The Paper Trail tells the story of how a simple Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread at an unprecedented rate around the world. Alexander Monro traces this groundbreaking invention's voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for its spread across China and Japan, and follows it westward along the Silk Road, whe...(展开全部)

This is the story of how paper, a simple Chinese invention, has wrapped itself around our world, with history's most momentous ideas etched upon its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and of ideas. For over two millennia, it has allowed ideas, religions, philosophies and propaganda to sp...(展开全部)

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spanish and French for thousands of year, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and...(展开全部)

With "The Invention of Art", Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention - that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long 18th century.

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world s first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere s ride to raise the countryside of New England against the m...(展开全部)

A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world. We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under poli...(展开全部)

戴维•伍顿（David Wootton），约克大学年度历史教授，目前专攻16世纪-18世纪的科技和文化史，著有《保罗•沙尔皮》（Paolo Sarpi,1986）、《坏医学》（Bad Medicine,2006）、《伽利略》（Galileo,2010）等书。曾经参与英国学院罗列讲座（2008），牛津卡莱尔讲座（2014），波士顿本尼迪克特讲座（2014）。2016年凭《科学的诞生》荣获麦吉尔大学坎迪尔历史奖优秀奖。

戴维•伍顿（David Wootton），约克大学年度历史教授，目前专攻16世纪-18世纪的科技和文化史，著有《保罗•沙尔皮》（Paolo Sarpi,1986）、《坏医学》（Bad Medicine,2006）、《伽利略》（Galileo,2010）等书。曾经参与英国学院罗列讲座（2008），牛津卡莱尔讲座（2014），波士顿本尼迪克特讲座（2014）。2016年凭《科学的诞生》荣获麦吉尔大学坎迪尔历史奖优秀奖。

A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world. We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under poli...(展开全部)

This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organise...(展开全部)