http://www.brill.com/cn/products/book/introduction-tsinghua-bamboo-strip-manuscripts Liu Guozhong. Translated by Christopher J. Foster, Harvard University and William N. French, Harvard University The Tsinghua University bamboo-strip manuscripts are among the most extraordinary collections of ancient texts discovered in China to date. In Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Stri...(展开全部)

In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble a...(展开全部)

The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages ...(展开全部)

The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages ...(展开全部)

In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble a...(展开全部)

这本书的作者Edward Hollis是爱丁堡艺术学院(Edinburgh College of Art)的讲师，书中的13个故事，是用诗化的语言，散文式的叙述方式，将述建筑与历史文化之间的联系。 这13个故事的起点是雅典的 Parthenon 神殿，这曾经是雅典人献给城市守护神雅典娜的殿堂(parthenos 意为“处女”，指雅典娜这位“处女女神”)，这个被称为是“最完美”的建筑，在建成之后，便是一个逐渐被毁坏的过程，所以第一章的标题就是 In Which a Virgin is Ruined，在经过马其顿人的洗劫、罗马皇帝的掠夺(神殿内的雅典娜金身塑像被搬到了君士坦丁堡)、神圣同盟的炮击、直到英国人Lord Elgin 把神殿大理石带回英国，神殿曾被改造成教堂、清真寺、以后又出现破坏性的“修复”等等，似乎每个人都想从这个完美的“处女”身上掏一点东...(展开全部)

"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -"Time""" Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography "Louis Riel," winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps i...(展开全部)

A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to ...(展开全部)

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the exotic dancers...(展开全部)

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton - a southeastern American city renowned for its strip clubs - anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating heterosexual, male strip club "regulars." Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the ...(展开全部)