Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more th...(展开全部)

乔纳森·芬比是十八本书的作者，包括备受称赞的《在边缘：法国的困扰》《将军：戴高乐及其拯救的法国》，后者被《纽约时报》誉为“精彩之书……博识敏锐、扣人心弦，让人不忍释卷”。他关注法国逾半个世纪，曾任路透社和《经济学人》巴黎通讯站负责人，也曾在《观察家》和《南华早报》发表和编辑诸多报道。他还被法国授予荣誉军团勋章和国家荣誉勋章。

There are many ways of presenting the history of the left. In this concise and cogent survey, Darrow Schecter avoids trivializing struggles of the last 150 years, focusing on Marx's theories and the diverse struggles for human emancipation that have characterized European and world history since the French Revolution. Each chapter in the book builds on the previous one, analysi...(展开全部)

《从马克思至今的左派史》作者达罗·谢克特（Darrow Schecter），曾任教于牛津大学，目前是萨塞克斯大学人文学院准教授。他讲授的课程涵盖政治理论和批判理论，先后撰写著作多部，包括《国家主权，还是政治共同体？》和《超越霸权：走向政治合法性的新哲学》。译者魏南海，是上海财经大学人文学院教师，英语翻译硕士，马克思主义中国化专业博士。从事翻译十余载，翻译各类文献资料数百万字。

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year From “one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over more than half a century” (Mary Beard) comes a powerful look at how the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why their legacy still matters today. “This majestic book by Oswyn Murray has been long and eagerly awaited . . . and its quality and scope...(展开全部)

No country’s past can match Egypt’s in antiquity, richness, and variety. Rarely, however, is this nation’s history presented as a comprehensive panorama, since scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras―pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern―that are rarely studied in connection to each other, despite the strong elements of continuity running t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 [埃及] 杰森·汤普森（Jason Thompson） 美国科尔比学院教授，埃及知名历史学家，对埃及史的研究广博而深入，以讲述通俗历史而著名。著有《加德纳·威尔金森爵士和他的圈子》（Sir Cardiner Wilkinson and His Circle），编有《埃及谈》（Description of Egypt）《漫谈现代埃及人的风俗文化》（An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians）等作品。 —————————— 【译者简介】 刘梦迪 苏州大学外国语学院英语翻译硕士，利物浦大学社会语言学博士在读，研究方向为多语、语言与身份构建、翻译理论与实践、中国文化翻译与对外传播。

“A beautifully written story, a box of delights, a treasure trove: final proof of truth’s superiority over fiction.”—Andrew Roberts A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britai...(展开全部)

Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence. Rape - A History looks at the perception of rape, both in the ...(展开全部)

The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major ...(展开全部)