These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and wou...(展开全部)

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted ...(展开全部)

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted ...(展开全部)

These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and wou...(展开全部)

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women – engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers – all employees of the international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Told on a sweeping scale reminiscent of classic American adventure films, this...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen, and conceptions of archives were as diverse as those who used them. The com...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen, and conceptions of archives were as diverse as those who used them. The com...(展开全部)

维克多·蒙特霍是一名杰出的萨波特克-玛雅/危地马拉人类学家、作家，现任加利福尼亚大学美洲原住民研究学院教授。在长期旅居外地之后，他曾回到危地马拉，为争取原住民的权利而斗争。他还著有另外一部作品：《素色之花：玛雅公主》，该书由地木（Groundwood）出版社出版。维克多·蒙特霍现居住于加利福尼亚戴维斯分校。 路易斯·加雷，著名的尼加拉瓜插画家。为了绘制本书中的插图，他专门前往危地马拉，做了六个月时间的研究。他还为《玉与铁》、《手中之种》、《表兄弟》和《飞回家的阿尔弗雷迪托》等书绘制过插图。路易斯·加雷是拉丁美洲目前活跃的最优秀的年轻插画家之一，现居住于墨西哥。

Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king's fierce warrior and protector. Birth of the Chess Queen examines the ...(展开全部)

[英]斯图尔特•埃尔登，英国华威大学政治理论和地理学教授，撰写出版了《恐怖和领土：主权的空间界限 》等多部关于地理学和政治学的作品。