In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages , Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizable vocabulary of race emerged in the West.

Analysing sources in a variety of media, including stories, maps, statuary, illustrations, architectural features, history, saints' lives, religious commentary, laws, political and social institutions, and literature, she argues that religion - so much in play again today - enabled the positing of fundamental differences among humans that created strategic essentialisms to mark off human groups and populations for racialized treatment. Her ground-breaking study also shows how race figured in the emergence of homo europaeus and the identity of Western Europe in this time.

该书在充分借鉴和反思国内外相关研究成果的基础上，全面、系统地探讨了晚清义赈的兴起和发展，细致、深入地揭示了中国救荒事业近代化的复杂过程，进一步拓展和深化了中国近代救荒史的研究。作者从晚清社会变局的大背景下，以较为独到的视角深入分析了晚清义赈与社会变迁的关系，特别是与中国近代工业化进程之间错综复杂的互动关系，为探讨“中国近代化落实过程”提出了重要的、具有启发意义的新思路。作者围绕着传统与现代、内发性动力与外部冲突、国家与社会、地方性与普遍性等诸多层次，展开了颇具说服力的辨析，进而对其背后潜在的研究模式，尤其是“冲击-回应”与“中国中心观”模式之争，作出了自己的判断，为人们提供了颇有价值的参考。

法国知识分子可以说是全世界知识分子的鼻祖与仿效的楷模。这不仅是因为他们是一个为人类贡献和传承大量精神财富的群体。更是因为他们是全世界最敢于挺身站在权力与暴力面前为正义呐喊的群体。他们代表了人类自由、平等的最高价值。
本书铺展开宏伟壮丽的长篇画卷，描绘了法国知识分子的全部历史。从中世纪的史前史到左拉“我控诉！”的呐喊，再到当代反全球化的ATTAC运动，一个个挺直脊梁、敢于面对社会不公、勇于挑战权威的法国知识分子形象在我们面前栩栩如生。
除了梳理了法国知识分子的来龙去脉，本书更是对什么是真正的“知识分子”做了发人深省的论述：并不是有知识的人就是“知识分子”，知识分子必须要有良知与担当！通过对法国知识分子的所作所为的了解，读者将会对知识分子所应该具有的良知与担当有所领悟。就这一点而言，本书不啻是一部当下知识分子的精神指南。

作者认为，以蒋介石为首的国民政府所依靠的既非买办资产阶级，也非城市资产阶级，更不是农村地主阶级，而是依靠军队、帮会和少数忠诚于他的亲戚、政府官员。本书就此展开对国民政府的社会经济基础的讨论。

南海东北隅作为一个地理范围，大致包括粤东和福建沿海、台湾海峡、台澎诸岛以及吕宋岛到台湾南部海域。本书从全球、国家与地方等层面入手，探讨了该区域在近代早期的联动及一些相应的变化。全书共七章，可分为三部分，分别对应于本来就有的地方社会秩序，殖民势力的影响，以及王朝易代和社会重组。大致而言，前三章讲述“寇”的本质并揭示地方或区域秩序的本源，四至五章反映西班牙与荷兰殖民势力的扩张及其作为一种变量对闽粤到菲律宾海域秩序的影响，六至七章论述产生“寇乱”的滨海社会重组以及王朝国家联合殖民势力进行征伐的努力。作者强调，区域本身即有自己的秩序，并会基于这种秩序因应外界变化而演化出既带有“特殊性”又与更广泛区域共享“普遍性”的新的自在性秩序。

Given the many important developments in Sino-American relations in the past decade, there is a desperate need for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of the increasingly contentious and complicated relationship between these two giants of the world stage. This classic text by one of America's leading diplomatic historians analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.--China policy -- as well as of their important consequences.
In its first three editions, America's Response to China set the standard for introductions to this important topic. This 4th Edition is the most up-to-date work on the subject. Starting with a discussion of the mercantile interests of the newly independent American colonies and ranging through the dramatic causes and effects of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, America's Response to China, 4th Edition continues into the Bush and Clinton years, utilizing material available only in the last five to ten years. With equal parts trenchant analysis and insightful synthesis, Warren I. Cohen provides an excellent summary of U.S.--China relations on the eve of the twenty-first century.

