Life is never ordinary. R to L (Japanese Style). What begins with a college dropout bored of her mediocre routine soon becomes a fantastic series of vignettes about the unexpected ways that lives intersect. Filled with magical realism in the face of the cold reality of modern life, at their core these stories are about discovering something precious in the chaos of existence. A...(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 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)

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)

Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number? The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned. With enthusiasm, humour and heart, Eddie Woo shows how card tricks, conspiracy theories, ...(展开全部)

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and ...(展开全部)

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and ...(展开全部)

This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past. A History of England, Volume 1 (Prehistory to 1714), focuses on the most important developments in the history of England through the early 18th century. Topics inc...(展开全部)

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical acc...(展开全部)