【罗伯特·乔丹 Robert Jordan】 当代杰出的奇幻文学大师。1948年10月17日出生于美国卡罗莱纳州的查尔斯顿市。毕业于南卡罗来纳的要塞军校，并获物理学学位。两度服役于驻越美军，获卓越飞行十字章、V字铜星章和两枚越南勇敢十字章。 热爱文学、历史和各种户外运动。热爱收藏武器。1977年开始写作，从此发誓终生与文字相伴。1990年初，出版奇幻长篇《时光之轮》第一部《世界之眼》，很快风行北美，高居《纽约时报》排行榜首，很快被各国高价引进，已达21种语言版本，全球总销量超过4000万册。 2007年9月16日，乔丹因心脏淀粉样变性绝症去世，留下大量《时光之轮》大结局的手稿。美国奇幻小说新秀布兰登·山德森（BrandonSanderson）被选中，续写《时光之轮》的传奇。 【布兰登·山德森 BrandonSanderson】 1975年生于美国内布...(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)

From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth“Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” ―Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo ...(展开全部)

Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells the story of this influential and enduring book, tracing how its famous account of the Israelites’ journey to th...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·希伯特（Christopher Hibbert，1924—2008），出生于英国莱斯特郡，毕业于牛津大学拉德利和奥里尔学院。二战期间他在伦敦爱尔兰步枪团任步兵军官，曾两次负伤，并于1945年获得军功十字勋章。普拉姆教授（J. H. Plumb）称其为“能力极高的作家”，《新政治家》称其为“传记作者中的明珠”。他是一位久负盛名的通俗历史学家。 其作品以治学严谨著称，包括《拉格伦王的灭亡》（The Destruction of Lord Raglan，荣获1962年海涅曼文学奖）、《温莎宫廷》（The Court at Windsor）、《查尔斯·狄更斯成名之路》（The Making of Charles Dickens）、《猛龙觉醒：1793—1911年的中国与西方》（The Dragon Wakes: China and the Wes...(展开全部)

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and co...(展开全部)

Our sun is one star among 50 billion in the galaxy. Our galaxy is only one among 50 billion in the universe. With a vastness this incomprehensible, it is easy to feel like we are mere specks of sand on an endless shore. But our sun is special. Though roughly 150 million kilometers separate us, we could not be more connected. Literally, everything you see comes from the sun. The...(展开全部)

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear chi...(展开全部)

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, dra...(展开全部)

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and co...(展开全部)