From Vialli, one of Italy’s most famous footballers as well as a former manager of England’s Chelsea F.C., and Marcotti, the UK correspondent for Corriere dello Sport and football columnist for The Times , comes this unique journey to the heart of two great soccer cultures.-- From the Hardcover edition.

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversa...(展开全部)

查尔斯·珀西·斯诺，（Charles Percy Snow，1905年10月15日－1980年7月1日），科学家，小说家。

杰里米•普尔曼，生于英国，在英国接受教育，迄今已发表七部著作。他的第一部著作《关于亚利桑那州的有趣事实》为他赢得了英联邦作家大奖和最佳处女作奖。随后他又发表了《勇敢者之歌》《我的美国》和《皮肤》。他的纪实类作品包括为伊丽莎白•贝肯•卡斯特写的传记《掩藏的伤口》和为他曾曾祖父吉普赛•杰姆•梅斯所写的传记，他这位祖先是世界上最后一位不带手套拳击的重量级世界冠军。

The Road of Bones is the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre of the nation's history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to the rise of Putin and his oil-rich oligarchy. Tsars, wars, famine and wealth: all have crossed and travelled this road, but no-one has ever told its story. In...(展开全部)

理查德·E.李（Richard E. Lee），费尔南德· 布罗代尔中心副主任，宾汉姆顿大学社会学副教授。著有《文化研究的生命与时代：知识结构的政治与变革》（Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformationof the Structures of Knowledge）。 伊曼努尔·沃勒斯坦（Immanuel Wallerstein，1930—2019），美国社会学家，耶鲁大学高级研究员，曾任国际社会学协会主席，以提出“世界体系理论”著称。著有《现代世界体系（四卷）》（The Modern World-System）。

理查德·E.李（Richard E. Lee），费尔南德· 布罗代尔中心副主任，宾汉姆顿大学社会学副教授。著有《文化研究的生命与时代：知识结构的政治与变革》（Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformationof the Structures of Knowledge）。 伊曼努尔·沃勒斯坦（Immanuel Wallerstein，1930—2019），美国社会学家，耶鲁大学高级研究员，曾任国际社会学协会主席，以提出“世界体系理论”著称。著有《现代世界体系（四卷）》（The Modern World-System）。

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。

Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is Levison Wood's account of his most complex expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, he seeks to challenge our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how ...(展开全部)

We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the parts that are mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. The situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential can be actualized by the realization and development of human essence. The human e...(展开全部)