Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world in which Aramaic rivals Greek and Latin as a great international language, and in which many other local languages develop means of written expression alongside these metropolitan tongues.

Between the seventh and ninth centuries, the Chinese mind became preoccupied with a concept of the afterlife that persists into modern times. To be reborn, the deceased must successfully negotiate passage through ten courts of law, each ruled by a magistrate or king. The pains of transition from death to rebirth can be alleviated by the intercession of the living with contributions to the Buddhist church and bribes of spirit money. The cosmology, morality, and rituals of the ten kings are described for the first time in surviving sources in an illustrated text, The Scripture on the Ten Kings, which is here translated for the first time.

"An important and quite beautiful book". ("Library Journal"). "[Eliade] throws a searching and humbling light on our modern fragmented existence". ([London] "Times Literary Supplement"). "Treatment of such subjects as the meaning of the sacred, sun and moon worship, water symbolism, sacred stones, fertility cults, the earth mother, symbols of regeneration and the myth of eternal renewal, will interest the general reader as well as the scholar". ("New York Times"). "It is doubtful that one could encounter a more impressive work of scholarship and insight...All serious students of religion would derive enormous profit from the reading of this work". ("Kirkus"). In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena - the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted. Mircea Eliade's works include the multivolume "History of Religious Ideas". John C. Holt is a professor of religion at Bowdoin College and the author of "The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka".

Practicing Scripture is an original and detailed history of one of the most successful religious movements of late imperial China, the Non-Action Teachings, or Wuweijiao, from its beginnings in the late sixteenth century in the prefectures of southern Zhejiang to the middle of the twentieth century, when communist repression dealt it a crippling blow. Uncovering important data on its beliefs and practices, Barend ter Haar paints a wholly new picture of the group, which, despite its Daoist-sounding name, was a deeply devout lay Buddhist movement whose adherents rejected the worship of statues and ancestors while venerating the writings of Patriarch Luo (fl. early sixteenth century), a soldier-turned-lay-Buddhist. The texts, written in vernacular Chinese and known as the Five Books in Six Volumes, mix personal experiences, religious views, and a wealth of quotations from the Buddhist canon.
Ter Haar convincingly demonstrates that the Non-Action Teachings was not messianic or millenarian in orientation and had nothing to do with other new religious groups and networks traditionally labelled as White Lotus Teachings. It combined Chan and Pure Land practices with a strong self-identity and vegetarianism and actively insisted on the right of free practice. Members of the movement created a foundation myth in which Ming (1368–1644) emperor Zhengde bestowed the right upon their mythical forefather. In addition, they produced an imperial proclamation whereby Emperor Kangxi of the Qing (1645–1911) granted the group similar privileges.
Thanks to its expert handling of a great number and variety of extant sources, Practicing Scripture depicts one of the few lay movements in traditional China that can be understood in some depth, both in terms of its religious content and history and its social environment. The work will be welcomed by China specialists in religious and Buddhist studies and social history.

"Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words."--Hayden White, University of California

    本书源于以“科学是可以相信的吗？”为题的演讲，该演讲对各种听众，在不同的场合讲述过。范?利尔耶路撒冷基金会的盛情邀请鼓励我把演讲的内容系统化，并扩充为可供四次时间较长的讨论班用的讲稿。在1975年4月把讲稿提交给由哲学家、社会学家和科学家组成的有益的评议小组。此后我允诺将讲稿详细写出以便出版。这似乎不难，但讲稿已有了它们自己的生命力，这就又花了两年时

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国内唯一的综合性数学译刊。精选国际各类数学刊物中有关数学发展趋势与现状、数学教学、数学争鸣、数学史及人物传记的重要文章。
《数学译林》自1980年创刊以来，得到数学界各方面人士及广大读者的支持与帮助，我们仅向爱护和鼓励本刊的各界人士致意！
《数学译林》是综合性学术刊物，介绍国外数学最新进展、现代数学知识、各种数学观点、数学史及人物传记资料，以促进我国数学事业的发展，加速数学人
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自2000年始,本刊将陆续增加国内数学信息的内容,如招考研究生,学术会议及数学出版物等方面的信息。

本书从中国古代宗法制度的源流入手，分别专题探讨上古日名制、昭穆制及姓氏制度的起源和演变，分析其内在机制，提出了一系列新的见解。作者认为中国古代宗法曾经历母族母宗、父族母宗、父族父宗三个阶段，日名制和昭穆制都根源于上古贵族社会“子从母名”、“子从母姓”的风俗，主要流行于父族母宗的阶段，是早期亲属分类、姓氏制度和辈分划分的特殊形式；先秦“男子称氏，妇人称姓”的习俗，仍然反映出上古母系宗法的遗风。