1万年前的欧洲人就是金发碧眼吗？
印度几千年的种姓制度造就了怎样的结果？
人类是起源于非洲还是世界各地分别演化出来的？
尼安德特人、丹尼索瓦人真的被我们的祖先完全消灭了吗？
你知道有很多“幽灵人群”活在我们的DNA里吗？
传统的考古学、语言学构建的人类演化史留下了大片大片的空白。幸好，这已经成为过去时。古人类DNA测序正在掀起一场革命，重新谱写一曲50万年的人类迁徙演化之歌。
大卫·赖克从古人类遗骨中提取DNA，从基因层面还原了人类祖先的面貌。原来，我们的先祖在地球上已经上演了几百万年的“权力的游戏”：在任何一片大陆上，人群都经历了多次毁灭与更迭；所有当代人的祖先都拥有一段复杂难辨的混血史，没有人是“纯种”；千百万年来的种族、性别、阶层不平等在我们每个人的DNA里都留下了深深的刻痕。
面对DNA序列分析这种最先进可靠的技术，我们以前所以为的所有关于人类演变的知识，凡是跟这本书所代表的当前科学理解不一样的，都只能改写。因此，这场革命给了两个问题迄今最为清晰的答案：我们是谁，我们从哪里来。
● 你所知道的关于人类祖先的一切几乎都错了！
使用化石、文物来研究人类演化史的传统手段已经落伍了。2009年以来，从古人类遗骸中提取的全基因组DNA数据开始大展身手，破天荒地对考古学、人类学、历史学，甚至语言学中人们习以为常的观点提出挑战，甚至开始解决这些领域之间的矛盾之处。这场“古DNA革命”正在以摧枯拉朽之势改变着我们对人类历史的看法。
● 这不仅仅是一本书，还是科学进入历史领域的里程碑。
本书作者大卫·赖克是古人类DNA领域的世界级领跑者，哈佛医学院遗传学系教授。2013年到2018年，赖克的古DNA实验室生产了7 000多份古人类全基因组数据，占全世界总量的一半以上。作为古DNA革命的领头人，他义不容辞花费3年写出了《人类起源的故事》这本领域奠基之作，以古DNA这个非凡的视角，向读者提供了一幅人类历史的清晰画卷。
● 这是一本给全人类的寻根指南，一部人类祖先的疯狂混血史。
“我辽阔广大，我包罗万象”，惠特曼的诗歌告诉了我们小中蕴大的道理：一个人的基因组内能记录众多祖先的历史，一个人的身上能承载一个人群的过去。大卫·赖克从当代人和古人DNA中挖掘信息，描绘了一幅数十万年的人类起源、迁徙、演化和混合的宏大地图。他厘清了欧洲人、印度人、东亚人、美洲人、非洲人的历史变迁，得出一个惊人的结论：人类大家庭根本不是一棵枝干分明的树，而是一张疯狂混血的网。
● 这是一枚重塑种族、性别观念的重磅炸弹。
面对在美国极具争议的种族问题，大卫·赖克勇敢站出来表明了自己的科学立场。他抛弃了传统的“种族”概念，转而使用“血统”话语，并坦诚科学证实人群之间存在生物学差异。他还在DNA中发现了种族、性别、阶层不平等的显著证据。面对这些事实，赖克反对人类坦然接受镌刻在DNA里的不平等，而是用他的“勇敢、慈悲和高度个人化的情感高潮“感召我们反抗人性之恶、成为更好的人。
● 有人写出了一本你梦寐以求的书是什么体验？
《人类起源的故事》是多学科交叉的，既有自然科学的实证，又有人文社科的情怀，既重视知识的传播，又兼具趣味性和可读性。书中有20幅精美的人类迁徙路线图，完美概括了科学界的最新成果。这本书一面世，就受到了一众科学、文化、科普、历史大咖的强烈推荐——《三体》作者刘慈欣评价大卫·赖克是“讲故事的高手”；著名科学家杨焕明、付巧妹、王传超为本书的科学理性、严谨认真做保证；科普高手万维钢、河森堡、小庄为之“着迷”；文化思想界大咖严锋、刘擎、土摩托受其“感召”；世界著名科普作家贾雷德·戴蒙德、悉达多·穆克吉、丹尼尔·利伯曼、塔勒布联袂推荐，赞不绝口！
● 湛庐文化出品。

