As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)

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After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into hi...(展开全部)

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into hi...(展开全部)

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD `Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister t...(展开全部)

Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a sing...(展开全部)

The living practice of Daoist ritual is still only a small part of Daoist studies. Most of this work focuses on the southeast, with the vast area of north China often assumed to be a tabula rasa for local lay liturgical traditions. This book, based on fieldwork, challenges this assumption. With case studies on parts of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, Stephen Jones ...(展开全部)

Aby M. Warburg (18661929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg's 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in the first complete English translation, offers at once a window on his career, a formativ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 约翰·F.霍菲克尔（John F. Hoffecker），美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校北极和高山研究所研究员。1979获得阿拉斯加大学硕士学位，1986获芝加哥大学博士学位，主要关注寒冷环境中的人类生态学。对阿拉斯加州中部的早期史前遗址、北高加索的尼安德特人洞穴、东欧平原中部的早期的旧石器时代晚期遗址以及阿拉斯加州西北海岸的晚期史前因纽特人定居地进行了野外调查。著有《北极史前史》《荒凉观景：东欧冰河世纪的村落》等。 译者简介： 崔艳嫣，博士，聊城大学外语学院教授，硕士生导师，主要从事外语教学和研究工作。 曲枫，本科毕业于吉林大学考古学专业，获荷兰莱顿大学考古学院硕士学位和美国阿拉斯加大学人类学博士学位。曾在阿拉斯加大学人类学系任研究员、副教授，现为聊城大学北冰洋研究中心主任、教授，在聊城大学北冰洋研究中心与阿拉斯加大学人类学系联合培养博士生...(展开全部)

作者简介： 约翰·F.霍菲克尔（John F. Hoffecker），美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校北极和高山研究所研究员。1979获得阿拉斯加大学硕士学位，1986获芝加哥大学博士学位，主要关注寒冷环境中的人类生态学。对阿拉斯加州中部的早期史前遗址、北高加索的尼安德特人洞穴、东欧平原中部的早期的旧石器时代晚期遗址以及阿拉斯加州西北海岸的晚期史前因纽特人定居地进行了野外调查。著有《北极史前史》《荒凉观景：东欧冰河世纪的村落》等。 译者简介： 崔艳嫣，博士，聊城大学外语学院教授，硕士生导师，主要从事外语教学和研究工作。 曲枫，本科毕业于吉林大学考古学专业，获荷兰莱顿大学考古学院硕士学位和美国阿拉斯加大学人类学博士学位。曾在阿拉斯加大学人类学系任研究员、副教授，现为聊城大学北冰洋研究中心主任、教授，在聊城大学北冰洋研究中心与阿拉斯加大学人类学系联合培养博士生...(展开全部)