Western thought, writes Clarence Glacken in this magisterial, highly influential study, centers on three questions: Was the earth made for a reason? Does the earth shape human life? How have humans affected the earth? Tracing these three questions in turn deep into antiquity, Glacken shows how varied the answers have been. Aristotle, for instance, argued that there was purpose ...(展开全部)

克拉伦斯·格拉肯（1909-1989），美国地理学家，霍普金斯大学哲学博士，加州大学伯克利分校地理系教授，他在地理学研究上的成就，主要是地理学思想史。因写作《罗得岛岸边的痕迹》一书而被称为“伟大的地理学家”。曾任国际地理联合会（IGU）地理学思想史专委会主席的胡森（David Hooson）教授对他的评价是：格拉肯把这门学科即地理学的视野极大地拓展，超越了本世纪绝大多数地理学家。他涉及了一系列思想领域的重大问题，具有罕见的广度与深度。他的学术成就会长久地影响思想界，且跨越众多学科。

克拉伦斯·格拉肯（1909-1989），美国地理学家，霍普金斯大学哲学博士，加州大学伯克利分校地理系教授，他在地理学研究上的成就，主要是地理学思想史。因写作《罗得岛岸边的痕迹》一书而被称为“伟大的地理学家”。曾任国际地理联合会（IGU）地理学思想史专委会主席的胡森（David Hooson）教授对他的评价是：格拉肯把这门学科即地理学的视野极大地拓展，超越了本世纪绝大多数地理学家。他涉及了一系列思想领域的重大问题，具有罕见的广度与深度。他的学术成就会长久地影响思想界，且跨越众多学科。

Western thought, writes Clarence Glacken in this magisterial, highly influential study, centers on three questions: Was the earth made for a reason? Does the earth shape human life? How have humans affected the earth? Tracing these three questions in turn deep into antiquity, Glacken shows how varied the answers have been. Aristotle, for instance, argued that there was purpose ...(展开全部)

Covering Western costume from Ancient Egypt to contemporary haute couture, this is a fully illustrated companion volume to John Peacock's "Fashion Sourcebooks". The last 4000 years has seen an astonishing variety of ways in which the human form can be dressed, from the relative simplicity of the ancient world, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the changing conventions ...(展开全部)

A wide-ranging history of libraries which will interest academic historians and others interested in book culture.

A wide-ranging history of libraries which will interest academic historians and others interested in book culture.

Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference—the woman a...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later h...(展开全部)