作者簡介： 彼得．施奈德（Peter Schneider） 彼得．施耐德於一九四〇年出生於北德的呂北克市（Lübeck），一九六〇年代初期因為轉學到西柏林的自由大學主修日耳曼學、副修歷史學與哲學而從此定居於柏林。施耐德是德國戰後著名的左派作家，他於一九七三年發表的小說《連茨》（Lenz）是當時左派圈子人手一本的熱門作品。除了小說之外，這位多產的作家還撰寫劇本、散文與評論，其中以一些談論分裂和統一後的柏林的著作最受矚目。他還通曉英文與義大利文等多種外文，曾為德國《明鏡週刊》、美國《紐約時報》、法國《世界報》（Le Monde）及義大利《共和報》（La Repubblica）撰寫文章，並曾受邀到美國史丹佛大學、普林斯頓大學和哈佛大學等校擔任訪問學者。 譯者簡介： 莊仲黎 德國漢堡大學民族學碩士、博士候選人。曾任《講義》雜誌德文編譯，譯有《怎麼有人研究這個...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline. It then continues by forecasting the positions of China, Japan, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Soviet Union and the United...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。