Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti’s lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how ...(展开全部)

约翰·罗谟，毕业于英国皇家艺术学院，参与美国芝加哥大学在上埃及底比斯碑言文调查，从此开始考古生涯。过去二十五年间，他在专业考古　与著书、影视创作之间游走，其著作和电视片获得批评家的好评。他目前在地中海地区和中东生活和工作。

约翰·罗谟，毕业于英国皇家艺术学院，参与美国芝加哥大学在上埃及底比斯碑言文调查，从此开始考古生涯。过去二十五年间，他在专业考古　与著书、影视创作之间游走，其著作和电视片获得批评家的好评。他目前在地中海地区和中东生活和工作。

斯坦利•麦克里斯特尔： 美国陆军四星上将，美军驻阿富汗以及国际安全援助部队的指挥官，曾担任联合参谋部主任和联合特种作战司令部的指挥官。在他的领导下，联合特种作战司令部迅速崛起，成为一个可在全球许多国家开展战地外小规模（反恐、反暴、救援等）行动的组织。 坦吐姆•科林斯：马歇尔奖学金学者，在剑桥大学任教。 戴维•西尔弗曼：克里斯•富塞尔：CrossLead公司高级执行官，也曾经是美国海军海豹突击队军官。

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure a...(展开全部)

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure a...(展开全部)

彼得·弗兰科潘（Peter Frankopan） ` 英国著名历史学家。牛津大学伍斯特学院高级研究员，牛津大学拜占庭研究中心主任。曾多次在哈佛大学、剑桥大学、牛津大学、耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、纽约大学等世界顶尖学府公开演讲。

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)