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套装特惠下单19.99元 中国古典文学名著宝库(共23册)
中国古典文学名著宝库(共23册)
(明)罗贯中,吴承恩,许仲琳,冯梦龙;(清)曹雪芹,吴趼人,李宝嘉,刘鹗,曾朴,黄小配,吴敬梓,钱锡宝,梦花馆主;
¥229.99
中国传统文化浩如烟海,博大精深。一部部志怪、神魔、世情、讲史的章回体小说在宋、元讲史话本的基础上,相继脱颖而出,宛若一颗颗璀璨的明珠,在历史的长河中熠熠生辉,传承后世,昭示世人。中国古典语文学至宋、元以后发展势头异常迅猛。特别值得一提的是《三国演义》首次将历史与艺术相接合,开创了历史演义小说的先河,成为中国古典文学宝库中*部完整的长篇历史章回小说,为以后的"水浒传"、"红楼梦"等一批具有高艺术价值的作品的问世,奠定了坚实的基础。本套丛书囊括了古典小说中的精髓,甄选了历代版本之精华。是一套值得收藏的精品。
曾国藩的正面与侧面:全四册
曾国藩的正面与侧面:全四册
张宏杰
¥229.99
这既是一部曾国藩的个人生活史,也是一部晚清政治史、社会史。通过这本书,不仅能了解一个更*的曾国藩,也能了解中国传统社会政治的运转规律。 套装全4册,围绕晚清名臣曾国藩的人生际遇与处世方法展开,*部讲述曾国藩的为官之路和立身准则,由此探讨曾国藩作为一个典型的封建官员的内心世界和事业成败;第二部主要讲述曾国藩的家风和治家之道,通过分析他与父母、兄弟、子女的相处方式,展现晚清时期典型官绅家庭中的伦理关系;第三部主要讲述曾国藩与同僚、下属之间相互合作又有所冲突的关系,深入分析晚清官场中的人际交往模式和种种离合暗流,更加立体地再现了曾国藩所处的时代环境与社会环境。 第四部通过观察他的经济生活,可窥探这个传统社会*后一个圣人少为人知的一个侧面,他的“真诚”与“虚伪”,在金钱诱惑面前采取的既原则分明又现实圆通的态度,呈现了晚清官场种种微妙而复杂的“规矩”。
哲学是很好玩儿的(套装共15册)
哲学是很好玩儿的(套装共15册)
(英)J.F.沃芬登 著,黄俊洁 译,(美)尤金·奥尼尔 著 刘霞 译,(日)武内义雄 著 汪馥泉 译
¥229.99
《哲学是很好玩儿的》(套装共15册)包括生命哲学、心灵哲学等多种哲学思想结晶,读者可以从入门开始,通过通俗易懂的方式学会如何用哲学思维思考,感受哲学里的自我和世界,帮读者重新审视自我和我们栖居的世界,以及和这个世界的关系,捕捉心中迸发的迷惑与感悟,进而把它们锤炼为人生的智慧。
北欧悬疑小说天王:尤·奈斯博作品集(全12册)
北欧悬疑小说天王:尤·奈斯博作品集(全12册)
尤·奈斯博
¥229.99
本套书是北欧悬疑小说天王尤·奈斯博全警探悬疑小说。分别为《猎头游戏》《蝙蝠》《蟑螂》《知更鸟》《复仇者》《五星芒》《救赎者》《雪人》《猎豹:全二册》《幽灵》《警察》《焦渴》共12册 《猎头游戏》:一桩尔虞我诈的骗局×两个各怀心机的猎人×一场变调的猎头游戏:情节环环相扣,节奏紧张刺激,恶搞名场面频出,荒诞又好笑。 《蝙蝠》:多名金发女子惨遭性侵继而被勒死,当所有的线索指向马戏团小丑,抓捕在即,小丑却被残忍杀害! 《蟑螂》:挪威驻泰国大史被发现死在妓院旅馆,硬汉警探哈利再赴异国,勇闯曼谷红灯区寻找线索,却发现他被派来根本只是个烟雾弹,没人希望他找到真相。 奥斯陆三部曲之《知更鸟》:一把目的不明、威力巨大的狙击步枪,悄悄流入挪威,指向一桩尚未被人发觉、暗中酝酿的罪案。 奥斯陆三部曲之《复仇者》:一桩无迹可寻的银行劫案,一首爱恨交缠的生命恋曲。哈利前女友突然死亡,他沦为了命案的头号嫌疑人...... 奥斯陆三部曲之《五星芒》:接连发生的女子遇害或失踪案,撕裂了奥斯陆悠闲的宁静夏日。这是一个魔鬼设下的死亡游戏,一切都和数字“5”有关。 《救赎者》:奈斯博登峰之作《雪人》前传。这是后一项任务,这项任务只需要一发子弹。 《雪人》:这一年,哈利即将步入40大关,他的爱人也被卷入危险之中..... 《猎豹:全二册》:一件被称为苹果的骇人凶器,一个藏身暗处的疯狂猎手。 《幽灵》:也许生命只教会你一件事,那就是时光无法倒流。 《警察》:人生中有些事,终究无可逃避,因为完成它们就是你存在的意义! 《焦渴》:他的焦渴就像火,如果不浇熄,就会吞没一切。
黎东方讲史(全套共九册)
黎东方讲史(全套共九册)
黎东方
¥229.99
 本书以讲史形式阐述了自秦朝统一六国至晋朝建立之间的历史,涉及的重要人物有秦始皇、李斯、刘邦、项羽、汉武帝等;重要事件有焚书坑儒、指鹿为马、垓下之战、吴楚七国之乱等。“细说体”为黎东方独创的讲史形式。以通俗生动的文笔叙述严肃的历史故事,让读者以看《三国演义》的轻松心情,获得的却是胜于《三国志》的历史知识,已出五种“细说”已受到读者欢迎。如今已一次将从秦汉至民国的中国历史全部补齐,九册整套推出,估计影响会更大。
