Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.

With the same brilliance that characterized his classic I, Claudius , Robert Graves continues the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself and his handicaps. Claudius the God reveals the splendor, vitality and decadence of the Roman Empire through the eyes of the wry and bemused Claudius who reigns as emperor for thirteen years. The crippled Claudi...(展开全部)

罗伯特·格雷夫斯（Robert Graves) 1895年出生于温布尔登，父亲是爱尔兰作家阿尔弗雷德·珀西瓦尔·格雷夫斯，母亲是阿玛莉亚·冯·兰克。一战爆发时，他离开学校入伍，成了皇家威尔士步兵团的一名上尉。1926年，他在开罗大学当过一年的英国文学教授，除此之外，他都以写作为生，作品多为历史小说。1929年，他写出了自传《向一切告别》，这本自传很快就成为公认的当代经典，同时也是一部特别有价值的战争文献。 1961年，他当被聘为牛津大学教授，并于1971年成为牛津大学圣约翰学院的荣誉研究员。1985年12月7日，罗伯特·格雷夫斯逝世于马略卡岛，1929年以后他就一直住在此地。他去世时，《泰晤士报》写道：“作为风格独特的散文作家、历史小说家和记录者，罗伯特·格雷夫斯的斐然成就会让他名垂青史。”

在线阅读本书 Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of a...(展开全部)

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"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this ...(展开全部)

What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy - from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu - the history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans, common people, proletarians, ...(展开全部)

Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast 'reason' and 'religion' in opposition, "God, the Gift, and Postmodernism", seizes the opportunity to question the authority of 'the modern' and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jea...(展开全部)

保罗·戴维斯，英国物理学家，主要研究现代宇宙学。University of Newcastle upon Tyne的理论物理学教授。

How did the universe begin and how will it end? What is matter? What is mind, and can it survive death? What are time and space, and how do they relate to ideas about God? Is the order of the universe the result of accident or design? The most profound and age-old questions of existence -- for centuries the focus of religion and philosophy -- may soon be answered through ...(展开全部)