An engaging and witty cultural history that traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying. The classical myth of Narcissus warned of the dangers of self-reflectio...(展开全部)

Book Description Glamour, glitz, sex and revenge – and the allure of Hollywood… Toby Temple is the world’s funniest comedian, loved by presidents, lusted after by women. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure that he gets it. But, deep down, he yearns for love and stability. Jill Castle has always been an outsider, desperate to be accepted. Despite her beauty, ...(展开全部)

"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both ...(展开全部)

In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merce Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this "Broken Mirror", the reader sees events and characters spanning three gene...(展开全部)

本书作者乔纳森•赖利—史密斯是英国剑桥大学教会史教授，国际知名的十字军史研究专家。曾著有《什么是十字军？》、《牛津十字军史》、《第一次十字军东征与十字军观念》。通过这些著作，他推动了十字军研究的重大变革。他认为，十字军东征的动机更多地是出于虔诚、宗教热情、责任感，真诚地期望解放圣地并使之回归基督教的怀抱；而不是出于贪婪和帝国主义。 译者夏继果，历史学博士，首都师范大学历史学院教授，研究方向欧洲中世纪史，现主要从事基督教文明与伊斯兰文明关系史研究。曾出版专著《伊丽莎白一世时期英国外交政策研究》，出版译著《12世纪文艺复兴》、《现代世界的起源》、《全球史读本》、《近代世界体系》（合译）等。在《世界历史》、《史学理论研究》等学术期刊发表论文30余篇。

本书作者乔纳森•赖利—史密斯是英国剑桥大学教会史教授，国际知名的十字军史研究专家。曾著有《什么是十字军？》、《牛津十字军史》、《第一次十字军东征与十字军观念》。通过这些著作，他推动了十字军研究的重大变革。他认为，十字军东征的动机更多地是出于虔诚、宗教热情、责任感，真诚地期望解放圣地并使之回归基督教的怀抱；而不是出于贪婪和帝国主义。 译者夏继果，历史学博士，首都师范大学历史学院教授，研究方向欧洲中世纪史，现主要从事基督教文明与伊斯兰文明关系史研究。曾出版专著《伊丽莎白一世时期英国外交政策研究》，出版译著《12世纪文艺复兴》、《现代世界的起源》、《全球史读本》、《近代世界体系》（合译）等。在《世界历史》、《史学理论研究》等学术期刊发表论文30余篇。

Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts...(展开全部)

Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts...(展开全部)

Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts...(展开全部)