In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in thing...(展开全部)

What you are today is not important... for in thisrunaway bestseller you will learn how to changeyour life by applying the secrets you are about todiscover in the ancient scrolls.

What you are today is not important... for in thisrunaway bestseller you will learn how to changeyour life by applying the secrets you are about todiscover in the ancient scrolls.

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)

In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history...(展开全部)

In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history...(展开全部)

阿伦·拉奥（Arun Rao），毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森工商管理学院，长期从事投资业务，曾先后在三家投资公司工作，其中两家在硅谷。拉奥早期曾为《经济学人》（The Economist）和《Seeking Alpha》等杂志撰写商业和金融方面的文章。 皮埃罗·斯加鲁菲（Piero Scarruffi ），毕业于意大利都灵大学数学系，1983年来到硅谷，在奥利维蒂公司任职工程师，长期从事人工智能研究和互联网设计。斯加鲁菲曾是斯坦福大学访问学者，还曾在加州大学伯克利分校讲学。20世纪90年代，他曾率先在互联网上开发自己的新闻网站，《纽约时报》曾经在2006年以《史上最伟大的网站》为题对其进行专题报道。斯加鲁菲现在是自由职业者，主要工作是为硅谷和欧洲的公司提供咨询以及在大学讲学。他兴趣广泛，在心智论、文学艺术、音乐史等领域多有...(展开全部)

阿伦·拉奥（Arun Rao），毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森工商管理学院，长期从事投资业务，曾先后在三家投资公司工作，其中两家在硅谷。拉奥早期曾为《经济学人》（The Economist）和《Seeking Alpha》等杂志撰写商业和金融方面的文章。 皮埃罗·斯加鲁菲（Piero Scarruffi ），毕业于意大利都灵大学数学系，1983年来到硅谷，在奥利维蒂公司任职工程师，长期从事人工智能研究和互联网设计。斯加鲁菲曾是斯坦福大学访问学者，还曾在加州大学伯克利分校讲学。20世纪90年代，他曾率先在互联网上开发自己的新闻网站，《纽约时报》曾经在2006年以《史上最伟大的网站》为题对其进行专题报道。斯加鲁菲现在是自由职业者，主要工作是为硅谷和欧洲的公司提供咨询以及在大学讲学。他兴趣广泛，在心智论、文学艺术、音乐史等领域多有...(展开全部)

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spanish and French for thousands of year, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and...(展开全部)

With "The Invention of Art", Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention - that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long 18th century.