An intellectual adventure through ancient France revealing how Caesar’s conquest of Gaul changed the course of French culture, forever transforming modern Europe. Julius Caesar's conquests in Gaul in the 50s BC were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake forever transformed the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After Caesar, the Gauls exchanged the...(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。

I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy strangely devoid of hedges; then the Gare du Nord at twilight, the policemen wi...(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。

I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy strangely devoid of hedges; then the Gare du Nord at twilight, the policemen wi...(展开全部)

“An exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...Much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones...This superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today.” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal Bestselling classical historian ...(展开全部)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek mathematical texts, while several chapters confront key...(展开全部)

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. "The Paradox of Hope" focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chron...(展开全部)