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 is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflex...(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)

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)

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。

Book Description Anatolia, AD 260. The city of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs after the Persian siege by the troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But no negotiations are initiated, no peace sanctioned. The meeting is a trap and Valerian ends up in enemy hands, along with the commander of h...(展开全部)

查默斯.约翰逊是美国对日政策研究所所长、加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校荣誉退休教授，也是《洛杉矶时报》和《国家》周刊经常性的撰稿人。他此前的著作包括《通产省与日本的奇迹》、《日本：谁统治》和不久前出版的、在美国引起不小反响的《后焰》。

查默斯.约翰逊是美国对日政策研究所所长、加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校荣誉退休教授，也是《洛杉矶时报》和《国家》周刊经常性的撰稿人。他此前的著作包括《通产省与日本的奇迹》、《日本：谁统治》和不久前出版的、在美国引起不小反响的《后焰》。

查默斯.约翰逊是美国对日政策研究所所长、加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校荣誉退休教授，也是《洛杉矶时报》和《国家》周刊经常性的撰稿人。他此前的著作包括《通产省与日本的奇迹》、《日本：谁统治》和不久前出版的、在美国引起不小反响的《后焰》。