By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did. It examines the state of Europe in 1914 and the o...(展开全部)

埃里克•H.克莱因（Eric H. Cline），乔治•华盛顿大学古典和近东语言与文明系主任，古典文学、人类学和历史学教授；乔治•华盛顿大学国会考古研究所所长。拥有多年考古挖掘经验，同时也著有多本面向大众的历史畅销书，如《文明的崩塌：公元前1177年的地中海世界》《考古的故事》《圣经考古学》等。2011年获得圣经考古学会“考古学流行图书奖”。

The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope and intensity of the Cold War. But why did it last so long? And what impact did it have on the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and the Third World? Finally, how did it affect the broader history of the second half of the twentieth century - what were the human and f...(展开全部)

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more,...(展开全部)

All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell, with no nucleus. The bodies of more complex plants and animals consist of billions of 'eukaryotic' cells, of varying kinds, ada...(展开全部)

菲利普·博尔曼是著名的音乐理论研究者，他不仅理论知识深厚，还经常深入到世界各地的偏远地区进行采风，对非主流音乐和民族音乐有着自己独特的看法。

World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversi...(展开全部)

菲利普·博尔曼是著名的音乐理论研究者，他不仅理论知识深厚，还经常深入到世界各地的偏远地区进行采风，对非主流音乐和民族音乐有着自己独特的看法。

World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversi...(展开全部)

- Introduces in a clear and concise way the most important basic findings and procedures of evolutionary biology - Looks at the evidence for evolution, eg the fossil record, the distribution of species, the similarities and differences between organisms - A section at the end looks at the seemingly difficult problems for the theory of evolution - Explains adaptation and natural...(展开全部)