Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories , the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the time, attributes Rome's success to the greatness o...(展开全部)

"The Histories" describes how a small band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus'' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions: a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account of European lake-dwellers; and far-fetched accounts of dog-headed men and ...(展开全部)

From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written. Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century BCE. He traveled extensively through the lands of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and collected stories, and then recounted his exper...(展开全部)

From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written. Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century BCE. He traveled extensively through the lands of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and collected stories, and then recounted his exper...(展开全部)

We live in a world saturated by future-consciousness. Our lives are constructed around expectations of the future as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This volume is a conceptual tool kit for thinking about the hopes and anxieties embodied in ideas of the future. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, and ...(展开全部)

瓜达卢佩·内特尔（Guadalupe Nettel，1973— ） 墨西哥当代作家，长期为《格兰塔》《国家报》《纽约时报》等知名报刊供稿，出版有短篇小说集《真正的孤独》《红鱼之姻》《离群鸟》、长篇小说《我从中出生的身体》《冬天之后》《独生女儿》等。 曾入围2016年纽斯塔特国际文学奖决选名单、2021年牛津-韦登菲尔德翻译奖短名单、2023年国际布克奖短名单，获安娜·西格斯奖、杜埃罗河岸短篇小说奖、埃拉尔德小说奖等。 —————————————————— 周园 西班牙马德里康普顿斯大学拉美文学博士在读，曾赴阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学访学。主攻阿根廷现当代诗歌研究。 - 周妤婕 巴塞罗那自治大学比较文学博士，现为上海外国语大学贤达经济人文学院西班牙语系讲师、西安外国语大学拉美研究中心兼职研究员。译有《床上抽烟危险》，合译《无人亮灯》《我们的作家：拉美文...(展开全部)

瓜达卢佩·内特尔（Guadalupe Nettel，1973— ） 墨西哥当代作家，长期为《格兰塔》《国家报》《纽约时报》等知名报刊供稿，出版有短篇小说集《真正的孤独》《红鱼之姻》《离群鸟》、长篇小说《我从中出生的身体》《冬天之后》《独生女儿》等。 曾入围2016年纽斯塔特国际文学奖决选名单、2021年牛津-韦登菲尔德翻译奖短名单、2023年国际布克奖短名单，获安娜·西格斯奖、杜埃罗河岸短篇小说奖、埃拉尔德小说奖等。 —————————————————— 周园 西班牙马德里康普顿斯大学拉美文学博士在读，曾赴阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学访学。主攻阿根廷现当代诗歌研究。 - 周妤婕 巴塞罗那自治大学比较文学博士，现为上海外国语大学贤达经济人文学院西班牙语系讲师、西安外国语大学拉美研究中心兼职研究员。译有《床上抽烟危险》，合译《无人亮灯》《我们的作家：拉美文...(展开全部)

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the ca...(展开全部)

In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over 'what is the canon?' and 'what difference can feminism make?' Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire -...(展开全部)

Most comprehensive study of Max Weber's thought Written by an historian with no religious or philosophical agenda to convey Takes the development of The Protestant Ethic and The "Spirit" of Capitalism as central point of reference Views Max Weber and his body of work as a whole, overcoming the usual fragmented and specialized viewpoint Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin H...(展开全部)