A true-life thriller completely exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artifacts--and features a rich cast of rogues and some of the world's most prestigious art institutions The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of ...(展开全部)

拉尔斯•布朗沃思 Lars Brownworth 英语世界公认最会讲历史故事的作家之一，著名播主、作家、教师，创立了最早的历史播客“拜占庭十二帝”。苹果公司认为，“拜占庭十二帝”是使其播客风格得以形成的50个播客之一。目前，布朗沃思一直更新着他的历史播客，拥有大量的忠实听众，并且在美国一所教会大学担任历史系主任。 《纽约时报》曾认为布朗沃思是一位杰出的历史普及作家。他著有畅销历史作品《诺曼风云：从蛮族到王族的三个世纪》《维京传奇：来自海上的战狼》和《拜占庭帝国：拯救西方文明的东罗马千年史》。书中的笔法延续了他播客中引人入胜的叙事风格和性格鲜明的人物描写，都曾登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE "KANSAS CITY STAR" From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian," "comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill ...(展开全部)

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that mark...(展开全部)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE "KANSAS CITY STAR" From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian," "comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill ...(展开全部)

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that mark...(展开全部)

爱德华·赛登施蒂克（Edward George Seidensticker，1921-2007），著名日本研究专家、翻译家。出生于美国科罗拉多州，长年居于日本，先后执教于东京上智大学、斯坦福大学（1962-1966）、密歇根大学（1966-1977）、哥伦比亚大学（1977-1985）。曾因日本文化研究及日本文学译介方面的杰出贡献，获旭日章（1975）、菊池宽奖（1977）、日本国际交流基金会奖（1984）。所译英文版《源氏物语》家喻户晓，被认为是该作品的最佳英译本。其对川端康成作品的杰出译介，最终促成川端康成获得1968年诺贝尔文学奖。

作者简介 [英]玛丽·霍林斯沃思 Mary Hollingsworth 英国学者，专注研究中世纪历史。著有《红衣主教的帽子》（The Cardinal’s Hat）、《波吉亚家族》（The Borgias）、《文艺复兴时期意大利的资助研究》（Patronage in Renaissance Italy）。 译者简介 贾荣香。北京建筑大学教授，博士，比较文化学者、译者、诗者、散文作者。著有《中西设计文化美学》，译著有《凤凰城》《寻找正义之城》等。作品多次被翻译为英语、俄语、马来语、韩语等，曾出访多个国家和地区进行学术与文化交流。

作者简介 [英]玛丽·霍林斯沃思 Mary Hollingsworth 英国学者，专注研究中世纪历史。著有《红衣主教的帽子》（The Cardinal’s Hat）、《波吉亚家族》（The Borgias）、《文艺复兴时期意大利的资助研究》（Patronage in Renaissance Italy）。 译者简介 贾荣香。北京建筑大学教授，博士，比较文化学者、译者、诗者、散文作者。著有《中西设计文化美学》，译著有《凤凰城》《寻找正义之城》等。作品多次被翻译为英语、俄语、马来语、韩语等，曾出访多个国家和地区进行学术与文化交流。

Icy, bleak, but unusually dramatic is this portrait of earth’s longest railroad and its prominent role in Russia’s development. The building of the 5,750-mile steel ribbon between Moscow and Vladivostok was the usual railroad epic on the vastest scale, with brilliant engineering, creative financing, and an army of laborers and convicts toiling away at perilous tasks in extreme ...(展开全部)