The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on y...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

作者简介： 亨利·卡门（Henry Kamen，1936— ），英国历史学家。曾在英国、美国和西班牙等地任教或讲学。他的著述颇丰，代表作有：《凤凰与火焰：加泰罗尼亚与反宗教改革》（1993年）、《西班牙宗教裁判所：一项基于史实的修正》（1998年）和《西班牙国王菲利普 五世：两度统治之王》（2001年）等。 译者简介： 吕浩俊，1985年生，武汉大学历史学院博士研究生。研究方向为宗教改革史，撰有《法国沦陷时期吕西安·费弗尔的文化“抗争”》、《中世纪至近代早期巴黎守护神问题探析》等，译有《黎塞留的三种面相：一项历史编纂学的考察》（约瑟夫·伯金著）、《罗贝尔伯爵的“宠物”狼：中世纪欧洲贵族与农民的关系问题透视》（威廉·切斯特·乔丹著）等。

Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps, a husband prowls the Internet, obsessed with female serial killers; a bureaucrat tries...(展开全部)

More than a history of Greek science, this fascinating book by an eminent science historian also provides a lucid account of ancient and early Greek cultures. Remarkably readable, thoroughly documented, and well illustrated, it covers problems of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and biology.

During the seventeenth century, the Netherlands--a small country with just two million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources--enjoyed a "Golden Age" of economic success, world power, and tremendous artistic output. In this book North examines the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch society boasted Europe`s greatest number of cities and highest literacy rate, unusually large n...(展开全部)

More than a history of Greek science, this fascinating book by an eminent science historian also provides a lucid account of ancient and early Greek cultures. Remarkably readable, thoroughly documented, and well illustrated, it covers problems of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and biology.