【加拿大】史蒂芬•埃里克森 加拿大当代著名奇幻作家，毕业于爱荷华作家工作室，此前曾系统学习过考古学及人类学。《玛拉兹英灵录》是他最为重要的作品，刻画了一个庞大而复杂的世界，人类、不朽者与神祇共存其中，彼此争斗。《月之花园》是系列的第一部。正是这本书，奠定了埃里克森在奇幻小说界的地位。

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre m...(展开全部)

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners,...(展开全部)

There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and...(展开全部)

Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis - whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion...(展开全部)

Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet in the vast library of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means - on the ecology of garden as idea, place, and action. The Meaning of Gardens maps out how the garden is perceived, designed, used, and valued. Essays from a variety of disciplines are organized around six metaphors special to our tim...(展开全部)

There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and...(展开全部)

喜龙仁(Osvald Sirén，1879—1966)：20 世纪西方极为重要的中国美术史专家，曾担任瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学艺术史教授、瑞典国家博物馆绘画与雕塑部主任馆员等职，首届查尔斯•兰•弗利尔奖章获得者。1916 年起，相继赴美国耶鲁大学、哈佛大学和日本名校讲学。1920 年起六次来华，并深深爱上了东方艺术。对中国古代建筑、雕塑、绘画艺术研究极深，代表作有《北京的城墙和城门》（1924）、《中国雕塑》（1925）、《中国北京皇城写真全图》（1926）、《中国早期艺术史》（1929）、《中国园林》（1949）等。 赵省伟：厦门大学历史系毕业，目前关注于中国历史影像的收藏和出版，藏有海量中国主题的法国、德国报纸和书籍。编有《遗失在西方的中国史：法国彩色画报记录的中国1850—1937》《西洋镜》系列等书。 邱丽媛：北京大学中文系毕业，现任教于北京华文学...(展开全部)

The first plant enthusiasts to reach China found a wonderful array of unfamiliar garden plants that had been nurtured by Chinese gardeners for thousands of years. This is the story of the struggles, the daring and the dogged perseverance of those early collectors. Where would we be without magnolias, camellias, chrysanthemums, tree peonies, repeat-flowering roses, viburnums and...(展开全部)