Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange...(展开全部)

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life ...(展开全部)

As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world’s second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the cont...(展开全部)

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The Restless Anthropologist", Alma Gottlieb brings together eight eminent scholars to recount the riveting personal and intellectual ...(展开全部)

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how...(展开全部)

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou―the generation born after 1990. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--...(展开全部)

Once the most famous person in the world, French philosopher Henri Bergson has now been largely forgotten. As the first biography of Bergson in English, Herald of a Restless World brings his fascinating story back into the public eye. This book is about what was profound, interesting, unusual, extraordinary, and compelling about Bergson's life and his ideas. It consists of thre...(展开全部)