约书亚·哈默（Joshua Hammer），美国知名记者。1988年加入《新闻周刊》，先后在五大洲不同城市担任该杂志的分社社长，并长期为《GQ》《纽约客》《纽约时报》《国家地理》《大西洋月刊》等媒体撰稿，曾获包括美国国家杂志奖在内的多项新闻业大奖。从20世纪90年代起，哈默就开始 关注马里战乱，多次前往廷巴克图、巴马科等地采访，被誉为“对马里恐怖主义报道最深入的记者”。

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manu...(展开全部)

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Famous Manuscripts - The fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. From "The Book of Kells" to Boccaccio's "Decameron" and from the "Vienna Genesis" to Dante's "Divine Comedy" - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to th...(展开全部)

作者簡介 查理‧英格利許（Charlie English） 英國皇家地理學會研究員、《衛報》前國際新聞組組長。十九歲時首次前往非洲旅遊，做了既深而廣的探索，之後遊歷世界各國，經驗豐富。文章常見於各大報。 為了撰寫廷巴克圖的故事，他在得知手抄本並未被毀的消息後，辭去了《衛報》的工作。 譯者簡介 蔡耀緯 臺灣大學歷史學研究所碩士，現為自由譯者。譯有《1921穿越福爾摩沙：一位英國作家的臺灣旅行》、《平凡的美德：分歧世界的道德秩序》、《大歷史：從宇宙大霹靂到今天的人類世界》（合譯）、《臺灣邊疆的治理與政治經濟（1600-1800）》（合譯）、《恐怖的總合》（合譯）等。

《索罗斯传》是罗伯特·斯莱特1996年版索罗斯传记的全面升级。其中增加了许多新内容，包括对索罗斯及其亲密伙伴的独家专访，深入挖掘在未来不稳定的、 变幻无常的信贷市场中的投资战略。书中描述了索罗斯的思想对2004年美国大选的作用，他在2006年《纽约时报》上对驻伊拉克美军最高指挥官裴卓斯中将 的抨击，以及他对慈善和政治活动的宏大计划。 作为世界上最成功的投资家，同时也是自由政治活动的代表人物，乔治·索罗斯是我们这个时代最吸引人、最具极端性的人物。他最初的声誉来自他非凡的投资才能，而最近十几年，索罗斯开始关注国际政治领域。 "A penniless survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary, George Soros is now one of the richest men in the world, ...(展开全部)

"An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition", is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct...(展开全部)

In this beautifully written book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness. Once we have these skills, we can slow our lives down and discover how to live in the moment - even simple acts like washing the dishes or drinking a cup of tea may be transformed into acts of meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle anecd...(展开全部)

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi , or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than ...(展开全部)

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS One of the Top 20 Books for Understanding China, China Economic Quarterly For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundb...(展开全部)

Chris Miller is assistant professor of international history at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and co-director of the school's Russia and Eurasia Program. He is also Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.