Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides poured reinforcements in. By mid-November, the Germans had pu...(展开全部)

European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often partici...(展开全部)

The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

Visualization is the graphic presentation of data -- portrayals meant to reveal complex information at a glance. Think of the familiar map of the New York City subway system, or a diagram of the human brain. Successful visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understanding. ...(展开全部)

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely diffe...(展开全部)

作者簡介 塔米‧安薩里（Tamim Ansary，1948-） 塔米‧•安薩里生於阿富汗喀布爾，並且在當地接受中壆育直到移民美國奧勒岡州。他所著的回憶錄《喀布爾之西，紐約之東（West of Kabul， East of New York）》被選為舊金山2008年當年度的選書(ONE BOOK ONE CITY)，另外和阿富汗地雷爆炸的遇難者法拉•阿瑪迪（Farah Ahmadi）共同寫作了紐約時報暢銷書《另一邊的天空（The Other Side of the Sky）》。塔米姆•安薩里是一些小學歷史教科書的主要作者。他每個月都會為Encarta.com網站撰寫專欄文章，並且在San Francisco Chronicle，Salon，Alternet， TomPaine.com, Edutopia, Parade, L.A. Time等媒體...(展开全部)

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely diffe...(展开全部)

A broad monograph devoted to one of the preeminent names in contemporary Japanese photography. Moriyama's photography is provocative, both for the form it takes (Moriyama's photographs may be dirty, blurry, overexposed or scratched) and for its content. The viewer's experience of the photo--whether it captures a place, a person, a situation or an atmosphere--is the central thru...(展开全部)

A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, this is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.