In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for 4 years, 3 Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary...(展开全部)

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the constructi...(展开全部)

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever bethe same.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever bethe same.

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

Yet that might and that greatness were reduced to a mere show before his long reign terminated; and the Moghul Empire resembled -- to use a familiar image -- one of those Etruscan corpses which, though crowned and armed, are destined to crumble at the breath of heaven or at the touch of human hands. And still more did it resemble some splendid palace.

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作者： 唐纳德•卡根（Donald Kagan），耶鲁大学史特林讲席荣休教授，美国国家人文奖章获得者，曾任耶鲁学院院长。卡根教授是西方古典学界修昔底德学与伯罗奔尼撒战争研究方面的泰斗，著有“伯罗奔尼撒战争史论”四卷（《伯罗奔尼撒战争的爆发》《阿奇达慕斯战争》《尼基阿斯和约与西西里远征》《雅典帝国的覆亡》），以及《论战争之源起与和平之存续》《伟大的对话：从荷马到波里比乌斯的古希腊政治思想史》《雅典的伯利克里与民主的诞生》《修昔底德：再造历史》等。同时，卡根教授也是美国外交政策的积极批评者，是罗伯特•卡根等人所创立的新保守主义智库“新美国世纪计划”成立宣言的最早签署人之一，并著有《当美利坚沉睡》，他的研究、教学、评论对美国对外政策产生了深刻影响。 译者： 李隽旸，中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所助理研究员， 毕业于中国人民大学，获得法学博士学位，研究方...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)