Endless sunshine, endless beaches, wildlife like you've never seen it - and a boomtown city perched on the edge of a vast desert. Western Australia is best done slowly, so set the speedometer to 'snail' and drink it in. This revised edition focuses on the must-visit destinations, including Margaret River and the Southwest Coast and includes a new "Travel with Children" chapte...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

被称为业界传奇LoneIy Planet出版公司的创始人托尼．惠勒和莫琳·惠勒已经出版了很多的旅行指南，这些指南覆盖了这个星球的每一个国家。 Lonely Planet创立于1973年，当时惠勒夫妇自己动手出版了一本非常独特的旅游指南：《便宜走亚洲》。之后他们又出版了《鞋带上的东南亚》，这本书很快被人们称为背包客的“圣经”。当时他们勇敢地踏入了别的旅游出版商未曾涉足的市场，他们专为一个新兴的自助旅行人群服务，而这些人群的出现要远远早于大众旅游市场的兴起。

伯特兰·罗素(1872—1970)，英国著名的哲学家、数学家、文学家和社会活动家，先后执教于剑桥大学、哈佛大学、芝加哥大学、加州大学等世界知名高等学府，是20世纪西方社会最著名且拥有最广泛读者的思想大师，被称为“世纪的智者”。爱因斯坦曾说：“阅读罗素的作品，是我一生中最快乐的时光之一。”60年代罗素曾将他的巨著《西方哲学史》一书寄赠给中国伟人毛泽东，而《西方的智慧》正是在此基础上勾勒新意，笔耕而成。

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

利迪娅•若热（Lídia Jorge，1946— ），葡萄牙当代最重要的作家之一，其作品代表了近代葡萄牙语写作风格，即所谓的“后革命一代”，斩获国内外奖项无数，赢得了国际认可，包括欧洲年度作家（2000）、法国艺术与文学勋章（2005）、拉丁语联盟国际奖（2011）、西 葡艺术文化奖（2014）、FIL罗曼语文学奖（2020）、葡萄牙作家协会编年史和文学散文大奖（2021）等。 吕婷婷，北京大学外国语学院世文所在读研究生。本科毕业于北京大学外国语学院西葡语系，主要研究方向为非洲葡语文学、女性主义文学，曾参与翻译《马查多·德·阿西斯小说集》《中国日记——一个巴西人眼中的真实中国》。

The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely...(展开全部)

The workings of Western intelligence in our day—whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church—are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four “cultures” so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religi...(展开全部)

John W. O'malley是韦斯顿耶稣会士人文学院杰出的文化史教授