作者简介 查尔斯 ‧奥曼，英国著名军事史学家，皇家历史协会主席，牛津大学“奇切历”现代史教授，皇家考古研究所所长，皇家钱币学协会奖章得主。他的著作改变了人们对中世纪战争的理解，完善并改正了中世纪史料中碎片化的军事史及其种种谬误。一般认为，他通过中世纪残破的文献，重新构建起了中世纪战场的蓝图。其研究成果在欧洲军事史上有着重要的地位。 译者简介 齐建晓，副教授，河南师范大学外国语学院翻译硕士导师，研究方向为英汉翻译理论与实践、计算机辅助翻译。科研方面，出版专著、教材、译著共五部，在《西安外国学大学学报》《河南师范大学学报》《新闻与写作》等国内核心刊物上发表了十余篇翻译与外语教学方面的论文，主持和参与省部级以上科研项目八项。

A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and ...(展开全部)

Sybel, the beautiful great-granddaughter of the wizard Heald, has grown up on Eld Mountain with only the fantastic beasts summoned there by wizardry as companions. She cares nothing for humans until, when she is sixteen, a baby is brought for her to raise, a baby who awakens emotions that she has never known before. He is Tamlorn, the only son of King Drede, and, inevitably, Sy...(展开全部)

作者簡介 派翠西亞‧麥奇莉普（Patricia Anne McKillip, 1948.2.29-）生於美國奧瑞岡州西冷市，於加州聖荷西州立大學獲得英國文學碩士學位。碩士畢業後成為專職作家，尤以奇幻小說知名%%，著有多本奇幻長篇小說，包括The Book of Atrix Wolfe、Winter Rose、Song for the Basilisk等書。此外，亦寫作成人與青少年小說。 1975年以《女巫與幻獸》獲得世界奇幻獎、1994年《豐饒與陌異》獲創神奇幻文學獎（Mythopoeic Award）、《風中豎琴手》入圍雨果獎、《冬日玫瑰》入圍星雲獎。現居奧瑞岡州。 譯者簡介 陳敬旻，紐約州立大學戲劇所碩士。曾任出版社編輯，目前專職編譯撰稿，譯著有莎士比亞故事集等十六部。對戲劇、舞蹈、文學、音樂懷有不變的熱情。

D.E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hunga...(展开全部)

The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hunga...(展开全部)