农业起源与人类起源、文明起源是考古学研究中十分重要的三个"起源"问题。本书从狩猎采集者的文化生态学角度来研究农业起源。全书共分十二章，分别从理论角度、当代气象站提供的资料模拟、具体的考古材料与古环境材料、梳理了现有的考古发现四个角度分析了中国的农业起源问题。

羽田正编著的《伊斯兰世界概念的形成》的日文版于2005年出版，作者的写作背景是2001年“九一一事件”后日本和世界媒体上的反伊斯兰报道，作者注意到“伊斯兰世界”是一个包含着与其他世界有所区分、甚至与其他世界有着二元对立意味的概念，为此，他尽其所能地利用阿拉伯和波斯语的历史资料，并参考了西文文献，去弄清楚“伊斯兰世界”概念是在何时何地形成的。作者的结论是“伊斯兰世界”应该只是作为一个存在于穆斯林心中的世界，即理念上的穆斯林共同体来使用，应与穆斯林居民占多数的地区这一地理空间区别开来。人们不应该继续不加思考地滥用“伊斯兰世界”这一概念。
《伊斯兰世界概念的形成》出版后在日本国内获得了好评，许多新闻和杂志针对此书发表了书评，并获得了“亚洲太平洋奖特别奖”，2010年获得了伊朗的“Al-farabi国际奖”。

한국학의 대가’ 스위스인 마르티나 도이힐러가 내놓은 역작. 15~16세기 당시 사회에 신유학(성리학)의 도입과 정착이 지속적으로 강력히 추진된 동기는 무엇이었으며, 신유학이 사회 구조에 미친 영향은 어떠했는가에 대한 공백을 메운 최초의 본격 시도였다는 점에서 획기적인 업적으로 평가받는 책이다.
20여 년이 걸린 마르티나 도이힐러의 역작은 약 150여 종이나 되는 사료와 290여 편의 각종 저작을 인용한다. 특히 사회인류학과 교류하면서 친족, 조상 숭배, 가계계승, 상속, 결혼, 상장례 등 6개의 키워드를 중심으로 고려 초기에서 조선 후기까지 한국의 역사를 통찰하는 가운데 매우 중요한 사실에 도달한다.
1392년 조선의 건국세력에 의하여 본격적으로 추진된 유교 사회로의 전환이 이후 약 250년에 걸쳐서 점진적으로 완성되었고, 그 결과 17세기 중반에 이르러 조선의 양반 사회가 적장자 중심의 문중 사회로 재편성되었다는 결론을 내린다.
이렇게 재구성된 조선 사회는 고려시대의 사회 구조와 확연히 달랐고, 유교사상이 중국 사회에도 깊은 영향을 미쳤지만 한국에서는 세계 다른 어느 나라에서도 보기 힘들 정도로 중대한 변화를 가져왔다는 것이 저자의 주장이다.

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to each other through complex circle and waggle dances. For centuries, beekeepers had observed these curious movements in hives, and others had speculated about the possibility of a bee language used to manage the work of the hive. But it took von Frisch to determine that the bees’ dances communicated precise information about the distance and direction of food sources. As Tania Munz shows in this exploration of von Frisch’s life and research, this important discovery came amid the tense circumstances of the Third Reich.
The Dancing Bees draws on previously unexplored archival sources in order to reveal von Frisch’s full story, including how the Nazi government in 1940 determined that he was one-quarter Jewish, revoked his teaching privileges, and sought to prevent him from working altogether until circumstances intervened. In the 1940s, bee populations throughout Europe were facing the devastating effects of a plague (just as they are today), and because the bees were essential to the pollination of crops, von Frisch’s research was deemed critical to maintaining the food supply of a nation at war. The bees, as von Frisch put it years later, saved his life. Munz not only explores von Frisch’s complicated career in the Third Reich, she looks closely at the legacy of his work and the later debates about the significance of the bee language and the science of animal communication.
This first in-depth biography of von Frisch paints a complex and nuanced portrait of a scientist at work under Nazi rule. The Dancing Bees will be welcomed by anyone seeking to better understand not only this chapter of the history of science but also the peculiar waggles of our garden visitors.

