法蒂玛·梅尔尼斯1940年出生于摩洛哥的精神首都非斯。少年时代进入摩洛哥首批男女生混合的私立学校学习，后留学法国和美国，继而成为拉巴特穆罕默德五世大学科学研究院教授、联合国大学委员会成员。《禁苑·梦》是梅尔尼斯撰写的第一部文学作品，1994年在纽约出版后反响强烈。

[美]简·海瑟薇（Jane Hathaway）著 美国俄亥俄州立大学历史学教授，奥斯曼帝国研究专家，尤其专精奥斯曼时代的埃及史。

Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, yet no one knows the love story that led to its construction. Author Alice Brière-Haquet and Illustrated by Csil have pooled their creative talents to tell this touching story about overcoming hardship with clever invention fueled by love. Mr. and Mrs. Eiffel are a happy couple enjoying living in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. Until...(展开全部)

Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, yet no one knows the love story that led to its construction. Author Alice Brière-Haquet and Illustrated by Csil have pooled their creative talents to tell this touching story about overcoming hardship with clever invention fueled by love. Mr. and Mrs. Eiffel are a happy couple enjoying living in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. Until...(展开全部)

While the classically inspired 'Grecian' gown designed by Madame Alix Gres is widely recognized and admired, little else of the brilliant couturier's life or work has received close attention. This book, by far the most detailed study yet published on this influential fashion designer, carefully analyzes Madame Gres' innovative construction techniques and connects her designs t...(展开全部)

Marie Tussaud led a remarkable life and with grit and audacity she overcame reversals of fortune to build an extraordinary spectacle. Of lowly birth, Marie became apprentice to a charismatic Paris showman who taught her wax modelling. They lived among a colourful cast of 'Italian singers, pastry cooks, restaurant keepers, marionettes, acrobats, giants, dwarves, ferocious beast...(展开全部)

作者 凯特·贝里奇（Kate Berridge）英国知名作家、撰稿人，现居伦敦；在《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times ）、《旁观者》（The Spectator ）等报刊上发表过大量作品；热衷于研究19 世纪的历史文化，代表作有《蜡像传奇：杜莎夫人和她的时代》（Waxing Mythical: The Life and Legend ofMadame Tussaud ）、《僵尸：死亡禁忌的社会文化史考察》（Vigor Mortis: From Fear to Fashion - Discarding the Death Taboo ）等。 译者 刘火雄 现供职于南京大学，从事教学科研工作。著有《邹韬奋与中国现代出版转型》《曾经年少轻离别》《历历来时路：诺贝尔文学奖获奖作品在华出版传播研究》《想起故国想起你，各种悲欣交集》等。

Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations--limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men--to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences. Exploring the ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent re...(展开全部)