凯伦·阿姆斯特朗，英国著名作家。1981年出版了处女作《穿过窄门》，记录了自己在罗马天主教修道院的严酷制度下所亲历的七年修女生活。这本书出版后立即风靡一时。随后，她创作一系列的畅销书，如《神话的历史》、《耶路撒冷》、《万物初始：重读<创世记 >》、《伊斯兰简史》、《佛陀》等。其中《神的历史》被译成三十多种语言，在《纽约时报》畅销书榜上久居不下，创造了一个热销奇迹。而《佛陀》一书也成为全球最畅销的图书这一。销售超过三百万册。自1982后起，她便成为自由作家和电台节目主持人。凯伦·阿姆斯特朗现居伦敦。

This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, The Myths. "Human beings have always been mythmakers." So begins Karen Armstrong&#146;s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes...(展开全部)

This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past. A History of England, Volume 1 (Prehistory to 1714), focuses on the most important developments in the history of England through the early 18th century. Topics inc...(展开全部)

This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stresses the economic relationsh...(展开全部)

★ 著者简介 弗雷德里克·科普勒斯顿，著名哲学史家，大英帝国勋章获得者、英国国家学术院院士、英国皇家哲学学会成员、亚里士多德学会成员、伦敦大学海斯洛普学院教授、牛津大学圣约翰学院荣誉院士。 ★ 译者简介 陈焱，2014年博士毕业于复旦大学哲学学院。现为上海财经大学人文学院哲学系副教授，博士生导师。主要研究领域为中国近代思想、明清哲学。著有《几与时——论王船山对传统道学范式的反思与转化》，获2018年第14届上海市哲学社会科学优秀成果奖著作类二等奖。主要论文有《玄思死亡：当代哲学分析视角下的<形影神>》《王阳明在“四句教”公案中的思想立场研究》《郭嵩焘洋务思想中的船山哲学影响》等。

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...(展开全部)

Insightful, informed, and at times controversial in its conclusions, A Short History of Medicine offers an exceptional introduction to the major and many minor facets of its subject. In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of mo...(展开全部)

弗兰克·冈萨雷斯-克鲁希（Frank Gonzalez-Crussi） 墨西哥裔医学专家、科普作家，美国西北大学病理学荣誉退休教授。1936年他出生在墨西哥城的一家小药铺中。从加拿大女王大学医学院毕业后，他移居美国，历任印第安纳大学、西北大学病理学教授。他曾以英语、西班牙语创作大量有关解剖、外科手术、产科相关的科普著作，《走进一颗心：探索身体内部的奥秘》曾于2014年获德国默克文学奖。部分作品也被BBC等机构改编为纪录片、戏剧等。