珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps a...(展开全部)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon i...(展开全部)

This is a contemporary and engaging student friendly text with a multinational focus conveys the dynamism of the science of psychology. Student focused features offer social context, explore interdisciplinary relationships, reinforce critical thinking and ultimately show the impact and application of the science. Each chapter of this title begins with a highly engaging vignette...(展开全部)

约翰•朱利叶斯•诺威奇于1929年生于英国。服完兵役后，他在牛津大学新学院攻读了法语和俄语文学专业。 诺威奇著述颇丰，包括《征服，1016—1130》（The Normans in the South,1967)、《王国，1130—1194》（The Kingdom in the Sun,1970）、《地中海史》（The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean,2006）、《教皇史》（¬The Popes: A History,2011）、《四君主》（Four Princes, 2017）等。 他还写了多部关于旅游、建筑和音乐的著作。此外，他曾为英国广播公司的约30部纪录片撰稿。 ★译者简介 陈薇薇，浙江杭州人，自由译者。从事翻译十余载，译有《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He ...(展开全部)