For the first time in Trade Paperback the massive, compelling book in which William Manchester brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that armed Germany in three major wars. Their cannon won the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. In 1871 they invented the first anti-aircraft gun to shoot down observation balloons. In WWI their mammoth weapons she...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the mur...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Orville PrescottThe New York TimesOne of the most important works of history of our time.^Hugh Trevor-RoperThe New York Times Book ReviewA splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions.^Theodore H. WhiteA monumental work, a grisly and thrilling story.^John GuntherOne of the most spectacular stories ever told.

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline. It then continues by forecasting the positions of China, Japan, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Soviet Union and the United...(展开全部)