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)

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)

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.

理查德•布劳提根（Richard Brautigan，1935—1984），1935年1月生于华盛顿州塔科马市，幼年随生母和继父辗转多地，1944年定居俄勒冈州尤金市。高中毕业后因向警察局窗户投掷石块被捕，后被确诊为偏执型精神分裂和抑郁症入院治疗。1956年出院后前往旧金山，并在那里度过一生大部分时间，1984年在旧金山家中自杀身亡。他最初以写诗步入文坛，曾先后出版诗集《搭顺风车的加利利人》《摆上大理石的茶》《避孕药与春山矿难》等。20世纪六十年代，随着其三部小说《从大苏尔来的邦联将军》（1964）、《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）、《在西瓜糖里》（1968）的相继出版，布劳提根的文学事业迎来高峰期，他由此成为美国20世纪六七十年代的文学偶像，并在世界范围内获得巨大声誉。 译者简介：王伟庆（笔名少况），毕业于北京外国语大学。上世纪九十年代翻译出版了唐纳德...(展开全部)

布洛赫（Ernst Bloch 1885—1977）,德国著名哲学家。是第二次世界大战后德国最有独创性的马克思主义哲学家和对马克思主义传统作出创新的人物。布洛赫著作是具有包罗万象性质的形而上学体系。在哲学的贫乏时代，布洛赫通过一系列伟大著作使形而上学重新成为真理与现实。

Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the bible. In recent years religious faith has come under much scrutiny from secular progressives. Fear of a rise in Islamic and Christian fundamentalism has prompted numerous attacks on the belief in God which make no attempt to understand its source. In this long unavailable book, Ernst Bloch provides an original historical ...(展开全部)

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(展开全部)

西敏司（Sidney W. Mintz），约翰·霍普金斯大学人类学教授，曾获颁多项人类学教育和研究奖项，开启了将资本主义经济作为一种文化来研究的治学先河，被誉为“饮食人类学之父”，代表作《甜与权利》《饮食人类学》。

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(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)