Set out to a time in medieval England, rampant with violent clashes between the king and the clergy, where the wealthy abuse their power to discriminate against the poor. Out of such a system rooted in famine and poverty rises Robin Hood: a messiah for the poor. He helps restore justice, by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Prepare to witness an exciting journey with...(展开全部)

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

Drawing on thirty years of writing about Greek and Roman history, Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage, and why it still matters. Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books.I...(展开全部)

📕 著者简介 📕 玛丽·比尔德( Mary Beard)，英国著名古典学家，剑桥大学古典学教授，由于她对古典文明研究做出的长期贡献，2018年受封爵士。她长期担任《泰晤士报文学增刊》的古典学编辑，她的博客“一个剑桥教授的生活”广受欢迎，并与英国广播公司合作拍摄了多部与古罗马和古代文明相关的纪录片。主要著作：《罗马元老院与人民：一部古罗马史》《女性与权力：一份宣言》《庞贝：一座罗马城市的生与死》。其中《庞贝》一书荣获2009年沃尔夫森历史奖。 📔 译者简介 📔 汪蘅，自由译者，北京大学英语系硕士，译著包括《美国创世记》、《缅因一年记》(待出）、《思想的革命》(合译；待出）等。

📕 著者简介 📕 玛丽·比尔德( Mary Beard)，英国著名古典学家，剑桥大学古典学教授，由于她对古典文明研究做出的长期贡献，2018年受封爵士。她长期担任《泰晤士报文学增刊》的古典学编辑，她的博客“一个剑桥教授的生活”广受欢迎，并与英国广播公司合作拍摄了多部与古罗马和古代文明相关的纪录片。主要著作：《罗马元老院与人民：一部古罗马史》《女性与权力：一份宣言》《庞贝：一座罗马城市的生与死》。其中《庞贝》一书荣获2009年沃尔夫森历史奖。 📔 译者简介 📔 汪蘅，自由译者，北京大学英语系硕士，译著包括《美国创世记》、《缅因一年记》(待出）、《思想的革命》(合译；待出）等。

In a series of sparkling essays, Mary Beard explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often ...(展开全部)

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the...(展开全部)

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the...(展开全部)