The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura's Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating their buried armaments. It is a time of suspense and anguished uncertainty for everyone, including the once-wealthy Turbin family, who, like the other last supporte...(展开全部)

“Great and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second.” It is 1918: the Russian Revolution has just ended, Ukraine is in the midst of civil war, and in Kiev, the two Turbin brothers are preparing to fight for the White Guard in the wake of their beloved mother’s death. Friends charge in from the streets amid an atmosphere of heady chaos, downing vodka,...(展开全部)

Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv. Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-w...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

Welcome back to the world of mice in the third collected volume of the Eisner Award-winning and critically acclaimed fantasy comic series, Mouse Guard. This beautifully illustrated prequel to the two previous volumes spins the tale of wise oldfur and longtime Mouse Guard member Celanawe, as he fulfills the promise made to young Lieam to detail the day his paw first touched the ...(展开全部)

Product Description Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) is acknowledged as one of Italy’s most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the first time (the Italian edition, Ricerca del Rinascimento, appeared in 1992), Tafuri analyzes Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives, exploring questions t...(展开全部)

Product Description Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) is acknowledged as one of Italy’s most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the first time (the Italian edition, Ricerca del Rinascimento, appeared in 1992), Tafuri analyzes Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives, exploring questions t...(展开全部)

"White Guard", Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Russian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, Bu...(展开全部)

[英]西蒙·塞巴格·蒙蒂菲奥里(Simon Sebag Montefiore)，荣获多项大奖的历史学家，其著作已被翻译成四十余种语言。《叶卡捷琳娜大帝与波将金》入选塞缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖和马什传记奖的短名单；Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar获得英国图书奖年度历史著作奖；《青年斯大林》获得英国科斯塔传记奖、美国《洛杉矶时报》传记奖、法国政治传记大奖和奥地利克莱斯基政治文学奖；《耶路撒冷三千年》获得文津图书奖和美国犹太图书理事会“年度好书”；《罗曼诺夫皇朝》入选《纽约时报》十大好书榜单，并荣获意大利“卢皮凯亚·德尔·特里奇奥文学奖”（Lupicaia del Terriccio Literature Prize）。他的作品还包括得到高度赞扬的“莫斯科三部曲”（小说）：《萨申卡》、Red Sky at Noon 和...(展开全部)