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.

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)

Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry strongly influenced by Jewish filmmakers who made and continue to make the decisions as to which fi...(展开全部)

埃里克•高德曼，美国叶史瓦大学、美国犹太神学院（纽约）电影专业客座教授。作为一名电影学者，高德曼教授对意第绪电影、以色列电影和犹太电影都颇有研究。此外，他还是埃尔格传媒公司（专门发行犹太电影的知名影视公司）的创建者和董事长，并曾经担任犹太媒体中心的负责人。著有《视线、影像、梦想：意第绪电影的前世今生》一书。

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)

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)

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)