"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)

"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。

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。

What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the questions that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of answers. The Ordinary Virtues presents Ignatieff’s discoveries and his ...(展开全部)

Through a study of the Chinese joint family in Yen-liao, a farming village in southwestern Taiwan, House United, House Dividedgives a new view of the forces that keep Chinese families together or encourage them to divide. While all major forms of the traditional Chinese family are well represented in the village, the settlement is notable for its many "large" or "joint" famili...(展开全部)

How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe, establish itself as the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's impressive new book offers a fresh and highly original answer. Empire is a global survey of the two and a halt centuries (from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth) in which the Spaniards established the most extensive empire...(展开全部)

The American classic-now available from Penguin for the first time Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, "A Death in the Family" remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee,...(展开全部)