The fascinating story of the visualized languages, alphabets, and other wriitjng systems, hand-written and block-printed books of the Mongols, Kalmyks, Buryats, and other Mongolian nations is outlined in this study by one of the world's preeminent scholars of the region. The mostly nomadic peoples of the Mongolian language family have a long history of letters. The Khitans had ...(展开全部)

The 13th century Secret History of the Mongols, covering the great Činggis Qan’s (1162-1227) ancestry and life, stands out as a literary monument of first magnitude. Written partly in prose and partly in epic poetry, it is the major native source on Činggis Qan, also dealing with part of the reign of his son and successor Ögödei (r. 1229-41). This true handbook contains an hist...(展开全部)

A veteran writing teacher makes a powerful argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not very much. More Than Words argue...(展开全部)

A veteran writing teacher makes a powerful argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not very much. More Than Words argue...(展开全部)

In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both ...(展开全部)

作者简介：[英]克拉克·约翰·威利斯（1833—1910），英国历史学家、剑桥大学研究员。1833年6月24日出生于剑桥，是该大学解剖学教授威廉·克拉克博士的儿子，也是罗伯特·威利斯教授的侄子。他在剑桥伊顿和三一学院（1856年，学士），1858年成为研究员。1866—1891年任剑桥动物博物馆馆长，1891—1910年任剑桥大学注册馆长。1875年，威利斯教授将《剑桥大学建筑史》的未完成手稿遗赠给克拉克，克拉克完成了该书的出版工作，并监督了该书的出版。他于1910年10月10日在剑桥去世。 译者简介： 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等文学作品。曾经游历欧亚17个国家，译有法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century