亲历中国考古系列(套装全八册)
亲历中国考古系列(套装全八册)
樊锦诗 等
¥229.99
此套系含《灿烂敦煌》《曾侯乙墓》《法门寺地宫》《楼兰尼雅》《西汉南越国》《满城汉墓》《马王堆汉墓》《秦兵马俑》8本,10位考古专家百万字深入解读八大文化遗存。
中国散文诗一百年大系(全八册)
中国散文诗一百年大系(全八册)
¥229.99
《中国散文诗一百年大系》(全八册)为套装,八个分册。该书把近一百年来散文诗的精华作品汇编在一起,既有对乡村田野风光的赞美,也有对人间美好情感的颂扬。套书整体上创意新颖,文章精美。是一部了解、学习、借鉴、研究中国近一百年来散文诗兴起、发展概况的比较好的文集。
一周特价2.21-3.9 西方经典儿童文学合集(英文版套装共25册)
西方经典儿童文学合集(英文版套装共25册)
促销价:¥7.99|¥260.51
本套书精选欧美国家流传多年的经典儿童文学作品,均为英文版,既能培养孩子的阅读兴趣,又能提高其英语水平。如《一个男孩子在巴西丛林的历险》,是英国儿童文学作家罗伯特·迈克尔·巴兰坦的代表作,又叫《马丁·拉勒》。本书写了一个男孩子在巴西丛林的历险经历,故事生动逼真,妙趣横生。塑造了机智勇敢的男孩子形象,赢得了众多读者的喜爱,此后作品被广泛流传。作品向读者提供了非同寻常的生活方式,给人以新鲜感,真实活泼的气氛也加强了作品的可读性。《绿山墙的安妮》被誉为“世界上甜蜜的少女成长故事”。作品讲述了纯真善良、热爱生活的女主人公小安妮,了自幼失去父母,11岁时被绿山墙的马修和玛丽拉兄妹领养,但她个性鲜明,富于幻想,而且自尊自强,凭借自己的刻苦勤奋,不但得到领养人的喜爱,也赢得老师和同学的关心和友谊。 成长与梦想是全书的主题,作者以安妮的故事告诉人们:只要胸怀梦想,不懈努力,生活就会丰富多彩,生命就会美丽多姿。马克·吐温评价说:“安妮是继不朽的爱丽丝之后令人感动和喜爱的形象。”
有种后宫叫德妃(全七册)
有种后宫叫德妃(全七册)
阿琐
¥229.60
宫斗文坛一直在翘首期盼的高格局划时代之作—— 高智商高情商宫斗:有种后宫叫德妃 ★传奇:出身包衣,却统领后宫,泽被三朝 她出生满族包衣,却逆袭成为千古一帝康熙宠爱的妃子;她是九龙夺嫡胜者雍正之母,她堪比孝庄慈禧,传奇一生泽被康乾盛世;她以无上大智慧高情商,征服帝王,领袖后宫,缔造史上独一无二的“德妃后宫”。 ★宫斗:不用你死我活也能当皇太后 你以为的宫斗都是如媚娘甄嬛一路打怪升级撕名牌?高段位的宫斗是不用杀光敌人牺牲朋友埋葬爱情也能升级BOSS!颜值不高却凭忠心护主赢得君心,出身低微却因懂事贴心获孝庄太后言传身教,盛宠不倦却能恪守方寸化解后宫争斗。她是妃子,温良纯正无欲无求让君心长留;她是额娘,大智慧高情商助子成王。 ★大咖:清朝大咖联袂出演 在这里,几乎能看见你所熟知的活跃清朝舞台的大咖们: 和韦小宝智擒鳌拜平定三藩、带着宜妃微服私访的小玄子康熙 教晴川弹琴、和怜儿跳舞、带若曦去哭、与甄嬛纠缠的四爷雍正 与多尔衮爱恨情仇、帮康熙开创盛世的大玉儿孝庄 与纪晓岚、刘锣锅比口才、同小燕子晒父爱的弘历乾隆 人生若只如初见的旷世才子纳兰性德 为晴川疯狂、对若曦痴情的八爷胤禩 四爷*神秘善良的纯元、霸气外漏的融芳华妃、陪康熙微服私访心直口快的宜妃等等 ★六味暖心:甜腻·纯爱·唯美·虐恋·温情·壁咚 1.“健健康康的才好,朕要乌雅岚琪陪着朕一辈子,答应朕。” 2.下辈子咱们不要生在帝王家,朕就和你一生一世一双人。 3.“倘若皇上没走远,瞧见我怎么办,又或我忍不住去看他,我怕看到他……我怕看到他,夜里忍不住想哭” 4. 玄烨的心一点一点沉下来,他怎能奢望岚琪永远是那个,为了留住自己而不惜掀开被子露出身体的小宫女?既然想要她永远留在身边,好好地留在身边,她就必须融入这个世界,沾染后宫的气息,成为一个后宫女人,而自己并非厌恶,只是舍不得,只是心疼。 5.“乌雅岚琪,你胆子可不小,朕这辈子还没尝过背黑锅的滋味!” “您连江山都担得,背一次黑锅算什么。” 她是无欲无求的小宫女,他是霸气倔强的新帝,年龄相仿,心思相同,两个人在美的年华遇到彼此。 他,只许自己欺负她,彻夜教她读书识字,偷偷望着她的背影,为她的笨拙和善良默默心疼。 她,守护他胜过自己的生命和尊严,思念他至夜夜以泪洗面,爱他胜过自己至亲骨肉。 她用一生换他一世,他用一世周全她一生
Freedom and the End of Reason
Freedom and the End of Reason
Velkley, Richard L.
¥229.55
