A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: the ...(展开全部)

奥尔罕·帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk, 1952- ），当代欧洲最杰出的小说家之一，享誉国际的土耳其文学巨擘。出生于伊斯坦布尔，曾在伊斯坦布尔科技技大学主修建筑。2006年获诺贝文学奖，作品已经被译为40多种语言出版。

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: the ...(展开全部)

奥尔罕·帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk, 1952- ），当代欧洲最杰出的小说家之一，享誉国际的土耳其文学巨擘。出生于伊斯坦布尔，曾在伊斯坦布尔科技技大学主修建筑。2006年获诺贝文学奖，作品已经被译为40多种语言出版。

Studies of early-modern Islamic cities have stressed the atypical or the idiosyncratic. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that they were in some way substandard or deviant. The first purpose of this volume is to normalize Ottoman cities, to demonstrate how, on the one hand, they resembled cities generally and how, on the other, their specific histories ind...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

In Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to...(展开全部)

In Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to...(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)