There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)

佩里·安德森（PERRY ANDERSON），英国历史学家、社会学家，1938年生于伦敦，现任美国加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校历史与社会学教授，英国《新左派评论》期刊负责人。《从古代封建主义的过渡》及其续作《绝对主义国家的系谱》出版于1974年（伦敦新左派丛书）是在西方历史学、历史社会学与马克思主义学理论领域有重大影响的生要著作。

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes take...(展开全部)

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

吉莉安•莱利，英国当代著名美食作家，知名食物史研究者，意大利美食的忠实拥趸。毕业于剑桥大学历史专业的她，某次去意大利公干时，却不可救药地爱上了当地美食，并从此矢志不渝。她已出版了多部关于美食和饮食文化史的著作。

这是韩国电影史上第一本关于韩国电影史的著作，由多位影评人、电影史学家、电影学者撰写而成，由韩国电影振兴委员会编辑出版。当时被称为韩国电影史上的一大盛事。此书同时出版了韩文版和英文版（可在韩国电影振兴委员会的主页上观看英文版pdf部分内容：http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/KOFIC/Channel?task=kofic.user.eng.d_publication.command.PublicationRetrieve1Cmd&Gesipan_SCD=000000000000000004）。中文版权被上海译文出版社买下，由韩国电影专家小韩（http://xiaohan0221.blog.sohu.com/）担任翻译，预计2010年出版。

Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industri...(展开全部)

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism,...(展开全部)

Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the turn of the millennium, Central Asia became the Turkish center of rule. After the Turkish expansion, ...(展开全部)