The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine enco...(展开全部)

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo’s Ladies’ ...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, "Pyrrhic Victory" is destined to become the stand...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favouring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts ar...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, "Pyrrhic Victory" is destined to become the stand...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favouring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts ar...(展开全部)

保罗•肯尼迪（Paul Kennedy），牛津大学博士，英国皇家历史学会会长，现为美国耶鲁大学历史学教授，重点研究和讲授当代战略和国际关系，是多所大学的客座研究员和客座教授。曾撰写和编辑过10本有关海军史、帝国主义、英德关系、战略和外交等方面的著作。

Written by Jeph Loeb Art and cover by Tim Sale Reoffered to coincide with CATWOMAN: WHEN IN ROME. Written as the sequel to the critically acclaimed BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, this trade paperback continues to the tell the story of an early time in Batman's life when James Gordon, Harvey Dent, and the vigilante himself were all just beginning their roles as Gotham's protectors...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)