St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on t he western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the s...(展开全部)

作者介绍 彼得·马伦，英国自然作家、记者和自然保护主义者，作品多达二十余部。他的其他著作包括获得自然历史发展学会颁发的撒克里奖章的《新博物学家》（The New Naturalists）、获得英伦诸岛植物学会颁发的主席奖的《英国罕见的花》（Britain’s Rare Flowers），以及柯林斯新博物学家系列当中的《野生森林》（The Wild Woods）。他还是利弗休姆研究奖学金的享有者，并两次荣获自然世界图书奖、一次荣获苏格兰圣安德鲁十字奖。现居住在威尔特郡。 译者介绍 罗心宇，毕业于中国农业大学的不正经昆虫学博士，研究一类叫“木虱”的没人听说过的昆虫。喜欢抓虫、拍花和在大自然里泡着，翻译及写作什么的，完全是靠天赋。

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...(展开全部)

"The most important... Russian novel of the 20th century." -"The New York Times Book Review" Considered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, "Petersburg," is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside "Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, " and "In Search of Lost Time," that captures Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905...(展开全部)

Here is the long-awaited, authoritative, unabridged translation of Petersburg, the Chef d'oeuvre of Symbolist writer Andrei Bely. Nabokov has ranked Petersburg beside Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Proust's la recherche du temps perdu as one of the four great works of prose fiction of the twentieth century.

In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the...(展开全部)

Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later th...(展开全部)

彼得·鲍德温 (Peter Baldwin)，加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学教授，纽约大学全球杰出教授(Global Distinguished Professor)。 译者 王志刚，男，中国海洋大学文学与新闻传播学院教授，博士生导师。武汉大学管理学博士，深圳报业集团与复旦大学新闻传播学博士后流动站联合培养传播学博士后，英国南安普顿索伦特大学访问学者。

Today’s copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute betw...(展开全部)

How did a piece of wood lead investigators in the Lindbergh kidnapping case to Bruno Hauptmann? Who, besides O. J. Simpson, knows something about the death of his ex-wife? And just who was the "Vampire of Dusseldorf"? These are just some of the questions Mark Benecke explores in this compelling and surprising history of criminal investigative methods and techniques. Benecke, a ...(展开全部)