There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 约翰·朱利叶斯·诺威奇（John Julius Norwich,1929—2018），英国历史学家，毕业于牛津大学，曾任世界文化遗产基金会联合主席。诺威奇一生著述颇丰，包括《四君主》（Four Princes）、《地中海史》（The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean）、《教皇史》（The Popes: A History）、《威尼斯史》（A History of Venice）等。 ◎译者简介 李强，毕业于东北师范大学、希腊约阿尼纳大学，现任东北师范大学副教授，主要研究拜占庭文献学、法律、钱币、印章、外交等领域。

In this highly original novel Slauerhoff (1898-1936) reprises major themes from his poetry (erotic obsession, nomadism, persecution and confused identity) within a more ambitious formal framework. The book interweaves three narratives, separated in time but linked by a common association with the 'forbidden kingdom' of China. The first of these is the brutal and bloody founding...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

- One of American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014 While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guar...(展开全部)

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from the hungry appetites of their own partners. And male blanket octopuses employ ...(展开全部)

The Kingdom of this World (Spanish: El Reino de este Mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, first published in 1949. It tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution. It is an important work in the development of magical realism.

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics a...(展开全部)