梅芙·宾奇（Maeve Binchy，1940—2012）是出生于爱尔兰都柏林市的知名小说家、剧作家和专刊作者。她年轻时曾短暂从事教学事业，后以记者的身份转战《爱尔兰时报》（TheIrish Time），同时也在小说创作方面取得了巨大成功。她的作品曾跻身纽约时报的“最佳畅销榜”，而她本人也曾受邀参加美国知名电视节目《奥普拉读书俱乐部》（Oprah's Book Club），并在1999 年荣获英国图书奖（British Book Awards）终身成就奖。她的作品被翻译成37 种语言，全球销量累计超过40 万册。

Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of "The Well of Ascension" only by becoming a Mistborn hims...(展开全部)

Since the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has been undergoing considerable political, social, and economic change. In a Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture delivered at Princeton University in 1993, R. D. McChesney examined the historical roots of a number of the issues confronting the regi...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1969, this book consists of a revised version of Dr Chadwick's section on the oral literature of the Turkic peoples in The Growth of Literature with supplementary material on the results of research in the Soviet Union by Professor Victor Zhirmunsky. This literature is of the greatest interest and variety, and not excessively 'strange' to readers of Euro...(展开全部)

马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨Mario Vargas Llosa 著名作家，世界小说大师，被誉为“结构现实主义大师”，囊获全球重要文学大奖，包括诺贝尔文学奖：1985年获海明威文学奖，1986年获西班牙阿里图里亚斯王子文学奖，1988年获美洲金质奖章，1994年获西班牙文学的*高荣誉——塞万提斯文学奖，1999年获以色列耶路撒冷文学奖，2000年获梅嫩德斯•佩拉约国际奖，1976年被推选为国际笔会主席，2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。

在线阅读本书 The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first pub...(展开全部)

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa is ‘a work of undeniable power and skill’ (Sunday Telegraph) set in a military academy in Lima, focusing on a group of cadets whose pranks set of a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy. The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish ...(展开全部)

温妮斯蒂·马丁博士。于密歇根大学主修人类学，后于耶鲁大学取得比较文学与文化研究博士学位，侧重于人类学、人类学史与精神分析史的研究。长居纽约，有超过二十年的写作与社会研究经验。常在《今日秀》（Today）、《早安美国》（Good Morning America）、CNN、全国公共广播电台（NPR）、NBC News、BBC Newshour、福克斯新闻（Fox News）等媒体探讨亲子教育话题。另著有《Stepmonster》一书。目前与丈夫和两个儿子定居纽约市。

Yuri Bregel’s Atlas provides us with a bird’s eye view of the complicated history of this important part of the Islamic world, which is closely connected with the history of Iran, Afghanistan, China, and Russia; at different times parts of this region were included in these neighboring states, and since 1991 five new independent states emerged in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Turkm...(展开全部)

理查德•弗朗西斯•伯顿 Sir Richard Francis Burton，1821-1890 十九世纪英国最具传奇性的人物，他的一生兼具多种身份：外交官、间谍、语言天才、民族学家、翻译家、诗人以及探险家，其经历精彩刺激，有如“印第安纳•琼斯”一般，令人称奇与着迷。 伯顿通晓25种语言和15种方言，出版43卷探险记，30卷译著。他是第一个发现非洲坦噶尼喀湖的欧洲人，考察过索马里穆斯林禁地哈勒尔，还曾以“天生的”穆斯林身份去麦加、麦地那朝觐，也是第一个进入麦加的欧洲人。