比尔·波特，美国当代作家、翻译家和著名汉学家。他把中国古代大量的佛教典籍翻译成英文，在欧美引起了极大的反响。他曾经以“赤松”的笔名翻译出版了《寒山诗集》《石屋山居诗集》《菩提达摩禅法》等英文著作。从1972年起，他一直生活在中国台湾和香港地区，经常在中国大陆旅行，并写了大量介绍中国风土人文的作品，《空谷幽兰》是其中最著名的一本，它在欧美各国掀起了一股学习中国传统文化的热潮。

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nine...(展开全部)

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nine...(展开全部)

罗杰彭罗斯,著名广义相对论学家、宇宙学家斯蒂芬霍金的合作人。 1931年 罗杰·彭罗斯出生于英国埃塞克斯州的一个医生家庭。他的爸爸是著名的人类遗传学家莱昂内尔·彭罗斯，罗杰·彭罗斯先进入伦敦大学的附属中学，而后进入伦敦大学学院。 他在1957年 被授予剑桥大学博士学位。与他爸爸一起合作，设计出常人难以做出的几何图形。他的设计被荷兰艺术家艾斯丘（1898－1972）（因创立光学幻影而闻名）收入石版画中。 1964年 在美国奥斯丁的德克萨斯大学工作时，罗杰·彭罗斯开始提出一种观点，他在牛津大学工作时，继续发展了这一观点——即磁扭线理论的新的宇宙理论。他用复数公然反对物理学的一些主要定理。 1965年，他的以著名论文《引力坍塌和时空奇点》为代表的一系列论文，和著名数学物理学家斯蒂芬.霍金的工作一起创立了现代宇宙论的数学结构理论。 1966年 任伦敦大学Bi...(展开全部)

Completing the most comprehensive and authoritative study ever written of the Soviet-German war, John Erickson in this volume tells the vivid and compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans from Russian soil. Beginning with the destruction of the German Army at Stalingrad, he describes a campaign of almost unimaginable hardship and fighting that led to...(展开全部)

Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. Was there somewhere on Earth where, after death, mortal man could join the immortal Gods? Where was this place? By whom was it established? And does it still exist today? After years of painstaking research -- combining recent archaeological discoveries with ...(展开全部)

The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female age...(展开全部)

The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female age...(展开全部)

In 1933, Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. "The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural tre...(展开全部)

This is the first full-length history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10.The author recorded the history as it was taking place. He received updates and documents, attended the engineering meetings, witnessed the emer...(展开全部)