In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianism-not merely the Second Critique-focuses on a "e;critique of practical reason"e; and is a response to a problem that Kant saw as intrinsic to reason itself: the teleological problem of its goodness. Reconstructing the influence of Rousseau on Kant's thought, Velkley demonstrates that the relationship between speculative philosophy and practical philosophy in Kant is far more intimate than generally has been perceived. By stressing a Rousseau-inspired notion of reason as a provider of practical ends, he is able to offer an unusually complete account of Kant's idea of moral culture.
Little Magazine in Contemporary America
Little Magazine in Contemporary America
Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz
¥229.55
Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging writers become established authors. Although changing technology and the increasingly harsh financial realities of publishing over the past three decades would seem to have pushed little magazines to the brink of extinction, their story is far more complicated.In this collection, Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz gather the reflections of twenty-three prominent editors whose little magazines have flourished over the past thirty-five years. Highlighting the creativity and innovation driving this diverse and still vital medium, contributors offer insights into how their publications sometimes succeeded, sometimes reluctantly folded, but mostly how they evolved and persevered. Other topics discussed include the role of little magazines in promoting the work and concerns of minority and women writers, the place of universities in supporting and shaping little magazines, and the online and offline future of these publications.Selected contributorsBetsy Sussler, BOMB; Lee Gutkind, Creative Nonfiction; Bruce Andrews, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E; Dave Eggers, McSweeney's; Keith Gessen, n+1; Don Share, Poetry; Jane Friedman, VQR; Amy Hoffman, Women's Review of Books; and more.?
What Did the Romans Know?
What Did the Romans Know?
