This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)

雅各布·阿伯特（Jacob Abbott，1803 —1879），美国畅销书作家，教育家，一生写作近两百本书，以简短的历史、传记和科普作品为主，著有《凯撒传》《成吉思汗传》《埃及艳后传》等世界名人传记和《罗拉欧洲旅行记》等青少年科普小说，深受读者欢迎。 毕婷 ，一九七九年生，陕西汉中人，西安外国语大学文学学士，西北师范大学英语教学论硕士，现任教于西北师范大学外国语学院。在省级期刊发表过数篇学术文章，参与两项省级重点科研项目，并数次参与涉外翻译工作。

Flora Kimmich has translated J.G. Droysen's classic study into English for the first time. Through her masterly rendering she brings this foundational work of modern historiography of the ancient world to a new audience. Based entirely on ancient sources, this is an exhaustive, beautifully narrated account of Alexander from the origins of the ancient Macedonian kingdom to Alexa...(展开全部)

Talented young historian Maya Jasanoff tells an alternative history of the British Empire, one that brings us the very personal stories of those British people who found themselves on the edges of Empire. Instead of a story of `conquest', she brings us startling and fascinating stories of cross-cultural exchange. A Palladian mansion filled with western art in the centre of old ...(展开全部)

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip ofMount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based...(展开全部)

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford s...(展开全部)

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)