A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. In The Tame and the Wild, Marcy Norton tells a new history of the colonization of the Americas, placing wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. Encounters between European and Indigenous beliefs about animal life trans...(展开全部)

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated ...(展开全部)

迈克尔•陶西格，1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他在医学人类学领域发表了大量的著作，同时他对卡尔•马克思和瓦尔特•本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论，最为人称道。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》《美女与野兽》等。 王浩娉，本科毕业于北京外国语大学，后留学美国明尼苏达大学，曾任社会科学文献出版社学术编辑。 赵玉燕，女，博士，湖南师范大学社会学系副教授、硕士生导师。

First published in 1985, Pollock and After established itself as a widely-read and highly influential collection of key writings on Abstract Expressionism. This revised edition, featuring ten new articles, is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art. Contributors: Anna C. Chave, T J Clark, Eva Cockcroft, David Craven, Michael Fried, An...(展开全部)

What does Heidegger's controversial notion of the Event mean? Can it be read as an historical prophecy connected to his political affinity with Nazism? And what has this concept to do with the possibility of a new beginning for Western philosophy after Schelling and Nietzsche? This book highlights the theoretical affinity between the results of Schelling's speculations and Heid...(展开全部)

July 4， 1976<br >NEW YORK HARBOR<br >Tall sails scraped the deep purple nigl~ as rockets burst， flared， and flourished<br >red， white， and blue over the stoic Statue of Liberty. The whole world was<br >watching， it seemed; the whole world was there. Ships from fifty-five nations had<br >poured sailors into Manhattan to join the throngs， counted in the millions， ...(展开全部)

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these qu...(展开全部)