In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two great thinkers, who discuss their work and explore the similarities and difference...(展开全部)

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate co...(展开全部)

Late one night, exploring ther father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hiden in the depths of history. Comme...(展开全部)

Josephus, author of the "Jewish War" and the "Jewish Antiquities", belongs equally to Jewish and to Greco-Roman history. A well-to-do priest and Pharisee at Jerusalem, he was a contemporary and chronicler of the great changes which took place in the Roman Empire in the first century AD and a controversial general in the great Jewish revolt of 66-73 against Rome. Tessa Rajak, an...(展开全部)

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

【作者简介】 蔡九迪（Judith T. Zeitlin），1988年获得哈佛大学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学东亚语言文明系讲座教授，主要研究方向为明清文学、戏剧和视觉文化。著有《异史氏：蒲松龄与中国文言小说》《芳魂：明末清初中国文学中的女鬼与性别》《蔡九迪自选集》等。目前，正与中国作曲家合作创作《聊斋》题材歌剧，并计划开展《聊斋志异》全书的英译工作。 【译者简介】 任增强，文学博士，山东大学儒学高等研究院副教授，国家重点文化工程“全球汉籍合璧工程”研究编编辑室主任，兼任文化与旅游部–北京语言大学共建“中国文化对外翻译与传播研究中心”研究员，全国高校海外汉学研究学会理事，主要研究方向为海外汉学与汉籍。出版著作有《英美聊斋学研究》和《中国文化概要》（英文版）。围绕汉学与汉籍发表论文多篇，部分文章被《新华文摘》《中国社会科学文摘》以及人大复印资料等摘编转载。...(展开全部)

Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. He offers not only the 'traditional' Roman subject matter of emperors and high politics, military campaigning and foreign wars, but new features symptomatic of his age - the machinations of t...(展开全部)

Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. Trained in mechanical engineering and art history, he was convinced that technology was making society not only more exciting but more democratic. His combination of academic rigor and pop culture sensibility put him in opposition to...(展开全部)

「在地景景觀的背後，在工具器械的背後，在看來最形式化的文件與制度背後，就是人本身。歷史研究想掌握的，也就是這些人。」1929年，由於不滿當時法國史學界劃地為限、自足於史料與制度史煩瑣考證的風氣，布洛克奮然與費夫爾豎起《年鑑》的大旗，力倡回到以人為中心的歷史研究。時至今日，“年鑑史學”已蔚為當今史學巨流，透過本書，可以清楚看出這位奠基者當年為他們所揭櫫的綱領。 歷史有什麼用？歷史要如何研究，或者說，要如何來讀歷史？在本書中，布洛克再三強調，愈是能了解生活於歷史上與現在社會的人（複數的人），“傳統”與“現代”之間的壁壘就愈不如我們所想像的那麼分明。從現實生活體驗歷史，由歷史研究返照現實與生命，這是布洛克一生的理想，他自己的確也已實踐。 「簡言之，在歷史研究裡，一如在其他地方，原因是不能事先設定的，我們得去尋找……。《史家的技藝》一書擱筆於此，這句話也如實...(展开全部)

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology , James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.