'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life' Victoria Hislop We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences an...(展开全部)

We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today. Yet, as financial crises have convulsed Greece repeatedly since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation. This book sets out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms. How did Greece come to be so powerfully att...(展开全部)

We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we ...(展开全部)

Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's "The Scottish Nation: A Modern History" traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to today's debates on the possibilities of Scottish independence. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of ...(展开全部)

贝塔妮•休斯（Bettany Hughes） 屡获殊荣的历史学家、作家，英国ZUI具影响力的媒体BBC主持人，专长是古代及中世纪历史与文化。贝塔妮长年在牛津大学和剑桥大学任教，还曾在康奈尔大学、布里斯托大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校等地开设讲座，曾获颁萨金德教育奖、英国历史学会的梅德利科历史奖。她目前也在伦敦国王学院担任研究员和伦敦新人文学院的客座教授。贝塔妮的首部著作《特洛伊的海伦》（Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore）被译为十国语言，广受好评；第二部作品《毒堇之杯》（The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life）不但是《纽约时报》畅销书，还获得英国作家协会奖。此外，她也为英国广播公司、国家地理频道、Discovery、历史...(展开全部)

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist. When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creati...(展开全部)

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Br...(展开全部)

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.