World War Two left two compelling, indelible images that colored the decades to come: the immense force of the Soviet Union's Red Army and the horrific devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. For the next half-century, the great powers prepared themselves for another, deadlier international conflagration...one that never happened. Politicians and strate...(展开全部)

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)

A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poets of antiquity to contemporary writers of science fiction, from the authors of the Holy Scriptures to modern raconteurs of fairy tales, writers and storytellers through the ages have invented imaginary and mythical lands, pro...(展开全部)

安伯托‧艾可（Umberto Eco） 1932-2016，出生於義大利皮德蒙的亞歷山卓，曾任波隆那大學高等人文科學學院教授與院長。身兼哲學家、歷史學家、文學評論家和美學家等多種身分，更是全球最知名的記號語言學權威。其學術研究範圍廣泛，從聖托瑪斯‧阿奎那到詹姆士‧喬埃斯，個人藏書甚至超過3萬冊，知識極為淵博。 已發表過十餘本重要的學術著作，其中最著名的是美學研究《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》和《無盡的名單》等。 另有著作為《玫瑰的名字》、《傅科擺》、《昨日之島》、《波多里諾》、《羅安娜女王的神秘火焰》、《倒退的年代：跟著大師艾可看世界》、《別想擺脫書》、《艾可談文學》、《艾可說故事》、《帶著鮭魚去旅行》、《誤讀》、《智慧女神的魔法袋》、《康德與鴨嘴獸》、《意外之喜：語言與瘋狂》、《植物的記憶與藏書樂》等雜文、隨筆、評論集和繪本。 譯者：林潔盈 國立台灣大...(展开全部)

What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancro...(展开全部)

作者：文安立（Odd Arne Westad） 挪威歷史學家，現居美國康乃迪克州紐黑文，主要研究冷戰史和當代東亞史。現為耶魯大學歷史和全球事務伊利胡（Elihu）講座教授。 代表作包括《躁動的帝國：從清帝國的普世主義，到中國的民族主義，一部250年的中國對外關係史》（Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750）、《緩和的衰落：卡特時代下的美國—蘇維埃關係》（The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years）、《決定性交會：中國內戰1945-1950》（Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950）、《全球冷戰：對第三世界的干預與我們時代的形成》（T...(展开全部)