Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jo...(展开全部)

The Scandinavian myths form a linked chain of stories, creating a mighty, fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, master-smiths and magicians. Battles between gods and giants exist alongside unexpected love matches until the final days of destruction dawn, with their promise of rebirth. Using his talents as poet, translator and author, Kevin Crossley-Holland brings t...(展开全部)

凯文·克罗斯利-霍兰 Kevin Crossley-Holland 英国诗人、翻译家、历史小说家。毕业于牛津大学，曾任英国学校图书馆协会主席，现任英国皇家文学会会员。长期从事盎格鲁-撒克逊文学研究工作，著有《北欧神话全书》《英国及爱尔兰民间故事集》及历史小说《亚瑟三部曲》等，译有古英语史诗《贝奥武甫》，获得过卡内基文学奖、《卫报》儿童小说奖等。 ———————— 黄田 自由译者，译有The Serpentine Band（汉译英，原作《宛转环》）、《华西旅行考察记》（英译汉）等。

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core book.

Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the "unrivaled World History of our day" (A. J. P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Now in an equally masterful performance, Roberts displays his consummate skills of exposition in telling the tale of the European continent, from its Neolithic...(展开全部)

Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the "unrivaled World History of our day" (A. J. P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Now in an equally masterful performance, Roberts displays his consummate skills of exposition in telling the tale of the European continent, from its Neolithic...(展开全部)

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core book.

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.