The great three-sided war continues, Rome against Persia against the tribes of the desert now commanded by Mohammed of Mekkah. The tide is turning against the Eastern Empire--the Emperor Heraclius lies bedridden in Constantinople and his brother Theodore has lost a great battle to the tribes. In the West, Rome lies devastated by the long-pent eruption of Vesuvius. And in the hi...(展开全部)

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story – and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper – and cousin by marriage – of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainswort...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental exploration of the tides of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, impotence and l...(展开全部)

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast ...(展开全部)

Herbert J. Storing's "Complete Anti-Federalist," hailed as "a civic event of enduring importance" (Leonard W. Levy, "New York Times Book Review"), indisputably established the importance of the Anti-Federalists' writings for our understanding of the Constitution. As Storing wrote in his introduction, "If the foundation of the American polity was laid by the Federalists, the Ant...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 It is a day in the country, and everthing is hot and still. Then the hazy sky begins to shift. Something is astir, something soundless.

在线阅读本书 It is a day in the country, and everthing is hot and still. Then the hazy sky begins to shift. Something is astir, something soundless.

弗里德里希二世（亦称“腓特烈大王”，1712-1786），普鲁士国王，政治家、军事家、思想家，普鲁士乃至德意志国家基业的奠基者。在位期间文治武功，使普鲁士跻身欧洲强国之列；天生爱智慧、好思辨，与同时代欧洲启蒙思想家过从甚密，创作作品涉及哲学、政治、史学、军事、文学等领域，有“无忧宫哲人”之称。

弗里德里希二世（亦称“腓特烈大王”，1712-1786），普鲁士国王，政治家、军事家、思想家，普鲁士乃至德意志国家基业的奠基者。在位期间文治武功，使普鲁士跻身欧洲强国之列；天生爱智慧、好思辨，与同时代欧洲启蒙思想家过从甚密，创作作品涉及哲学、政治、史学、军事、文学等领域，有“无忧宫哲人”之称。