本书分上下两编，上编“艺林”，收经学为主的学术论文22篇；下编“史林”，收史学为主的学术论文18篇。内容涉及经学、语言文字、石刻碑帖、词典韵书、称谓避讳、敦煌吐鲁番文书研究、简牍、清代学术等方面。有《由清华简〈尹诰〉论〈古文尚书·咸有一德〉之性质》等研究新出清华简的论文，有《从熹平石经和竹简〈缁衣〉看清人四家诗研究》等研究石经、石刻的论文，还有《商周称谓与中国古代避讳起源》等论文。

本书透视了1927-1937年蒋介石在中国统治最初十年的历史，分析了国民党统治的社会基础，指出蒋介石政权与中国古代王朝统治的联结之点，分析了国民革命失败的内在原因。

国民党何以失败？这是1949年国民党政权垮台后，一个在国际史学界长期争论不休的问题，也是现代中国发展中一个非常值得反思的问题。易劳逸教授通过国民党自身的各种材料，运用地质学家研究地球形成的方法，摘取若干典型事例，精辟分析了其中的原因。作者认为，国民党的失败，不是因为缺乏 美援，而是由于其自身的弊病和分裂，诸如腐败无能、纪律废弛等等。
关于这本书的价值，可以用雷利·桑德兰的一句话来概括：“对国民党失败这一问题的新近研究会由《毁灭的种子》而得以开拓。”

《禅宗思想与文献丛考》分为“禅宗思想论考”“汉译佛经论考”和“文学文献论考”上、中、下三编，收录作者长年以来的有代表性的相关研究论文10篇：《德山与临济》《临济义玄禅师的禅思想》《感兴之语――唐末五代转型期禅宗对悟道论的探究》《地狱中的救赎——<金刚经>灵验说的意义》《以敦煌写经校订“大正藏”刍议》《唐玄宗<御注金刚般若经>的复元与研究》《日本金泽文库藏抄本<香严颂>七十六首覆校》《南宋送别诗集<一帆风>成书考》《一山一宁禅师的诗偈和书法艺术》《旧钞本校勘的三种类型》。内容涉及禅宗语言、思想、文学以及敦煌学等多个方面，从多个不同角度为读者展现出近世以来禅学的面貌。

本书以考古材料为基础，在中国本土、西域及南海范围内，以中古时期艺术宗教为主要研究对象，不仅深入探讨中国本土资料所反映的佛教、景教的“中国化”逻辑，而且以文化交流的视角切入，探讨域内与域外以及域内不同区域之间、乃至不同宗教之间的交流与互动。选题由遗迹、遗物而发，或以遗迹、遗物为依托，既有对新材料与新问题的考察，也有对传统学术问题的重新审视。
全书收录作者论文14篇，就主体而言，大致可以分为佛教传入路径，西域佛寺、佛教艺术与僧尼社会生活，来华传教僧人，周边（扶南、柬埔寨）佛教艺术，观音信仰和观音造像，以及唐元时期景教（基督教）艺术中的佛教因素（文化交流）等。

二年律令与奏谳书：张家山二四七号汉墓出土法律文献释读，ISBN：9787532546688，作者：彭浩、陈伟、工藤元男

Sweepingly ambitious, The Oxford History of Western Music will illuminate, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective that challenges the received wisdom of the field,
Richard Taruskin sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history.
Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on
structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each stylistic period-key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific
events-influenced and directed compositional choices. Unlike earlier surveys, Taruskin provides greater attention to the full range of 20th century music, including American music as part of the mainstream tradition of western music, women in music, and popular musics.
The main five volumes are filled with helpful illustrations that enhance the historical context of musical composition, as well as musical examples and black-and-white pictures throughout. The sixth volume provides a comprehensive chronology, further reading and other source material, and an index
to the entire set.
Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, The Oxford History of Western Music will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse
tradition. Pre-publication price until 12/31/04. $699.00 thereafter.

《高原上》一书是两位作者一家三人由澳大利亚出发，在南美洲旅行的游记，记录了他们在圣地亚哥、布宜诺斯艾利斯、利马等城市和秘鲁高原上旅行的所见所想，在这些游记中，作者不仅描写了旅行过程中见到的优美风光，还详细讲述了极具南美洲特色的风土人情，更穿插了极其丰富的历史文化知识，以及作者与异域文化的深刻思索。