Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court explores how the royal hunt, polo matches, archery contests, equestrian demonstrations, and the imperial menagerie were represented in poetry, prose, and portraiture. This stu...(展开全部)

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court explores how the royal hunt, polo matches, archery contests, equestrian demonstrations, and the imperial menagerie were represented in poetry, prose, and portraiture. This stu...(展开全部)

Kim Stanley Robinson has been an ongoing force in the Science Fiction genre for over twenty years, with his novels (Year's of Rice and Salt, Forty Signs of Rain) crossing over to the mainstream, and routinely appearing on the New York Times best sellers list. During the 80s and early nineties, his short fiction continued to push the boundaries of science fiction, defining the s...(展开全部)

金·斯坦利·罗宾逊是近代最为杰出的科幻作家之一，代表作为“火星”三部曲、“海岸”三部曲、《米与盐的年代》等。 金·斯坦利·罗宾逊于1952年出生于美国伊利诺伊州，后与父母迁至橙郡度过童年时代。他主攻语言及文学，于1975年获得波士顿大学英语文学硕士学位，又于1982年获得加州大学圣迭戈分校英文博士学位。 罗宾逊自二十世纪七十年代开始写作，如今已出版长篇作品十八部，短篇故事更是无数，被纽约时报誉为“最伟大的科幻作家之一“。他的作品向来以文笔优美、细节丰富见长。得益于深厚的文学功底及丰富的知识储备，他笔下人物栩栩如生，无论何种场景、事物、习俗，他都仿佛自己亲历过一般，写得无比真实、确切，令人叹为观止。

The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson is a collection of short stories written by Robinson that was published, in hardcover, in July 2010. The publisher is Night Shade Books. It contains 23 stories, including award-winning "The Blind Geometer" and "Black Air", and the previously unpublished story "The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942". It is published by Night Shade Books....(展开全部)

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For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful, and more partisan, than the founding fathers ever intended—the Supreme Court. Much as we would like to believe that the Court remains aloof from ideological politics,...(展开全部)

From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court , he turns his eye to the U.S. Supreme Court, an institution that he believes ...(展开全部)

There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty...(展开全部)