Lehoux, Daryn
¥229.55
What did the Romans know about their worldQuite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about the natural world have no place in modern science-the umbrella-footed monsters and dog-headed people that roamed the earth and the stars that foretold human destinies-their claims turn out not to be so radically different from our own.?Lehoux draws upon a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the first century BC to the second century AD. He begins with Cicero's theologico-philosophical trilogy On the Nature of the Gods, On Divination, and On Fate, illustrating how Cicero's engagement with nature is closely related to his concerns in politics, religion, and law. Lehoux then guides readers through highly technical works by Galen and Ptolemy, as well as the more philosophically oriented physics and cosmologies of Lucretius, Plutarch, and Seneca, all the while exploring the complex interrelationships between the objects of scientific inquiry and the norms, processes, and structures of that inquiry. This includes not only the tools and methods the Romans used to investigate nature, but also the Romans' cultural, intellectual, political, and religious perspectives. Lehoux concludes by sketching a methodology that uses the historical material he has carefully explained to directly engage the philosophical questions of incommensurability, realism, and relativism.?By situating Roman arguments about the natural world in their larger philosophical, political, and rhetorical contexts, What Did the Romans Knowdemonstrates that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex.
Poet's Freedom
Poet's Freedom
Stewart, Susan
¥229.55
Why do we need new artHow free is the artist in makingAnd why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western cultureThe MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in The Poet's Freedom. Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary to making and is itself something made, but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self-determination that might serve in other spheres of work.Stewart traces the ideas of freedom and making through insightful readings of an array of Western philosophers and poets-Plato, Homer, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, Dante, and Coleridge are among her key sources. She begins by considering the theme of making in the Hebrew Scriptures, examining their accountof a god who creates the world and leaves humans free to rearrange and reform the materials of nature. She goes on to follow the force of moods, sounds, rhythms, images, metrical rules, rhetorical traditions, the traps of the passions, and the nature of language in the cycle of making and remaking. Throughout the book she weaves the insight that the freedom to reverse any act of artistic making is as essential as the freedom to create.?A book about the pleasures of making and thinking as means of life, The Poet's Freedom explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences. This engaging and beautifully written notebook on making will attract anyone interested in the creation of art and literature.
How Life Began
How Life Began
Meinesz, Alexandre
¥229.55
The origin of life is a hotly debated topic. The Christian Bible states that God created the heavens and the Earth, all in about seven days roughly six thousand years ago. This episode in Genesis departs markedly from scientific theories developed over the last two centuries which hold that life appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago in the form of bacteria, followed by unicellular organisms half a millennia later. It is this version of genesis that Alexandre Meinesz explores in this engaging tale of life's origins and evolution.?How Life Began elucidates three origins, or geneses, of life-bacteria, nucleated cells, and multicellular organisms-and shows how evolution has sculpted life to its current biodiversity through four main events-mutation, recombination, natural selection, and geologic cataclysm.?As an ecologist who specializes in algae, the first organisms to colonize Earth, Meinesz brings a refreshingly novel voice to the history of biodiversity and emphasizes here the role of unions in organizing life. For example, the ingestion of some bacteria by other bacteria led to mitochondria that characterize animal and plant cells, and the chloroplasts of plant cells.?As Meinesz charmingly recounts, life's grandeur is a result of an evolutionary tendency toward sociality and solidarity. He suggests that it is our cohesion and collaboration that allows us to solve the environmental problems arising in the decades and centuries to come. Rooted in the science of evolution but enlivened with many illustrations from other disciplines and the arts, How Life Began?intertwines the rise of bacteria and multicellular life with Vermeer's portrait of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the story of Genesis and Noah, Meinesz's son's early experiences with Legos, and his own encounters with other scientists. All of this brings a very human and humanistic tone to Meinesz's charismatic narrative of the three origins of life.?
On the Nature of Limbs
On the Nature of Limbs
Owen, Richard
¥229.55
The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical discoveries and offered theoretical innovations that were crucial to the proof of evolution. Among his many lasting contributions to science was the first clear definition of the term homology-"e;the same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function."e; He also graphically demonstrated that all vertebrate species were built on the same skeletal plan and devised the vertebrate archetype as a representation of the simplest common form of all vertebrates.Just as Darwin's ideas continue to propel the modern study of adaptation, so too will Owen's contributions fuel the new interest in homology, organic form, and evolutionary developmental biology. His theory of the archetype and his views on species origins were first offered to the general public in On the Nature of Limbs, published in 1849. It reemerges here in a facsimile edition with introductory essays by prominent historians, philosophers, and practitioners from the modern evo-devo community.
