While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult has
本系列引進自牛津大學出版社的VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS系列，是一套暢銷全球的“大家小書”，由業內專家楊燕迪、蕭梅、嚴鋒、李皖等聯袂推薦。此次引進的7本音樂主題人文通識譯叢，包括《早期音樂》《管弦樂團》《民間音樂》《民族音樂學》《鄉村音樂》《布魯斯》《音樂心理學》，均由全球頂尖學者執筆，國內一線學者擔綱翻譯，對音樂中的熱門主題進行深入淺出的介紹，旨在打通音樂與人文的邊界，讓讀者在音樂中聽見人文，在閱讀中理解音樂。掃描封底二維碼，可聆聽譯者獨家導讀，還可閱讀英文原版圖書。
本系列引進自牛津大學出版社的VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS系列，是一套暢銷全球的“大家小書”，由業內專家楊燕迪、蕭梅、嚴鋒、李皖等聯袂推薦。此次引進的7本音樂主題人文通識譯叢，包括《早期音樂》《管弦樂團》《民間音樂》《民族音樂學》《鄉村音樂》《布魯斯》《音樂心理學》，均由全球頂尖學者執筆，國內一線學者擔綱翻譯，對音樂中的熱門主題進行深入淺出的介紹，旨在打通音樂與人文的邊界，讓讀者在音樂中聽見人文，在閱讀中理解音樂。掃描封底二維碼，可聆聽譯者獨家導讀，還可閱讀英文原版圖書。
This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other rumors an
To many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that survived in the East following the Great Schism of 1054 that split the Christian world into two camps--C
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, an
Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treat
Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct.
John Wanamaker famously observed that "half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." Indeed, though advertising is pervasive in our society, how it works
Consciousness, "the last great mystery for science," remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could con
Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques.
War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honored as the father of the modern war story, as an innovator in ps
Since dyslexia was first described in the British Medical Journal in 1896, there has been debate about the definitions and diagnostic procedures used, with some casting doubt on its very existence. Ho
This Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human e
