Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The New York Times Book Review “I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The New York Times Book Review “I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work ...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined t...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

钱乘旦，男，汉族，1949年生，江苏金坛人。 高中就读于江苏省四大名校之一的南京师范大学附属中学，1973年参加高考，考入南京大学英语系。1985年于南京大学历史系获博士学位后，曾赴哈佛大学和爱丁堡大学作博士后。现任北京大学历史系教授、博士生导师、国务院学位委员会历史学科组成员、国家社会科学基金专家评审组成员、教育部社会科学委员会委员、中国英国史研究会会长、英国皇家历史学会通讯会士，澳门大学历史学系学兼职教授等职。2003年11月曾与齐世荣教授一起向中央政治局第九次集体学习作《15世纪以来世界主要国家发展历史考察》的专题讲解。 学科专长及研究方向 英国史；世界史；现代化历史比较；西方文化史。 目前承当的科研项目 主持211项目“英国及英联邦国家现代化研究”，985项目“英国及发达国家现代化研究”，国家“十五”社科基金项目“帝国解体与当代资本主义”。

This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the ...(展开全部)

弗里茨•斯特恩（Fritz Stern，1926—2016），出生于德国的布雷斯劳（弗罗茨瓦夫，现属波兰），1938年移居美国。曾任哥伦比亚大学荣誉教授，在康奈尔大学、耶鲁大学、柏林自由大学和康斯坦茨大学任教，并于1993—1994年担任美国驻德国大使理查德·霍尔布鲁克（Richard Holbrooke）的高级顾问。专长为近现代欧洲史、德国史及犹太人史，致力于理解第三帝国如何兴起及其历史根源。着有《文化绝望的政治》《权力的责任》《非自由主义的失败——现代德国政治文化论文集》《爱因斯坦恩怨史》《我所认识的五个德国》《梦想与错觉：德国历史的戏剧》等。

曼弗瑞迪(Valerio Massimo Manfredi, 1946 ~ ) 古代世界的完美記述者 義大利的歷史學家、考古學家，也是新聞記者。他認為自己是「古代世界的記述者」，自1978年起，在各歐洲大學任教，最後落腳在米蘭大學教授正統考古學（Classical Archaeology）。他並在義大利及環地中海地區從事考古挖掘及科學探險，並經常出現在歐洲各電視台的考古及探險節目中。迄今他已出版了十三本小說，其中包括極為暢銷的亞歷山大三部曲，被翻譯成55個國家的36種語言，代表作《最後軍團》並被好萊塢拍成電影於2007年上映。 曼弗瑞迪曾說，他小說成功的祕密在找回人心最原初的夢想，以及對天地事物的好奇及尊重。生活單純、控制思緒、提昇心靈境界，尋找人與人之間的和諧能夠讓人更接近這個夢想。