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)

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic....(展开全部)

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)

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, ar...(展开全部)

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the inde...(展开全部)

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the inde...(展开全部)

Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. I...(展开全部)

How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now? Combining "a scholar's rigo...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)