Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gall...(展开全部)

作者简介： 西蒙•沙玛，哥伦比亚大学艺术史和历史教授， 知名作家，沃尔夫森历史奖、W.H. 史密斯文学奖得主。著有《财富的窘境》《公民们》《风景与记忆》《伦勃朗的眼睛》《英国史》《犹太人的故事》等著作。担任《金融时报》特约编辑，为英国广播公司（BBC）编写和制作了多部优秀获奖电视片，包括十五集纪录片《英国史》和八集纪录片《艺术的力量》，后者荣获艾美奖。 译者简介： 刘冰， 毕业于英国巴斯大学， 获得笔译与会议口译硕士学位（MAIT）。曾连续四年（2017—2021）担任博鳌亚洲论坛年会同传译员，现为外交学院英语系讲师。

A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He begins with Cop...(展开全部)

The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading historians who offer the fruits of the best modern scholarship to the ...(展开全部)

埃米尔·路德维希(Emil Ludwig，1881-1948)。德国作家，以撰写通俗传记而享有国际声誉。所写传记强调人物个性，被称为"新传记派"，是20世纪最伟大的传记作家。 路德维希1881年生于德国布雷斯劳(今属波兰)。他在大学的专业是法学，却选择了作者和记者生涯。1906年移居瑞士，并于1932年获瑞士国籍。《歌德传》及《拿破仑传》的出版使他成为享誉世界的传记作家，他开创了传记写作的新流派，以描写人物的心路历程以及性格分析而享有盛名。代表作品有《拿破仑》、《俾斯麦》、《歌德》、《人之子》、《林肯》、《兴登堡》、《克娄巴特拉:一个女王的故事》、《罗斯福:命运和权利的研究》、《三幅画像:希特勒、墨索里尼、斯大林》、《贝多芬》、《奥瑟罗》、《蓝色地中海》、《青白尼罗河》等…… 另外还有描写德国公元800年至公元1941年的为德国二战所写的《德国人》。...(展开全部)

西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama)，英国国家学术院院士、皇家文学学会会员。他1945年出生于伦敦，21岁在剑桥大学以优等生身份毕业，随后在剑桥大学和牛津大学教书。1977 年，他出版第一部专著《爱国者和解放者》，即获沃尔夫森历史奖。1980年，在哈佛大学谋得教席，后“转会”至哥伦比亚大学担任教授。在美国期间，他陆续出版了多本学术著作，获得了学界的极大关注和大批读者的认可。其中《财富的窘境》（1987）、《公民们》（1989）分别获得当年的《纽约时报书评》年度好书奖，《风景与记忆》（1995）获得W.H.史密斯文学奖。 1995年，沙玛受邀将《风景与记忆》改编为系列电视片，充分展示了其叙事功底和画面意识。之后，BBC邀请沙玛编写并主持大型纪录片《英国史》。沙玛特地迁回英国，专心投身于《英国史》的创作。这部15集的电视片于2000年开播，赢得如潮好评...(展开全部)

This is a groundbreaking, highly original work of postmodern feminist theology from one of the most important authors in the field. The Face of the Deep deconstructs the Christian doctrine of creation which claims that a transcendent Lord unilaterally created the universe out of nothing. Catherine Keller's impassioned, graceful meditation develops an alternative representation ...(展开全部)

Setting out to "make intellectual and emotional sense of a man's relationship with his defining organ," David Friedman moves from highbrow to lowbrow in this lighthearted but substantive cultural history. Successively viewed as a life source, a symbol of a sacred covenant with God, an emblem of shame, an instrument of domination, a mere prop for the pharmaceutical companies, an...(展开全部)

Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, is a book that gives context to the central role of the penis in Western civilization. A man can hold his manhood in his hand, but who is really...(展开全部)

Setting out to "make intellectual and emotional sense of a man's relationship with his defining organ," David Friedman moves from highbrow to lowbrow in this lighthearted but substantive cultural history. Successively viewed as a life source, a symbol of a sacred covenant with God, an emblem of shame, an instrument of domination, a mere prop for the pharmaceutical companies, an...(展开全部)