A massive crowd of people, cloaked in the colors of their beloved athletes, slowly fill a 150,000-seat arena to cheer on their favorite teams. Athletes enter the stadium amid great pomp and circumstance as opposing fans hurl insults at one another and place bets on the day's outcome. Although this familiar scene might describe a contemporary football game, it also portrays a da...(展开全部)

帕特里克·怀特Patrick White （1912—1990） 澳大利亚小说家、剧作家，20世纪最重要的英语作家之一。1973年因为“以融会了史诗风格和心理描写的叙事艺术，将一座新大陆引入文学地图”荣获诺贝尔文学奖。 怀特一生创作颇丰，出版有《人树》（1955）、《探险家沃斯》（1957）、《乘战车的人》（1961）、《风暴眼》（1973）、《树叶裙》（1976）等长篇小说12部，中短篇小说集3部，此外还有剧作8部，以及诗歌、自传及未出版作品多种。 怀特的作品笔触细腻、富于诗意，擅长在意识流及叙事之间自由切换，具有极高的艺术水准。怀特一生拒绝了无数文学奖项，也很少接受媒体采访。1990年9月病逝于他在悉尼的公寓。

Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad, yet seeming less alien among the encroaching wildlife than among the inhabitants of Saraparilla. In the wilderness she stumbles firstly upon a half-caste aborigine and then a Jewish refugee. They each place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Existing in a world of pervasive evil, al...(展开全部)

Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, s...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布赖斯（1838-1922），出生于北爱尔兰，是一位学识博洽，见解深邃的历史学家，同时还是一位政治理论家和政治活动家。除出版《神圣罗马帝国》一书奠定其学术地位，为其树立了历史家的地位以外，他发表的《美利坚共和国》也极负盛名，被视为外国人论述美国的经典著作之一。此外，所著《现代民主制度》也使作者享有盛誉。

作者简介： 本杰明·亨利·艾萨克，(Benjamin Henri Isaac)(1945.5.10 -)，特拉维夫大学古代史教授，以色列科学与人文学院成员，美国哲学学会会员。 艾萨克的研究范围涵盖了公元前6世纪至公元7世纪这一阶段。主要研究对象为古希腊史、古罗马史，以及公元前2世纪 以降的犹太史。此外他还参与了对犹太/巴勒斯坦行省的古罗马道路的测绘，以及为该地区各主要语言的古代碑文建立语料库的工作。 译者简介： 欧阳旭东，毕业于北京航空航天大学外语系，现任深圳大学外国语学院英语语言文学副教授，专业领域为英语语言文化。现已编写出版了多本英语教材，并译有数本学术著作，如传播学专著《公关造势与技巧》，古典学专著《德摩斯提尼时代的雅典民主：结构、原则与意识形态》、《想象中的希腊：神话的多重语境》等。

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the Roman military presence in the Near East. Using both well-known and neglected sources, Professor Isaac reassesses the means by which Rome achieved and maintained her contorl over the region. He discusses the extent to which current vacillating views on imperialism can affect opinions concerning the character and mechanisms by whi...(展开全部)

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted b...(展开全部)