35 of Europe's most stunning mseums, little-known and well-known, are brought together in one pulication by the quality of the collections.

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great...(展开全部)

Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)

Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)

These are the stories that made Europe.Journeying from Turkey to Iceland, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through the continent's most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times, and how they have since shaped us. The great European epics were all inspired by moments of seismic change: The Odyssey tells of th...(展开全部)

Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most...(展开全部)

Who works for the government and why does their work matter? Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short and The Fifth Risk, along with an all-star team of writers and storytellers, takes us on a riveting journey into a hidden world The government is a vast, complex system that citizens pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resou...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。

作者简介 拉姆齐•缪尔（Ramsay Muir ，1872—1941），英国著名历史学家，自由党派政治家、思想家，提倡相互依赖的国际关系，一生著述颇丰，代表作有《帝国之道：欧洲扩张400年》《英帝国诸邦史》《政治与进步》等。 译者简介 许磊，安徽大学外语学院教师，博士，主要从事文学翻译实践与研究。代表译作有《情不可挡》《巴尔卡尼亚浴室》《元散曲英译》等。 傅悦，安徽大学外语学院教师，博士，主要从事文学翻译实践与研究。代表译作有《男孩特工全书》《元散曲英译》等。 万世长，安徽大学外语学院教师，主要从事专门用途英语翻译实践与研究。代表译作包括《空战的历史》《罗马尼亚简史》《元散曲英译》等。

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。