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)

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)

For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian subcontinent to become one of the largest and most dynamic empires on earth? In this rigorous new interpretation of the period, Munis D. Faruqui explores Mughal state formation through the ...(展开全部)

罗杰•泽拉兹尼，美国国宝级科幻奇幻作家，在这两大领域均达到了极其罕见的巅峰状态。 在三十多年的创作生涯中，他一共摘取了六次雨果奖、三次星云奖和两次轨迹奖，留下了五十五部长篇和一百五十余个中短篇。1963年，他的作品被编入“著名科幻小说殿堂”，并于2010年入驻“科幻小说 名 人堂”。 他率先倡导科幻小说写作要从心理学、社会学和语言学三方面考虑，打破了太空冒险科幻一统天下的局面，被誉为“新浪潮”的领军人物。在泽拉兹尼的作品中，他创造性地将科幻、奇幻融为一体，将神话、宗教与科幻奇幻有机结合，每一个设定都如教科书般精确，营造出独特的世界观。他的科幻作品中有奇幻的瑰丽恣肆，奇幻作品有科幻的严谨设定。因此，他被视为“那个时代最伟大的科幻奇幻作家”。 在1970年代，泽拉兹尼开始倾力打造他的奇幻名篇《安珀志》，历时20年，终于得以完成这部奇幻历史上的里程碑式作品...(展开全部)

<b>Amber: A kingdom beyond imagination - where brother fights brother to succeed to the throne...</b><br /><br />When Corwin awoke in the hospital he remembered very little. Except that he'd been in an automobile accident that wasn't an accident at all. Then he discovered his name and the fact that his strength was superhuman. And that was enough to send him on a journey that s...(展开全部)

Science FictionLarge Print EditionFantasy of a superior order. Washington Post Exiled to the Shadows for centuries, a man more than mortal awakens in an Earth hospital with no memory of his past and is surrounded by enemies who hunger for his destruction. For Corwin is the rightful successor to the throne of the real world. But to rule, he must conquer impossible realities an...(展开全部)