Until Choice Do Us Part
Until Choice Do Us Part
Eby, Clare Virginia
¥229.55
For centuries, people have been thinking and writing-and fiercely debating-about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a tool for social change.In Until Choice Do Us Part, Clare Virginia Eby offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the turn into the twentieth century. She begins with reformers like sexologist Havelock Ellis, anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons, and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who argued that spouses should be "e;class equals"e; joined by private affection, not public sanction. ?Then Eby guides us through the stories of three literary couples-Upton and Meta Fuller Sinclair, Theodore and Sara White Dreiser, and Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood-who sought to reform marriage in their lives and in their writings, with mixed results. With this focus on the intimate side of married life, Eby views a historical moment that changed the nature of American marriage-and that continues to shape marital norms today.
Enigma of Diversity
Enigma of Diversity
Berrey, Ellen
¥229.55
Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era-but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victoryWhat does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it?Ellen Berrey digs deep into those questions in The Enigma of Diversity. Drawing on six years of fieldwork and historical sources dating back to the 1950s and making extensive use of three case studies from widely varying arenas-housing redevelopment in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, affirmative action in the University of Michigan's admissions program, and the workings of the human resources department at a Fortune 500 company-Berrey explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends. In each case, diversity affirms inclusiveness, especially in the most coveted jobs and colleges, yet it resists fundamental change in the practices and cultures that are the foundation of social inequality. Berrey shows how this has led racial progress itself to be reimagined, transformed from a legal fight for fundamental rights to a celebration of the competitive advantages afforded by cultural differences.Powerfully argued and surprising in its conclusions, The Enigma of Diversity reveals the true cost of the public embrace of diversity: the taming of demands for racial justice.
Conjugations
Conjugations
Gopal, Sangita
¥229.55
Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radically. Production and distribution of films became regulated, advertising and marketing created a largely middle-class audience, and films began to fit into genres like science fiction and horror. In this bold study of what she names New Bollywood, Sangita Gopal contends that the key to understanding these changes is to analyze films' evolving treatment of romantic relationships.Gopalargues that the form of the conjugal duo in movies reflects other social forces in India's new consumerist and global society. She takes a daring look at recent Hindi films and movie trends-the decline of song-and-dance sequences, the upgraded status of the horror genre, and the rise of the multiplex and multi-plot-to demonstrate how these relationships exemplify different formulas of contemporary living. A provocative account of how cultural artifacts can embody globalization's effects on intimate life, Conjugations will shake up the study of Hindi film.
Accommodated Animal
Accommodated Animal
Shannon, Laurie
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Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "e;animal"e; itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: "e;I think, therefore I am."e; Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what she terms cosmopolity.?With Shakespeare as her touchstone, Shannon explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of Genesis to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, Shannon argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering "e;the question of the animal"e; historically, The Accommodated Animal makes a brilliant contribution to cross-disciplinary debates engaging animal studies, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
Laura J. Miller
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Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as in other areas of retail, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. This has been especially pronounced in bookselling, argues Laura J. Miller, because more than most other consumer goods, books are the focus of passionate debate. What drives that debateAnd why do so many people believe that bookselling should be immune to questions of profit?In Reluctant Capitalists, Miller looks at a century of book retailing, demonstrating that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new. It began one hundred years ago when department stores began selling books, continued through the 1960s with the emergence of national chain stores, and exploded with the formation of "e;superstores"e; in the 1990s. The advent of the Internet has further spurred tremendous changes in how booksellers approach their business. All of these changes have met resistance from book professionals and readers who believe that the book business should somehow be "e;above"e; market forces and instead embrace more noble priorities.Miller uses interviews with bookstore customers and members of the book industry to explain why books evoke such distinct and heated reactions. She reveals why customers have such fierce loyalty to certain bookstores and why they identify so strongly with different types of books. In the process, she also teases out the meanings of retailing and consumption in American culture at large, underscoring her point that any type of consumer behavior is inevitably political, with consequences for communities as well as commercial institutions.
Fighting Like a Community
Fighting Like a Community
Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi
¥229.55
The indigenous population of the Ecuadorian Andes made substantial political gains during the 1990s in the wake of a dynamic wave of local activism. The movement renegotiated land development laws, elected indigenous candidates to national office, and successfully fought for the constitutional redefinition of Ecuador as a nation of many cultures. Fighting Like a Community argues that these remarkable achievements paradoxically grew out of the deep differences-in language, class, education, and location-that began to divide native society in the 1960s.Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld explores these differences and the conflicts they engendered in a variety of communities. From protestors confronting the military during a national strike to a migrant family fighting to get a relative released from prison, Colloredo-Mansfeld recounts dramatic events and private struggles alike to demonstrate how indigenous power in Ecuador is energized by disagreements over values and priorities, eloquently contending that the plurality of Andean communities, not their unity, has been the key to their political success.