Christian Meier is one of Europe's preeminent authorities on the classical world. A Culture of Freedom marks the apex of his lifelong research on ancient Greek culture. Beginning with a section on medieval and modern Europe's enormous inheritance of Greek institutions and ideas, the book moves on to chronicle the rise of Greek civilization from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Persi...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂安·迈耶 慕尼黑大学古代史荣誉退休教授，前德国历史学家协会主席，前德国语言与文学学院院长，著有《凯撒》、《从雅典到奥斯维辛》、《被遗忘的命令与不可缺少的记忆》等作

From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for our tragic, comic, fateful age. Witness Athena born from the cracking open of Zeus's great head and follow Persephone down into the dark realm of Hades. Experience the terrible and endless fate of Prometheus after his betrayal of Ze...(展开全部)

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

Contents: Hermetic Philosophy; Seven Hermetic Principles; Mental Transmutation; The All; the Mental Universe; Divine Paradox; "The All" in All; Planes of Correspondence; Vibration; Polarity; Rhythm; Causation; Gender; Mental Gender; Hermetic Axioms. Was Paul Foster Case one of the "Three Initiates?" We think so!

In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe. He shows how, despite its eli...(展开全部)

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to t...(展开全部)

乔尔‧莫基尔（Joel Mokyr），西北大学罗伯特?H.斯托茨人文科学教授和经济学与历史学教授，特拉维夫大学埃坦?柏格拉斯经济学院教授，曾任美国经济史协会会长。他的研究获得诸多奖项，是美国经济学联合会杰出会士奖、荷兰皇家科学院的海尼根历史学奖和国际巴尔扎恩经济史奖得主。 他已出版了《开明经济》（The Enlightened Economy）和《雅典娜的礼物》（The Gifts of Athena）等多本著作。