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)

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)

克里斯蒂安·沃尔玛（Christian Wolmar），英国著名交通事务作家和广播公司评论员。他定期为多家知名出版物撰稿，包括《独立报》《伦敦晚报》和《铁路杂志》，并经常在电视和广播节目作现场评述。沃尔玛尤其擅长铁路史研究，其著作《地下铁路》《火与蒸汽》《铁血和黄金》《战争的发动机》和《铁路大革命》等作品广受好评。

克里斯蒂安·沃尔玛（Christian Wolmar），英国著名交通事务作家和广播公司评论员。他定期为多家知名出版物撰稿，包括《独立报》《伦敦晚报》和《铁路杂志》，并经常在电视和广播节目作现场评述。沃尔玛尤其擅长铁路史研究，其著作《地下铁路》《火与蒸汽》《铁血和黄金》《战争的发动机》和《铁路大革命》等作品广受好评。

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)

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)

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.

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.

费莉希蒂·海斯-麦科伊出生在爱尔兰的都柏林。作为一名撰稿人，她的作品所涉及的领域包括电视和广播戏剧、故事片、纪录片、剧本和改编本，电影剧本，音乐剧本，儿童文学和互动多媒体作品。 她的丈夫威尔弗雷德·贾锝是一名歌剧导演，他们夫妻二人平时居住在爱尔兰的寇卡戴瑞夫尼和伦敦的博蒙德塞区。烹饪，园艺和写作是她最喜欢的事情。 《世界尽头的图书馆》是她的小说处女作。

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)