An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya a...(展开全部)

The Goths are truly a “lost civilization.” Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet after the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, the Goths disappea...(展开全部)

We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world. But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation. All around them were...(展开全部)

From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilization. Known as the “Romans of the Americas,” these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, ch...(展开全部)

In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths, and human sacrifice. While the Aztecs are often described as “stone age,” their achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fi...(展开全部)

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a f...(展开全部)

"The gold standard of introductory books on the ancient Maya."— Expedition The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. In these pages Michael D. Coe distills a lifetime’s scholarship for the general reader and student. The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological and epigraphic re...(展开全部)

迈克尔·D. 科（Michael D. Coe） 耶鲁大学人类学名誉教授和耶鲁大学皮博迪自然历史博物馆名誉馆长。他的著作包括《玛雅通史》《墨西哥》和《破解玛雅密码》等。 斯蒂芬·休斯顿（Stephen Houston） 布朗大学社会科学教授，因在玛雅文化研究和推广方面具有杰出贡献，获危地马拉总统授予该国最高荣誉格查尔勋章。他的最新著作是《天才通道：经典玛雅艺术和文字中的年轻人》。

This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence and historical studies and offers the most extensive revisions of this clas...(展开全部)

著者简介 洛朗·比奈（Laurent Binet），1972年出生在巴黎。他的第一部小说《HHhH》被《纽约时报》评为年度最佳书籍之一，并获得了龚古尔首部小说奖（新人奖）。其他小说代表作包括《语言的第七种功能》和《翻转文明》，前者获得了行际盟友奖和法国FNAC小说奖，后者获得了法兰西学院小说大奖和或然历史写作“侧面奖”（Sidewise Award for Alternate History）。 译者简介 汪玲，复旦大学法语语言文学硕士，译有《我们与他人》，曾入围傅雷翻译出版奖初评。