A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Jarman exposes the unexpected routes that Viking travel and trade took - and how these kings of the river were frequent travellers of the Middle East and the Silk Road. One June day late in the eighth century, Norse seafarers arrived at the English island of Lindisfarne. They waged a ...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R. 鲍恩（Stephen R. Bown），畅销书作家，著有十余本关于科学史、探索史和思想史的非虚构书籍，作品被翻译成九种语言，并多次获奖，如不列颠哥伦比亚图书奖、阿尔伯塔图书奖、威廉·米尔斯极地图书奖。擅长在写作中结合传记和叙事，用富有创造性的语言刻画生动的人物形象，讲述精彩的历史，著有《1494：瓜分世界的条约与大航海时代的来临》（1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half）、《贸易与殖民：霸权公司三百年（1600—1900）》（Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900）等著作。 于振洋，复旦大学历史学系博士后，东北师范大学世界中古史研究所博士，研究方向为中世纪晚期英国经济...(展开全部)

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings a...(展开全部)

Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock?n?roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and halluci...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happie st people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hat...(展开全部)