In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incred...(展开全部)

Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryp...(展开全部)

In this superbly illustrated volume, distinguished Egyptologist Zahi Hawass guides you through the architectural landscape of ancient Egypt. From houses and palaces, to the temples of the gods, to the tombs, hundreds of photographs and a compelling text unveil the mysteries of ancient Egypt as unearthed through major excavations. As it leads you on a tour of important sites—th...(展开全部)

The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settled, spread and created a rich, vivid...(展开全部)

英国埃及学家、历史学家、考古学家约翰·罗默根据自己半个多世纪的学术研究和实地考察经历，基于曾被弃之一旁的证据，以及近二十年来的全新考古发现成果，撰写了一套三卷本古埃及史作品，重新构建了我们对世界上已知最早文明之一的理解。

Tracing the temples of ancient Egypt from their origins through their decline and to their modern-day study, this book is both an authoritative reference and an entertaining collection of "factfiles, " photographs, plans, and specially commissioned perspective views. 500 illustrations, 150 in color.

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the past Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaon...(展开全部)

作者簡介 約翰‧歐康奈（John O’Connell） 自幼靠著番茄肉醬義大利麵和冷凍電視餐維生，直到1990年代搬到倫敦，才真正在美食天堂開了眼界，發現形形色色的食物，並且鼓勇嚐試，此後一發不可收拾，展開對香料和美食的終生追尋。他在文化娛樂活動預告雜誌《出遊時光》（Time Out）工作多年，並說服主編讓他買了一頭牛來，在每週專欄撰寫循序烹飪整頭牛的記錄。他著有I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria和小說The Baskerville Legacy，並定期為《泰晤士報》和《衛報》撰稿。現居倫敦南區，最愛的香料是孜然。 譯者簡介 莊安祺 台大外文系畢業，印地安那大學英美文學碩士，譯有《西藏的故事》、《托爾金傳》、《翁山蘇姬》、《創作者的日常生活》等書。

Einstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as "spooky action at a distance" the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could nonetheless influence each other's properties--a hypothetical phenomenon his fellow theorist Erwin Schr...(展开全部)

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while giving weight to the characteristics of each country. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" to connect leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is a tapestry from which...(展开全部)