When X – an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter – dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pan...(展开全部)

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist. When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creati...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

An erudite history of medicine...a welcome addition to any medical collection. -- Booklist How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant coll...(展开全部)

阿纳尔多•莫米利亚诺（Arnaldo Momigliano，1908—1987），西方20世纪古代史及古代史学史名家。1908年出生于意大利，二十年代加入都灵大学学习西方古代史，28岁成为教授。1938年莫米利亚诺因犹太人出身避难英国，留居伦敦国王学院任教直到1987年去世。莫米利亚诺是欧洲大陆古代史专业的代表人物，由于其后半生的经历而使其学术成果在英美国家广为传播，影响很大。

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

An erudite history of medicine...a welcome addition to any medical collection. -- Booklist How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant coll...(展开全部)

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Br...(展开全部)

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学荣休历史学教授，权威的奥古斯丁专家，晚期罗马帝国宗教史方面最杰出的历史学家之一。著有《西方基督教的兴起》（The Rise of Westem Christendom），《身体与社会》（The Body and Society： Men， Women， and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity），《古代晚期世界》（The World of Late Antiquity： AD 150 - 750）等。