Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. "Poetic competence" is demonstrated in these narratives through a person’s ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative, which se...(展开全部)

In this work, Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day in order to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought. "Visions" has three meanings, each of which corresponds to a part of the book. In Part 1, Levine presents the...(展开全部)

Since the classic contributions of Weber and Durkheim, the sociology of law has raised key questions on the place of law in society. Drawing together both theoretical and empirical themes, in this 2008 book Mathieu Deflem reviews the field's major accomplishments and reveals the value of the multiple ways in which sociologists study the social structures and processes of law. H...(展开全部)

If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. She traces his often desperat...(展开全部)

Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and the visual arts. Taking a skeptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Ryan shows how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. Rilke is now the most widely-read and influential German-language p...(展开全部)

蒋熙德（Volker Scheid)，1958 年出生于 德国。人文学家，西方著名的中医学者。他 大学毕业后就开始研习中医，并在英国开办 了中医针灸诊所，曾先后在美国和中国的数 所大学学习中文和中医理论，并多次到中国 拜访名师。蒋熙德的中医药研究卓有成效， 发表了多篇中医药方面的论文和多部中医药 方面的著作。他是英国剑桥大学博士、伦敦 大学博士后，现任伦敦威斯敏斯特大学结合 医学中心研究员、英国卫生部研究员、亚洲 传统医学国际学会会长等职。