“Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world.” — Bob Hoover, Pittsburg Post-Gazette “[Kaplan] helps the distant past resonate today. . . . [He] teaches lessons that are informative and concise.” – The Washington Post Book World “A writer of extraordinary intellect and pass...(展开全部)

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spanish and French for thousands of year, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 斯蒂文•朗西曼（Steven Runciman，1903~2000），英国著名历史学者，极具影响力的拜占庭史、中世纪史研究者。出身于贵族世家，精通多门语言。自剑桥三一学院毕业后，周游列国，于多所大学任教，1942年至1945年任伊斯坦布尔大学拜占庭艺术与历史学教授，其间出版了代表性作品三卷本的《十字军史》（A History of the Crusades）。此外还著有多部享有盛誉的作品，包括《拜占庭文明》（Byzantine Civilisation）、《西西里晚祷事件》（The Sicilian Vespers）和《君士坦丁堡的陷落》（The Fall of Constantinople）。 【译者简介】 谭琦，哈尔滨理工大学语言文学类硕士，专职翻译，醉心于探究与考证之乐。译有《大围攻：马耳他1565》。

【作者简介】 斯蒂文•朗西曼（Steven Runciman，1903~2000），英国著名历史学者，极具影响力的拜占庭史、中世纪史研究者。出身于贵族世家，精通多门语言。自剑桥三一学院毕业后，周游列国，于多所大学任教，1942年至1945年任伊斯坦布尔大学拜占庭艺术与历史学教授，其间出版了代表性作品三卷本的《十字军史》（A History of the Crusades）。此外还著有多部享有盛誉的作品，包括《拜占庭文明》（Byzantine Civilisation）、《西西里晚祷事件》（The Sicilian Vespers）和《君士坦丁堡的陷落》（The Fall of Constantinople）。 【译者简介】 谭琦，哈尔滨理工大学语言文学类硕士，专职翻译，醉心于探究与考证之乐。译有《大围攻：马耳他1565》。

Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. Following the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese in the thirteenth century, William II of Villehardouin built a great castle on a hill near Sparta that later came to be known as Mistra. Ten ye...(展开全部)

Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. Following the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese in the thirteenth century, William II of Villehardouin built a great castle on a hill near Sparta that later came to be known as Mistra. Ten ye...(展开全部)

"Books XXXI to XLV" cover the years from 201 B.C. to 167 B.C., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.

John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today's writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens and the Picturesque collects 11 of Hunt's essays - several of them never before published - that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have...(展开全部)

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ...(展开全部)

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ...(展开全部)