A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that mark...(展开全部)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE "KANSAS CITY STAR" From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian," "comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill ...(展开全部)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE "KANSAS CITY STAR" From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian," "comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill ...(展开全部)

威尔•杜兰特（Will Durant，1885-1981），先后在美国圣彼得学院和哥伦比亚大学接受高等教育，后来进入哥伦比亚大学研究生物学，并在杜威的指导下攻读哲学，1971年获哥大博士学位。1926年，他出版了《哲学的故事》，获得出乎意料的成功，随后，他花了四十余年的 时间完成了广受好评的重要著作——11卷的《世界文明史》。 他于1968年获得普利策奖，1977年获得自由勋章奖。终其一生，杜兰特都致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来。

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.

Icy, bleak, but unusually dramatic is this portrait of earth’s longest railroad and its prominent role in Russia’s development. The building of the 5,750-mile steel ribbon between Moscow and Vladivostok was the usual railroad epic on the vastest scale, with brilliant engineering, creative financing, and an army of laborers and convicts toiling away at perilous tasks in extreme ...(展开全部)

亚当·希金博特姆（Adam Higginbotham） 1968年生于英国，《纽约客》《连线》《史密森尼》和《纽约时报杂志》主笔。 鲁伊 | 译者 旅居澳大利亚的独立译者。曾任《三联生活周刊》主笔。译作有《切尔诺贝利的午夜》《张纯如：无法忘却历史的女子》（曾获第四届中国传记文学奖翻译奖）等。

亚当·希金博特姆（Adam Higginbotham） 1968年生于英国，《纽约客》《连线》《史密森尼》和《纽约时报杂志》主笔。 鲁伊 | 译者 旅居澳大利亚的独立译者。曾任《三联生活周刊》主笔。译作有《切尔诺贝利的午夜》《张纯如：无法忘却历史的女子》（曾获第四届中国传记文学奖翻译奖）等。

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the...(展开全部)

亚当·希金博特姆（Adam Higginbotham） 1968年生于英国，《纽约客》《连线》《史密森尼》和《纽约时报杂志》主笔。 鲁伊 | 译者 旅居澳大利亚的独立译者。曾任《三联生活周刊》主笔。译作有《切尔诺贝利的午夜》《张纯如：无法忘却历史的女子》（曾获第四届中国传记文学奖翻译奖）等。