How did the classical Greek city come into being? What role did religion play in its formation? Athens, with its ancient citadel and central religious cult, has traditionally been the model for the emergence of the Greek city-state. But in this original and controversial investigation, Francois de Polignac suggests that the Athenian model was probably the exception, not the rul...(展开全部)

A new edition of a pioneering materialist treatise Exploring the way that production affects the social issues of class division and family, Engels develops his arguments on private property and its relationship to the subjugation of women. Engels then analyzes in detail the rise of the territorial state, ultimately extending his theory further to consider how class and ex...(展开全部)

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliograph...(展开全部)

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliograph...(展开全部)

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons. Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a writer named Houellebecq. Not long ...(展开全部)

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus—about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs, of c...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

罗三洋，男，1979年出生于安徽省六安市金寨县，1985年随家庭移居北京，毕业于北京市八一中学。1998年赴德国留学，就读于海德堡大学，留学期间翻译了约达尼斯《哥特史》，并在网络论坛上发表连载《上帝之鞭——欧洲民族大迁徙史话》，受到读者好评。2006年回国后，出版有著作《欧洲民族大迁徙史话》（文化艺术出版社，2007年）、《梦断三国》（中国国际广播出版社，2008年）、《柔然帝国 （西向天狼丛书）》（中国国际广播出版社，2009年），译著《哥特史（汉译世界学术名著丛书）》（商务印书馆，2012年）等。

罗三洋，男，1979年出生于安徽省六安市金寨县，1985年随家庭移居北京，毕业于北京市八一中学。1998年赴德国留学，就读于海德堡大学，留学期间翻译了约达尼斯《哥特史》，并在网络论坛上发表连载《上帝之鞭——欧洲民族大迁徙史话》，受到读者好评。2006年回国后，出版有著作《欧洲民族大迁徙史话》（文化艺术出版社，2007年）、《梦断三国》（中国国际广播出版社，2008年）、《柔然帝国 （西向天狼丛书）》（中国国际广播出版社，2009年），译著《哥特史（汉译世界学术名著丛书）》（商务印书馆，2012年）等。