The World interweaves two stories--of our interactions with nature and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation. The culture-centered story is of how human cultures have become mutually influential and ye...(展开全部)

菲利普·费尔南德兹一阿迈斯托，现任美国圣母大学威廉·P．雷诺兹历史学讲座教授。他在牛津大学取得硕士和博士学位后，曾长期留校任教。他还获得了拉特罗布大学和洛斯安第斯大学荣誉博士学位。 他多次出国访学，2000年担任伦敦大学玛丽女王学院全球环境史讲座教授；2005-2009 年，担任塔夫斯大学阿斯图里亚斯王子讲座教授；他还担任过荷兰人文与社会科学高级研究院研究员、明尼苏达大学太平洋联盟客座教授。 他是芝加哥大学出版社制图学史编辑委员会成员、莱顿大学海外史研究编辑委员会成员、《社会、历史、旅行比较研究》以及《全球史》杂志编辑，他还是哈克卢特协会顾问委员、国际笔会英国理事会成员，以及国际笔会文学基金会主席。 他近来荣获的奖项包括：世界历史学会优秀图书奖（2007），西班牙天文协会颁发的2005年度国家级研究奖，西班牙地理协会颁发的2004年度国家级研究奖；他...(展开全部)

About the Author Felipe Fernández-Armesto holds the William P. Reynolds Chair of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, where he spent most of his teaching career, before taking up the Chair of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London in 2000, and the Prince of Asturias Chair a...(展开全部)

Riasanovsky's "History of Russia" has defined the market and set a standard for accurate, balanced interpretation, and attention to political, social, and cultural history and international relations. Featuring a new co-author, Mark Steinberg, this seventh edition includes more information on the politics and economics of post-Socialism and on post-Soviet society and culture. F...(展开全部)

The World interweaves two stories–of our interactions with nature and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation. The culture-centered story is of how human cultures have become mutually influential and yet ...(展开全部)

海伦•舒曼 哥伦比亚大学医学心理教授。1965年开始写作此书，花了约莫七年半的光景，终于完成了这本心理学界的旷世巨著《奇迹课程》 (A Course in Miracles)。 若水 生于中国大陆，长于中国台湾，居于美国加州。中国台湾辅仁大学中文研究所与美国波士顿学院神学研究所硕士。融会儒学、老庄、禅密的精神，应用于心理咨询与辅导工作。著述与译作颇丰，如：《事事本无碍》、《明日之我》、《从已知中解脱》、《超个人心理学》、《告别娑婆》、《奇迹课程》。

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in...(展开全部)

A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in...(展开全部)

杰克逊•J.斯皮瓦格尔（Jackson J.Spielvogel），美国宾西法尼亚州立大学历史学荣退副教授，曾师从著名宗教改革史家哈罗德•格里姆（Harold J. Grimm）。专长神圣罗马帝国、宗教改革史和德国史的研究，并且长期致力于西方文明的通史教学与教材编写。他最早在宾州开设“西方文明史”课程，先后共获五次重大教学奖，其中包括宾州大学最具殊荣的教学基金奖——宾州教学奖。他撰写西方文明史及其他世界史教科书，多次再版，被美国各大院校广泛采用。