本书是国内第一部集切口之大成的词典.原名为《全国各界切口大词典》,开本为15Cm×11.5Cm,现据上海东陆图书公司1924年版影印出版。
何谓“切口”？其实就是各行业的隐语行话。正行生意可以叫“行话”，偏门生意即是“黑话”了。
八十几年前各行业的行话，会多么有趣，可想而知。
主编：吴汉痴
目录:
商铺类
一 金银业之切口
二 银楼业之切口
三 丝经业之切口
四 绸缎业之切口
五 金线业之切口
……
行号类
五零 干茧行之切口
五一 烟土行之切口
五二 煤炭行之切口
五三 铜锡行之切口
五四 粮食行之切口
……
杂业类
七零 商人共众切口
七一 油坊之切口
七二 冶坊之切口
七三 磨坊之切口
七四 酱园之切口
……
工匠类
九八 理发匠之切口
九九 扦脚匠之切口
一零零 成衣匠之切口
一零一 泥水匠之切口
一零二 箍桶匠之切口
……
手艺类
一四五 卖弹弓之切口
一四六 卖花样之切口
一四七 吹糖人之切口
一四八 卖纸鸢之切口
一四九 卖扯铃之切口
……
医药类
一六八 参燕业之切口
一六九 医生之切口
一七零 药行业之切口
一七一 卖药人之切口
一七二 祝由科之切口
……
巫卜类
一九六 和尚之切口
一九七 道士之切口
一九八 尼姑之切口
一九九 巫婆之切口
二零零 文王课之切口
……
星相类
二零六 星家之切口
二零七 相家之切口
二零八 隔壁算命之切口
二零九 量手算命之切口
二一零 拉和琴算命之切口
……
衙卒类
二一七 衙役之切口
二一八 侦探之切口
二一九 仵作之切口
二二零 讼棍之切口
二二一 写状之切口
……
役夫类
二三一 茶担夫之切口
二三二 人力车夫之切口
二三三 轿夫之切口
二三四 脚夫之切口
二三五 马夫之切口
……
武术类
二四七 教武艺者之切口
二四八 行程保镖者之切口
二四九 住宅保镖者之切口
二五零 卖拳头者之切口
二五一 妇女顶缸走索之切口
……
优伶类
娼妓类
党会类
赌博类
乞丐类
盗贼类
杂流类

Here is one of the most enjoyable and illuminating books ever published for the music lover, a feast of delightful anecdotes that reveal the all-too-human side of the great composers and performers.
There are stories of appetites (Handel eating dinner for three), embarrassments (Brahms falling asleep as Liszt plays), oddities (Bruckner's dog being trained to howl at Wagner), and devotions (a lovely admirer disrobing in tribute to Puccini). There are memorable accounts of Stravinsky telling Proust how much he hates Beethoven, of Tchaikovsky's first bewildering telephone call, of Dvorak's strange love of pigeons, and of Verdi's intricate maneuvering to keep the now-famous melody of "La donna è mobile" top secret.
There is also wonderful trivia (Beethoven loved to cat "bread soup" made with ten raw eggs), along with eccentric strategies (Verdi, disturbed by the sound of street organs playing arias from his operas, hired them all for a season and kept them locked in a room). There are examples of musicians munificent generosity (Haydn called Mozart "the greatest composer known to me, either in person or by name"), and scathing dismissal ("Have you heard any Stockhausen?" the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was asked. "No," he replied, "but I believe I have trodden in some").
Collected from thousands of books, articles, and unpublished manuscripts (with historical sources provided in extensive notes), these anecdotes appear in their original form, throwing fresh light on familiar figures in the musical hall of fame. For browsing, reading, research and amusement, this book is a grand entertainment for concert-goers, record-buyers, operamanes, gossips and music lovers everywhere.

The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.E.) is one of the world's greatest epic narratives and, quite possibly, its oldest epic poem. Our text is based on a new English translation from original sources. An introduction, interpretive headings, explanatory annotations, and illustrations guide readers through the text and help them explore Near Eastern history and culture. Analogues includes two related groups of ancient poetry. The first is a collection of shorter, older Sumerian poems about the hero Gilgamesh, some of which appear in The Epic of Gilgamesh . The second collection includes material about Gilgamesh from the Hittite language, translations or paraphrases of Babylonian versions of the epic that have not been preserved in the same form. Criticism provides introduction and analysis in essays by William Moran, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Rivkah Harris. A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.

《杨度与梁启超——我们的祖父与外祖父》系杨度之孙杨友麒、梁启超外孙女吴荔明夫妇合著，也是国内第一部杨度和梁启超的合传。全书史料丰厚，见解独到，总以时间为序，在整体纵向叙述的同时，采取比较研究的方式横向论述，横纵交替。不单介绍了杨度和梁启超的生平及二人的关系，也介绍了他们与同时代重要历史人物关系、他们在重大历史事件中发挥的作用。最后部分还专章介绍了杨度与梁启超的后代，以现其流风余韵，对当今读者尤为有益。
阅世谁如朗月，成功只有东风。
江山人物古今同，尽入扁舟一梦。
——杨度
不恨年华去也，只恐少年心事，强半为销磨。愿替众生病，稽首礼维摩。
——梁启超
他是杨度的孙子，她是梁启超的外孙女。
杨友麒、吴荔明伉俪晚年成书，
向你讲述两位祖辈的传奇人生!

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism -- to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the renowned Tahitian exploits of Joseph Banks -- whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti -- reinforced scandalous associations with the field. Yet Linnaeus and Banks became powerful political and scientific figures who were able to promote botanical exploration alongside the exploitation of territories, peoples, and natural resources. Sex, Botany, and Empire explores the entwined destinies of these two men and how their influence served both science and imperialism. Patricia Fara reveals how Enlightenment botany, under the veil of rationality, manifested a drive to conquer, subdue, and deflower -- all in the name of British empire. Linnaeus trained his traveling disciples in a double mission -- to bring back specimens for the benefit of the Swedish economy and to spread the gospel of Linnaean taxonomy. Based in London at the hub of an international exchange and correspondence network, Banks ensured that Linnaeus's ideas became established throughout the world. As the president of the Royal Society for more than forty years, Banks revolutionized British science, and his innovations placed science at the heart of trade and politics. He made it a policy to collect and control resources not only for the sake of knowledge but also for the advancement of the empire. Although Linnaeus is often celebrated as modern botany's true founder, Banks has had a greater long-term impact. It was Banks who ensured that science and imperialism flourished together, and it was he who first forged the interdependent relationship between scientific inquiry and the state that endures to this day.