The skull is one of the most recognizable symbols of today's contemporary visual culture. Since its 1970 s renaissance in the iconic album designs of bands such as the Grateful Dead, the skull has found its way into the visual vocabulary of urban life, adorning T-Shirts, badges and rock memorabilia as the ultimate symbol of anarchy and rebellion. Repurposed and recast by artist...(展开全部)

The skull is one of the most recognizable symbols of today's contemporary visual culture. Since its 1970 s renaissance in the iconic album designs of bands such as the Grateful Dead, the skull has found its way into the visual vocabulary of urban life, adorning T-Shirts, badges and rock memorabilia as the ultimate symbol of anarchy and rebellion. Repurposed and recast by artist...(展开全部)

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, Shugun is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled ...(展开全部)

A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power...

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled f...(展开全部)

Simon Winchester, from the introduction to Skulls: "Skulls tells the story of the skull, in both the human and the animal world. Skulls-human in the main, but by no means exclusively-have exerted for scores of thousands of years an almost inexplicable power over the human imagination. They are symbols both of existence and of former existence; they are freighted with terror and...(展开全部)

Simon Winchester, from the introduction to Skulls: "Skulls tells the story of the skull, in both the human and the animal world. Skulls-human in the main, but by no means exclusively-have exerted for scores of thousands of years an almost inexplicable power over the human imagination. They are symbols both of existence and of former existence; they are freighted with terror and...(展开全部)

亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow） 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学历史系副教授。日本新潟大学东亚研究专业硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学日本历史专业博士，专门研究近代早期亚洲历史，涉及东亚和东南亚地区的思想文化与商品的跨国流通，特别关注荷兰东印度公司的早期历史及其与亚洲各地区的互动。在《世界历史杂志》《日本文化志丛》等颇具影响力的期刊上发表众多主题的文章。本书是他的第一本著作，荣获杰里·本特利世界史奖（Jerry Bentley Prize）、欧洲扩展与全球互动论坛2015年图书奖（Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize）、澳大利亚历史协会颁发的W. K. 汉考克奖（W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Asso...(展开全部)

亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow） 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学历史系副教授。日本新潟大学东亚研究专业硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学日本历史专业博士，专门研究近代早期亚洲历史，涉及东亚和东南亚地区的思想文化与商品的跨国流通，特别关注荷兰东印度公司的早期历史及其与亚洲各地区的互动。在《世界历史杂志》《日本文化志丛》等颇具影响力的期刊上发表众多主题的文章。本书是他的第一本著作，荣获杰里·本特利世界史奖（Jerry Bentley Prize）、欧洲扩展与全球互动论坛2015年图书奖（Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize）、澳大利亚历史协会颁发的W. K. 汉考克奖（W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Asso...(展开全部)