LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And having risen from the rubble of the Blitz, i...(展开全部)

作者简介 西蒙•詹金斯（Simon Jenkins）爵士，生于1943年，毕业于牛津大学，英国历史学家、评论家、专栏作家、畅销书作家。他曾出版近20部著作，内容涵盖历史、政治、建筑等。他也是英国***的记者之一，为《卫报》《泰晤士报》（The Times）、《标准晚报》（London Evening Standard）、《金融时报》（Financial Times）等撰写专栏。他曾担任多份公职，包括英格兰遗产委员会副主席、英国国家信托基金的主席。 译者简介 宋佳，毕业于英国杜伦大学，翻译研究专业硕士，英国皇家特许语言家协会（CIOL）认证翻译。多次在中英政府、商界等研讨交流活动中，负责口笔译工作。在伦敦工作生活多年，曾任英国彼得森律师行（Peterson Law Associates）事务翻译，英国酷锐传媒（Creative Time Media）新...(展开全部)

Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into ...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thro...(展开全部)

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in E...(展开全部)

"Altogether an excellent book, at once interesting and authoritative" The Year's Work in English Studies This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China...(展开全部)

许德宝，1978年就读于山西太原师范学院（中文系），1982年考入北京师范大学中文系汉语史音韵专业研究生，1985年获硕士学位。同年赴美，就读于伊利诺州立大学语言学系，1988年获硕士学位，1991年获博士学位。同年开始在纽约州汉弥尔顿（Hamilton）文理学院任教，教授现代汉语、古代汉语、汉语史等课程，现为该学院东亚语言文学系主任。1993-1999年与黄正德共同主编《当代语言学理论丛书》（第一版、八种）。著有《北京话三声变调——音系与句法的交叉研究》（博士论文，1991）、《中文突破》（剑桥，波士顿，1995）、《生成音系学——理论及其应用》（与鲍智明、侍建国合著，中国社会科学出版社，1997）、《中国社会文化写实》（剑桥，波士顿，2000）、《汉语音系的生成研究》（学术出版社，纽约，2001）、《中国之路》（剑桥，波士顿，2002）、《留学中...(展开全部)

Book Info Offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. Examines the independent development of linguistic science in China, Medieval Islam, and India. Paper. DLC: Linguistics - History. Card catalog description This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a c...(展开全部)

萧沆（Emil Cioran, 1911—1995，也译作齐奥朗），罗马尼亚裔旅法哲人，20世紀著名怀疑论、虚无主义哲学家，以文辞新奇、思想深邃、激烈见称。他深受叔本华、尼采、舍斯托夫、陀思妥耶夫斯基影响。萧沆在欧美思想界享有盛名，作品曾被译成多种文字，苏珊•桑塔格、卡尔维诺、米兰•昆德拉等都深受其影响。