Spellman, W. M.  | Reaktion

53,090원  | 20210101  | 9781861890870

Surveys an influential form of government whose legitimacy rests on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Comparative in approach, this text establishes connections between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of cultural contexts across the last millennium.

조엘 모키르  | Princeton University Press

53,550원  | 20251104  | 9780691265940

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium In the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the twentieth century and was always ruled by autocracies. Two Paths to Prosperity traces the emergence of two very different social organizations in premodern China and Europe—the clan and the corporation—showing how they were key factors in the economic and political divergence of these two great civilizations. In this landmark book, three leading economists offer a bold new account of why Europe and China evolved along such different trajectories. In the early Middle Ages, public goods like risk sharing, religious worship, education, and conflict resolution were provided by nonstate organizations in both societies. China increasingly relied on kin-based cooperation within clans, while weaker kinship ties in Europe gave rise to corporations such as guilds, universities, and self-governing towns. Despite performing similar functions, clans and corporations were built on very different principles—with lasting consequences until today. Providing a novel answer to a fundamental question in economic and political history, Two Paths to Prosperity shows how extended kinship in Chinese society facilitated the consolidation of autocracy and hindered innovation and economic development, and how corporations in Europe influenced emerging state institutions and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

오미경  | 조선앤북

0원  | 20140109  | 9791155780084

스페인에서 플라멩코와 함께 한 1000일간의 이야기를 담은 이 책은, 집시들의 춤인 플라멩코에 대한 소개와 더불어 플라멩코를 통해 진정한 자신을 발견해가는 저자의 일상을 세세하게 보여준다. 스페인에서의 1000일은 오로지 ‘진짜’ 플라멩코를 발견하고, ‘진짜’ 플라멩코를 추기 위한 열정으로 채워진다. 플라멩코의 거장들에게 강습을 받기 시작한 저자는, 얼마 지나지 않아 허름한 연습실이든 광장 한 구석이든 어디서나 연습에 몰두하는 자신을 발견하게 되고, 해가 지면 스페인 골목골목의 타블라오를 찾아다니며 집시들과 교감하는 자신에 놀라게 된다. 발 구르는 소리와 손뼉 소리만을 따라 떠났던 스페인은, 플라멩코와 그녀를 대면시킴으로써 열정이나 절망을 표현하는 데 한없이 서툴렀던 그녀를 변화시키고, 삶의 가치를 새롭게 발견하도록 이끈다.

 | American Library Association

99,900원  | 20140526  | 9780838911501

With the explosion in YA publishing, it's harder than ever to separate good books from the rest. Booklist magazine's editors' deep and broad knowledge of the landscape offers indispensable guidance, and here they bring together the very best of the best books for young adults published in the first decade of the 21st century.

Lovell, Julia  | Transition Vendor

25,780원  | 20070215  | 9780802142979

Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the "barbarians" at its borders. But behind the wall's intimidating exterior--and the myths that have built up around it--is a complex history that has both defined and undermined China. Author Julia Lovell has written a new and important history of the Great Wall that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millennium BC to the present day. In recent years, the Wall has become an ever more potent symbol of Chinese nationalism, of a determination to resist foreign domination. But how successful was the Wall in reality, and what was its real purpose? Was it a precursor, albeit on a huge scale, of the Berlin Wall--a barrier designed to keep its population in as much as undesirables out? Lovell looks behind the modern mythology of the Great Wall, uncovering a three-thousand-year history far more fragmented and less illustrious than its crowds of visitors imagine today. The story of the Wall winds through that of the Chinese state and the frontier policy that defined it, through the lives of the millions of individuals who supported, criticized, built, and attacked it.

 | Lorenz Books

51,750원  | 20250215  | 9780754835899

This outstanding volume by a renowned paleontologist and geologist covers the evolution of the dinosaurs, their adaptation, specialization, habitats and locations, current research and reconstructions, with 1200 illustrations from the leading artists in the field.

유원석  | 이투스북

0원  | 20211030  | 9791138901673

『Word Master 하이퍼 2000』은 최근 5개년 수능, 모평, 학평 모든 단어를 분석하여 표제어 1000 단어와 핵심 연관어 1000 단어를 수록했으며, 표제어의 핵심 의미를 영영 풀이로 제공하여 보다 정확하고 흥미로운 어휘 학습이 가능하다. 명문과 금언 예문을 통해 고난도 어휘의 적용 학습이 가능하며 보다 높은 어휘 수준에 도달할 수 있도록 구성하였다.