This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatme...(展开全部)

In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor and limited global influence; by the book's end, Hadrian was set to p...(展开全部)

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. This work of interpretive history examines this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Syria, conveying the sweep of history as well as the diversity of peoples, religions and languages t...(展开全部)

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fifteenth century Europe was a driving world force, but the origins of its success have until now remained obscured in prehistory. In ...(展开全部)

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims' ultimate...(展开全部)

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims' ultimate...(展开全部)

作者简介： 彼得·L.斯托克(Peter L.Storck)， 威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校人类学博士，专业为环境考古学。皇家安大略博物馆人类学系荣休高级馆长。著有《重返冰河时代》《费希尔遗址》等。 译者简介： 陈虹，浙江大学文物与博物馆学系教授博士生导师，加拿大皇家安大略博物馆访问学者，主要研究方向为旧石器考古、考古痕迹学研究（玉石器），出版专著《鉴微寻踪：旧石器时代石英岩石制品的微痕与功能研究》《微研大义：石器微痕研究与思考》等。 刘吉颖，先后在浙江大学获得考古学学士、硕士和博士学位，2022年10月加入北京师范大学历史学院从事博士后工作，研究方向为旧石器考古、近东考古和科技考古（微痕分析）。 陈冉，先后获得浙江大学学士、美国斯坦福大学硕士学位，目前为美国亚利桑那大学人类学系博士生。主要研究方向为石制品分析、微痕分析、微植物残留物分析。

作者简介： 彼得·L.斯托克(Peter L.Storck)， 威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校人类学博士，专业为环境考古学。皇家安大略博物馆人类学系荣休高级馆长。著有《重返冰河时代》《费希尔遗址》等。 译者简介： 陈虹，浙江大学文物与博物馆学系教授博士生导师，加拿大皇家安大略博物馆访问学者，主要研究方向为旧石器考古、考古痕迹学研究（玉石器），出版专著《鉴微寻踪：旧石器时代石英岩石制品的微痕与功能研究》《微研大义：石器微痕研究与思考》等。 刘吉颖，先后在浙江大学获得考古学学士、硕士和博士学位，2022年10月加入北京师范大学历史学院从事博士后工作，研究方向为旧石器考古、近东考古和科技考古（微痕分析）。 陈冉，先后获得浙江大学学士、美国斯坦福大学硕士学位，目前为美国亚利桑那大学人类学系博士生。主要研究方向为石制品分析、微痕分析、微植物残留物分析。