"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays." --Toronto Star In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells the untold story of the explosive feud between monarchs, clergy, and explorers that split the glob...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R. 鲍恩（Stephen R. Bown），加拿大当代著名畅销书作家，专注于科学史、探险史领域的非虚构题材，已出版十余部作品，屡获好评。其作品《白色爱斯基摩人》2016年获得表彰极地主题最佳非虚构图书的威廉·米尔斯奖（William Mills Prize for Polar Books），《最后的维京人》2012年获评“《科克斯书评》年度图书”。 唐奇，就职于南开大学图书馆，热爱文字工作，翻译人文、经管、写作类图书20余部。

The advances made by modern Spanish architecture from the 1940s, when it lay in silence and obscurity, to the 1990s, when it received worldwide acclaim, is a dramatic story, probably the most remarkable case of postwar architectural progress in Europe. This definitive critical study of postwar Spanish architecture looks at the works, projects, trends, landmarks, architects, and...(展开全部)

斯坦利·莱恩-普尔（Stanley Lane-Poole，1854—1931） 著名东方学家、考古学家，都柏林大学教授，阿拉伯史权威学者。主要著作有《摩尔人统治下的西班牙》《土耳其人的故事》《中世纪的埃及》《萨拉丁和耶路撒冷王国的陷落》等。被誉为是一位“没有偏见的欧洲历史学家”，其作品对人们客观认识欧洲以外的历史有重要影响。

The Story of the Moors in Spain, written roughly a century ago, is of course, a classic work, and its resurrection today to a rife readership, along with Lane Poole's general body of work and other literary contributions from authors addressing Moorish history, coincides with the contemporary movement of conscious Moors to awaken the general masses to an almost obscured and "fo...(展开全部)

斯坦利·莱恩-普尔（Stanley Lane-Poole，1854—1931） 著名东方学家、考古学家，都柏林大学教授，阿拉伯史权威学者。主要著作有《摩尔人统治下的西班牙》《土耳其人的故事》《中世纪的埃及》《萨拉丁和耶路撒冷王国的陷落》等。被誉为是一位“没有偏见的欧洲历史学家”，其作品对人们客观认识欧洲以外的历史有重要影响。

James Shapiro is currently the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written several award-winning books on Shakespeare, and his most recent book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, was awarded the James Tait Black Pr...(展开全部)

James Shapiro is currently the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written several award-winning books on Shakespeare, and his most recent book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, was awarded the James Tait Black Pr...(展开全部)

During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders to limit or control musical expression, music and sound permeated all layers of t...(展开全部)