命者、第十届国民议会主席，因在国民议会中担任立法者和演说者而声名鹊起，曾参与有关《人权宣言》的辩论，著有《希腊的原始社会》等，在制宪会议期间致力于制定宪法，反对建立共和国。 顾伟，曲阜师范大学翻译学院讲师，苏州大学翻译学在读博士。发表论文六篇，出版译著两部，主持市厅级课题三项，参与国家级、省部级课题各一项。

弗洛里安·兹纳涅茨基（１８８２—１９５８），波兰出生的美国社会学家、诗人，１９５３年曾当选为美国社会学协会会长。早年研修哲学，后专事社会学。其社会学体系跨越欧陆与英美，受新康德主义、历史主义和实用主义的影响，注重将人类世界作为一个文化世界来研究，认为“文化世界是一个价值世界，而非事物世界”。他有关社会学理论及方法的著作，在社会学成为独立学科的过程中，起到过承前启后的作用。此外，他还是倡导实地调查的先驱人物和波兰农民文化研究的权威。

More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Now authors Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, ...(展开全部)

谢尔登·所罗门（Sheldon Solomon） 杰夫·格林伯格（Jeff Greenberg） 汤姆·匹茨辛斯基（Tom Pyszczynski） 3位社会心理学家，分别在斯基德莫尔学院、亚利桑那大学、科罗拉多大学担任心理学教授。 他们在研究和写作上的合作已经延续30多年了。他们在对死亡的恐惧这一主题上的研究不但获过奖，还受到了美国自然科学基金的支持。在这一研究中，他们将存在主义思想融入现代心理科学当中，使用最尖端的科学研究方法来探索这一长期以来被认为超越了科学研究范畴的领域。不同角度的整合带来了一些新的思考方式，思考关于文化、自尊和引发人们做出他们最高贵和最卑鄙行为的那些因素。