Loeb Classical Library 39 The history of the Roman Republic for the years 49-48 BCE centers on two striking personalities: Julius Caesar and Pompey. Caesar’s account of the war between them, from its outbreak to the decisive battle of Pharsalus in 48--in lucid and spare prose--is here well translated by Peskett.

[加]卜正民（Timothy Brook） 当代最著名的汉学家之一。多伦多大学文学士，哈佛大学文学硕士、哲学博士。历任多伦多大学、斯坦福大学等校教授，英国牛津大学邵氏汉学教授，现为加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院历史系教授。卜正民学术视野广阔，主要从事亚洲历史和文化的研究，研究领域涉及明代社会和文化史、二战时期日本在中国的占领、当代人权问题等。编撰著作（含合著合编）数种，主要有：《纵乐的困惑：明代的商业与文化》《为权力祈祷：佛教与晚明中国士绅社会的形成》《中国与历史资本主义：汉学知识的系谱学》《民族的构建：亚洲精英及其民族身份》《明代的社会与国家》《维梅尔的帽子：从一幅画看全球化贸易的兴起》《鸦片政权：中国、英国和日本，1839—1952年》《通敌：战时中国的日本代领与地方精英》《明清历史的地理动因》《亚细亚生产方式在中国》《杀千刀：中西视野下的凌迟...(展开全部)

The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from eighteenth-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and postcommunist regimes elsewhere. In China, the Democracy Movement forced the concept onto the intellectual agenda during the struggle to come to terms with the growth of dissent and the failure of s...(展开全部)

作者是 美国空军上将 威廉·W·畅莫姆耶尔 越战期间担任第7航空队司令官 1966-1968年

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’ From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en ro...(展开全部)

A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the E...(展开全部)

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’ From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en ro...(展开全部)

茱莉亚·查尔德，1912年出生在美国加州的帕萨迪纳。她毕业于史密斯女子学院，二战期间在美国战略服务处任职，并遇到了后来的先生保罗·查尔德。1948年，她随夫君移居法国，为法国精致的美食彻底折服，因此进入著名的蓝带烹饪学校学习厨艺。名厨就此诞生。 37岁才开始学习烹饪的茱莉亚踏入了法国美食这个精妙的天地，也踏入了她精彩纷呈的下半生。1961年，划时代的《掌握法国菜的烹饪艺术》在美国出版，顿时在全美掀起法式料理的热潮。这本厚达734页的洋洋巨著，以前所未见的、详尽而精确的写作风格迅速征服了读者，至今仍在不断再版。 1963年，茱莉亚开始主持名为“法国大厨”的电视烹饪节目，热情欢快的爽朗天性和独一无二的颤抖嗓音让她成为家喻户晓的名厨。1966年，她的头像登上《时代》杂志的封面。 四十年间，茱莉亚主持了数十档公共电视节目，撰写了大量烹饪著作。由于成就非凡，她...(展开全部)