在线阅读本书 Book Description Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: LUCIA, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...GRACIELLA, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...MEGAN, the orphan seeki...(展开全部)

Sixty-two years after human life on Earth was annihilated by rampaging alien invaders, the enigmatic Messenger O is sent back in time with a mission to unite humanity of past eras - during the Second World War and ancient Japan, and even back to the dawn of the species itself - to defeat the invasion before it begins. However, in a future shredded by war and genocide, love wait...(展开全部)

The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most splendid, powerful and long lasting of the great historical cultures. But our knowledge of it is all too often confined to a few masterpieces of early Persian art and the Persians' role of Goliath to the Greeks' David. The Heritage of Persia is based on a firsthand study of the sources archaeological, documentary and linguis...(展开全部)

The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most splendid, powerful and long lasting of the great historical cultures. But our knowledge of it is all too often confined to a few masterpieces of early Persian art and the Persians' role of Goliath to the Greeks' David. The Heritage of Persia is based on a firsthand study of the sources archaeological, documentary and linguis...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

Review "Mechner's journals are a unique record from the birth of an industry, in the words of one of its pioneers--and if that's all they were, they would be invaluable. But The Making of Prince of Persia is also an unvarnished window into the creative process, with all its excitement, toil, setbacks, doubts and triumphs. A fantastic read." --D.B. Weiss, writer and co-creator o...(展开全部)

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is findin...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.