On March 13 2013, during an expedition to the Red Sea to investigate the world’s oldest harbor, Egyptologist Pierre Tallet received an urgent phone call. His team had discovered a treasure trove of scrolls: the records of work-gangs who transported stone down the Nile to Giza during the reign of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. There, Mark Lehner has discovered the quarries...(展开全部)

范德凯（James C. VanderKam）是美国著名学者，于哈佛大学近东语言与文明系获得博士学位，现任教于圣母大学，学术领域为早期犹太教和希伯来圣经，从事死海古卷研究二十余年。已出版多部学术专著。 译者柳博赟，于北京大学英语系获得博士学位，贝勒大学宗教系访问学者，现任教于北京语言大学高级翻译学院，资深同声传译译员。参与翻译过道格拉斯、俄里根等著名学者的经典名著。

Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan 'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude 'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to Ne...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into ...(展开全部)

作者：克里斯提昂．賈克，一九四七年生於法國巴黎。畢業於巴黎索爾邦大學，是一位埃及歷史博士、教授及小說家。 在他十三歲那年，一本有關埃及文明史的書籍正式開啟了賈克對古文明的熱愛。十七歲第一次造訪埃及，他不但深深愛上了這個國度，甚至認為自己有著像是在外漂流數載，終歸故里的感受。也因此造就了他在回法後繼續深造，取得了埃及歷史博士學位。 法國文壇認為他的文學地位，可與大、小仲馬並駕其驅，他寫小說的功力可見其高深。

Discoveries in astronomy challenge our fundamental ideas about the universe. Where the astronomers of antiquity once spoke of fixed stars, we now speak of whirling galaxies and giant supernovae. Where we once thought Earth was the center of the universe, we now see it as a small planet among millions of other planetary systems, any number of which could also hold life. These dr...(展开全部)

For anyone who has ever been fascinated by the night sky, this beautifully designed introduction to astronomy and its history reveals the compelling story of mankind's quest through the ages to unlock the scientific secrets of our universe. With over 400 stunning illustrations, including the latest satellite photography, historic prints and paintings, and artists impressions of...(展开全部)

An anchor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an instrument wrought into perfection by ages of experience, a flawless thing for its purpose. An anchor of yesterday (because nowadays there are contrivances like mushrooms and things like claws, of no particular expression or shape - just hooks) - an anchor of yesterday is in its way ...(展开全部)