莫恩斯·特罗勒·拉尔森（Mogens Trolle Larsen，1937— ）是哥本哈根大学亚述学荣休教授，作品有《征服亚述：发掘古老的土地》（The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land）等。他是美国哲学学会、欧洲科学院和丹麦皇家科学与文学院的成员。2018年，瑞典文学院因他在亚述语言、文化、经济和贸易方面的卓越研究以及他把这些研究普及给读者的能力，授予他Gad Rausing奖，该奖被誉为“小诺贝尔奖”。 史孝文，牡丹江师范学院历史与文化学院教师，哥本哈根大学博士，研究方向为亚述学、古代地中海周边文明。

What does "Big Brother" tell us about Athenian democracy? What does the fate of Achilles say about the death of Ayrton Senna? Do pop stars sell their souls to the devil? Why does anyone want to be famous? And why do we want them to be? We're told that we're celebrity-obsessed. But are we? When we elevate mere mortals to the status of gods, is this a new disease, or a more ancie...(展开全部)

Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. "Slow Reading in a Hurried Age" reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its goal not the mere gathering of information but the deeper understanding that only...(展开全部)

From a Christian, Greek- and Armenian-speaking land to a predominantly Muslim and Turkish speaking one, the Islamisation of medieval Anatolia would lay the groundwork for the emergence of the Ottoman Empire as a world power and ultimately the modern Republic of Turkey. Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock offers a new understa...(展开全部)