A groundbreaking historical account of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering―it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale n...(展开全部)

Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving v...(展开全部)

This new and exciting publication from seasoned historian and author Bryan Perrett charts the ups and downs of the German army from the days of Frederick the Great to the dying days of World War Two. It passes through the Napoleonic period, takes in the growth of war machinery under the leadership of Clausewitz and Moltke and acquaints the reader with the various victories won ...(展开全部)

An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”—Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary ...(展开全部)

瓦科拉夫•斯米尔（Vaclav Smil），马尼托巴大学终身名誉教授，曾在2010年被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志评选为“全球百位思想家”。他研究的领域涉猎广泛，并作跨学科研究，包括能源、环境、食品、人口、经济、历史和公共政策等。他还将这些方法应用到研究中国的能源、食品和环境问题上。 瓦科拉夫•斯米尔曾在能源、环境、粮食和技术发展史等领域出版了30多本专著，其中包括MIT出版社出版的《全球化的原动机：柴油机和蒸汽涡轮机的历史和影响》（Prime Movers of Globalization：The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines）和《生物圈的丰收：我们从自然界拿走了什么》（Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Ta...(展开全部)

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain,...(展开全部)

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)