肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903—1983），20世纪杰出的艺术史家、作家、策展人、纪录片主持人。二十七岁即任牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，三十岁出任英国国家美术馆馆长，并在第二次世界大战期间，主持了战时艺术家计划，保障了艺术收藏品的安全。战争结束后，曾任牛津大学斯莱德教授。进入20世纪50年代，创作了多部艺术类电视纪录片并担当主持人。1969年，随着首部关于艺术的大型彩色电视纪录片《文明》的面世，成为享誉世界的艺术大师。2014年，英国泰特美术馆举办专题展览纪念肯尼斯•克拉克，称誉其为“具有世纪影响力的英国艺术大家”，并感谢他在“将艺术带给大众”事业上做出的杰出贡献。

蒲立本（1922—2013），加拿大著名汉学家，曾任剑桥大学汉学教授，在唐史研究方面有突出成就，后转向古汉语语言学研究，并在哥伦比亚大学出任教授。曾任加拿大亚洲研究学会会长(1971—1974)、美国东方学会会长(1990—1991)、国际汉语语言学学会主席(1995—1996)等。

'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...(展开全部)

'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...(展开全部)

Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg's father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other "manly" endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his father's efforts to change him. But when Greg's dad threatens to send him t...(展开全部)

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entang...(展开全部)

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbr...(展开全部)

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed thinkers and scientists to the conclusion that, following the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for rep...(展开全部)

Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing over twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions was the Taiping faith of the rebels. Inspired by a Protestant missionary tract, the core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, ...(展开全部)

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbr...(展开全部)