In 1683, two empiresthe Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Viennacame face to face in the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. Both sides remained resolut...(展开全部)

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, a...(展开全部)

For more than six centuries, the strange and defiant Habsburg family ruled a polyglot empire sprawling from Audstria to the Adriatic Sea, from North Africa to Mexico. Researcher Andrew Wheatcroft shows how the dynasty's mystical vision and unsurpassed political acumen culminated in the culture that produced 20th-century giants such as Freud and Hitler. 16 pages of photographs.

This book tells the story of one of the most astonishing dramas in Europe’s history. In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris and Nap...(展开全部)

In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review ), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, in ...(展开全部)

洛丽·摩尔，1957年生于纽约州，毕业于康奈尔大学创意写作系，1983年凭第一部短篇小说集《自助》奠定其在美国文坛的声誉。之后她相继出版短篇小说集《就像生活》《美国鸟人》，以及长篇小说《字谜游戏》《谁将开办青蛙医院？》和《门在楼梯口》等。她的短篇小说《你也很丑》被约翰·厄普代克收入他主编的《二十世纪美国最佳短篇小说》。 洛丽·摩尔曾在威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校教授创意写作30年。2013年起开始在范德堡大学任教。此外她还在密歇根大学、普林斯顿大学等教授创意写作。 2006年，洛丽·摩尔被推选为美国艺术暨文学学会成员。 她最近的一部作品是出版于2014年的短篇小说集《树皮》。

洛丽·摩尔，1957年生于纽约州，毕业于康奈尔大学创意写作系，1983年凭第一部短篇小说集《自助》奠定其在美国文坛的声誉。之后她相继出版短篇小说集《就像生活》《美国鸟人》，以及长篇小说《字谜游戏》《谁将开办青蛙医院？》和《门在楼梯口》等。她的短篇小说《你也很丑》被约翰·厄普代克收入他主编的《二十世纪美国最佳短篇小说》。 洛丽·摩尔曾在威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校教授创意写作30年。2013年起开始在范德堡大学任教。此外她还在密歇根大学、普林斯顿大学等教授创意写作。 2006年，洛丽·摩尔被推选为美国艺术暨文学学会成员。 她最近的一部作品是出版于2014年的短篇小说集《树皮》。

From award-winning and bestselling author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin comes a gorgeously full-color illustrated story about a lion cub and a girl who must open a portal for the spirits, based on Chinese folklore. Jin is a Stone Lion—one of the guardians of the Old City Gate who is charged to watch over humans and protect the Sacred Sphere. But to Jin, those b...(展开全部)

〔澳〕切斯特·威尔莫特，战地记者，历史学家。曾任职于澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）与英国广播公司（BBC）。1941 年，在北非、希腊和叙利亚的战役中，他是前线采访的先锋。在报道太平洋战争时，他陪同澳大利亚军队沿着科科达小道进行艰苦的战斗。1944 年，在为 BBC做报道时，他乘坐滑翔机在诺曼底登陆日 (6 月 6 日 ) 登陆法国，很快因报道了英国许多重大军事行动而名声大噪。1945 年 5 月，他出席了德国投降，并在纽伦堡审判时担任 BBC 特别记者。

In the seventeenth century, previously peaceful relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth deteriorated into a series of military confrontations over the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Although scholars have generally interpreted this rivalry in terms of conflicting geopolitical interests, this state-centred approach ignores one of th...(展开全部)