In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped o...(展开全部)

汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt），20世纪最伟大、最具原创性的思想家之一。她在马堡和弗莱堡大学攻读哲学、神学和古希腊语，后转至海德堡大学雅斯贝尔斯的门下，获哲学博士学位。1933年纳粹上台后流亡巴黎，1941年到了美国。自1954年开始，阿伦特在美国加利福尼亚大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学、社会研究新学院、纽约布鲁克林学院开办讲座，后担任过芝加哥大学教授、社会研究新学院教授。其主要著作有：《极权主义的起源》《人的条件》《精神生活》《康德哲学讲座》等。

汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt），20世纪最伟大、最具原创性的思想家之一。她在马堡和弗莱堡大学攻读哲学、神学和古希腊语，后转至海德堡大学雅斯贝尔斯的门下，获哲学博士学位。1933年纳粹上台后流亡巴黎，1941年到了美国。自1954年开始，阿伦特在美国加利福尼亚大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学、社会研究新学院、纽约布鲁克林学院开办讲座，后担任过芝加哥大学教授、社会研究新学院教授。其主要著作有：《极权主义的起源》《人的条件》《精神生活》《康德哲学讲座》等。

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the most influential sculptor of his age. Inventive and skilled, he virtually created the Baroque style. In his religious sculptures he excelled at capturing movement and extreme emotion, uniting figures with their setting to create a single conception of overwhelming intensity that expressed the fervour of Counter-Reformation Rome. Intensit...(展开全部)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the most influential sculptor of his age. Inventive and skilled, he virtually created the Baroque style. In his religious sculptures he excelled at capturing movement and extreme emotion, uniting figures with their setting to create a single conception of overwhelming intensity that expressed the fervour of Counter-Reformation Rome. Intensit...(展开全部)

The second volume of the definite five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth centure's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story,with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Imposor", where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twent...(展开全部)

The second volume of the definite five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth centure's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story,with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Imposor", where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twent...(展开全部)

In this fascinating book, Christine Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of a number of writers and philosophers, including the social and aesthetic philosophy of Walter Benjamin. The author examines Baudelaire's haunting image of the city and its profound effect on conceptions of modernity. She goes on to c...(展开全部)

Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy. The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied ...(展开全部)

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)