In the bestselling tradition of Steven Pressfield, Bernard Cornwell, and Conn Iggulden, a blockbuster set in gladiatorial Rome Already a bestseller in the U.K., "Fire in the East" is the first gripping installment in an immense grand narrativeathe Warrior of Rome series. In this awell-constructed, well-paced and gripping accounta (Times Literary Supplement) Harry Sidebottom co...(展开全部)

The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up crumbling ...(展开全部)

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam-into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals More... and monks -and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authori...(展开全部)

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. In these stories, reminiscent o...(展开全部)

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. In these stories, reminiscent o...(展开全部)

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

作者简介： 本杰明·亨利·艾萨克，(Benjamin Henri Isaac)(1945.5.10 -)，特拉维夫大学古代史教授，以色列科学与人文学院成员，美国哲学学会会员。 艾萨克的研究范围涵盖了公元前6世纪至公元7世纪这一阶段。主要研究对象为古希腊史、古罗马史，以及公元前2世纪 以降的犹太史。此外他还参与了对犹太/巴勒斯坦行省的古罗马道路的测绘，以及为该地区各主要语言的古代碑文建立语料库的工作。 译者简介： 欧阳旭东，毕业于北京航空航天大学外语系，现任深圳大学外国语学院英语语言文学副教授，专业领域为英语语言文化。现已编写出版了多本英语教材，并译有数本学术著作，如传播学专著《公关造势与技巧》，古典学专著《德摩斯提尼时代的雅典民主：结构、原则与意识形态》、《想象中的希腊：神话的多重语境》等。