有关苯教的宇宙观、其世界相、世界的构造及其位置、神袛及人类起源神话及其繁衍、各氏族的始祖及派系与其分布情况、地域的分布、各氏族的风俗文化及其起源、外国的列举及其地理、应用一些重要的历史书书名、有关苯教的重要人物、受到佛教影响的痕迹等等。从另一个角度来看，它是一本西藏文学史及民族风俗史上也具有研究价值的宝贵古文献。跟《卓浦文献》比较起来，《黑头凡人的起源》显得一样重要，是不可缺少的一本研究西藏历史等的重要古文献。《苯教古文献之汉译及其研究》作者金东柱以融会哲学、宗教、历史与文献学的方法来研究此文献，显得新颖、完整和全面，很有见地。
《格瓦拉日记》是格瓦拉以古巴现实，文化，特性和政治现实为基础而慢慢写就的手资料。虽然这些在时间写下的文字只是主观而不完整的记述，无法展现那段历史的全景，但切对诸多历史事件和历史人物的描写，却无比真实的反映出他在古巴人民争取自由的斗争中所肩负的责任和付出的努力。
At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achievingpeace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morrisexplodes the myths cherished by both sides to present an epichistory of Zionist-Arab relations over the past 120 years. Tracing the roots of political Zionism back to the pogroms ofRussia and the Dreyfus Affair, Morris describes the gradual influxof Jewish settlers into Palestine and the impact they had on theArab population. Following the Holocaust, the first Arab-Israeliwar of 1948 resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel,but it also shattered Palestinian Arab society and gave rise to amassive refugee problem. Morris offers distinctive accounts of eachof the subsequent Israeli-Arab wars and details the sporadic peaceefforts in between, culminating in the peace process initiated bythe Rabin Government. In a new afterword to the Vintage edition, heexamines Ehud Barak’s leadership, the death of President Assad ofSyria, and Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the recent re
Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on hisyears with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays onIndian history, culture, art, politics, language, andphilosophy.
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A derangedactor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre,escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he methis fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteriathat followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of thosewere executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classicelements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even morefascinating. Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremostLincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to adeeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account ofthe Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array ofarchival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on thebackground and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of hisplot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates ofthe conspirators. Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects commonmisperceptions and analy
It is fair to say that Tom Mathews’s relations with hisfather, a veteran of World War II’s fabled 10th Mountain Division,were terrible. He came back from the war to a young son he’d barelymet and proceeded to bully and browbeat him—for his own good, hethought. In the course of puzzling out almost fifty years ofintermittent conflict, Mathews came to understand that theirproblems were not simply personal, they were generational—andwidely shared by millions of other baby boomer sons. And so, towrite this powerful book, which traces the kinetic effect of thewar on the men who fought it, their sons, and their grandsons,Mathews has uncovered nine other dramatic and telling father-sontales of veterans in some ways missing in action and how internalwar wounds shaped their lives as fathers. These include a combatinfantryman whose life was saved by the fabled Audie Murphy, and ablack member of the storied Tuskegee Airmen corps. In a movingfinal chapter, he and his father return together to Italy torevisit sc
In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinationsof high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" wereGiovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates whohad been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in theaftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrestedand the government that ad protected them for nearly half a centurywas at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tellswith such insight and immediacy in Excellent Cadavers .Combining a profound understanding of his doomed heroes with andunprecedented look into the Mafia's stringent codes and murderousrivalries, he gives us a book that has the power of a great work ofhistory and the suspense of a true thriller. "Riveting...a well-paced and highly informative account stockedwith well-drawn characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Masterful...[Stille] delivers a stiletto-sharp portrait of thebloodthirsty Sicilian mafia."--Business Week
In this luminous portrait of wartime Washington, Ernest B.Furgurson–author of the widely acclaimed Chancellorsville1863 , Ashes of Glory , and Not War butMurder --brings to vivid life the personalities and events thatanimated the Capital during its most tumultuous time. Here amongthe sharpsters and prostitutes, slaves and statesmen are detectiveAllan Pinkerton, tracking down Southern sympathizers; poet WaltWhitman, nursing the wounded; and accused Confederate spy AntoniaFord, romancing her captor, Union Major Joseph Willard. Here aregenerals George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant, railroad crew bossAndrew Carnegie, and architect Thomas Walter, striving to finishthe Capitol dome. And here is Abraham Lincoln, wrangling withofficers, pardoning deserters, and inspiring the nation. FreedomRising is a gripping account of the era that transformedWashington into the world’s most influential city.
The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity.After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home,approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. Anunassuming English chaplain first proposed a symbolic burial inmemory of all the missing dead; subsequently the idea was picked upby almost every combatant country. Acclaimed author Neil Hanson focuses on the lives of threesoldiers — an Englishman, a German, and an American — using theirdiaries and letters to offer an unflinching yet compassionateaccount of the front lines. He describes how each man endurednearly unbearable conditions, skillfully showing how the Westernworld arrived at the now time-honored way of mourning and payingtribute to all those who die in war.
Much has been written about the west—most of it clouded byexaggeration and fabrication. Since 1953, True West magazine hasbeen devoted to celebrating the West’s true colors, giving the menand women who settled there accurate voices, exploring everytriumph and tragedy of their time—and exposing every vice andvirtue. True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West commemorates theseunforgettable cowboys, Indians, and city slickers through a mix ofclassic histories and brand-new narratives, all illustrated withphotographs—many reproduced here for the first time—of the peopleand places that gave rise to America’s Western mythology. With twenty-six stories that blend fact with folklore, thiscollection abounds with accounts of the famous and the infamous,including Sacagawea, Wild Bill Hickok, Pancho Villa, Butch Cassidyand the Sundance Kid, Davy Crockett, and Wyatt Earp. Also here arelesser-known figures whose stories were pivotal to shaping theculture of the era, such as European conq
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the CivilWar, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lostits philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” withits seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance andperspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as amore cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, inthe course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to aninternational power. This great wave of historical and culturalreciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified duringthe late 1800s, brought with it some larger-than-lifepersonalities, as the lure of unknown foreign cultures promptedpilgrimages back and forth across the Pacific. In The Great Wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knitgroup of nineteenth-century travelers—connoisseurs, collectors, andscientists—who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving OldJapan. As Benfey writes, “A sense of urgency impelled them, forthe
In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellowparatroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” forthe duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountainsoutside Naples. In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to preparefor the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the FifthArmy commander, requested that the division’s 504th ParachuteInfantry Regiment, Maggie’s outfit, stay behind for a daring newoperation that would outflank the Nazis’ stubborn defensive linesand open the road to Rome. On 22 January 1944, Megellas and therest of the 504th landed across the beach at Anzio. Followinginitial success, Fifth Army’s amphibious assault, OperationShingle, bogged down in the face of heavy German counterattacksthat threatened to drive the Allies into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Anzioturned into a fiasco, one of the bloodiest Allied operations of thewar. Not until April were the remnants of the regiment withdrawnand shipped to England to r
William Cody (1846—1917), a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, was the mostfamous American of his age. A child of the frontier Great Plains,Cody was renowned as a Pony Express rider, prospector, trapper,Civil War soldier, professional buffalo hunter, Indian fighter,cavalry scout, horseman, dime-novel hero, and actor. But BuffaloBill’s greatest success was as impresario of the Wild West show,the traveling company of cowboys, Indians, Mexican vaqueros, andothers, numbering in the hundreds, with which he toured NorthAmerica and Europe for more than three decades. As Louis S. Warrenreveals, the show company came to represent America itself, itsdazzling mix of races sprung from a frontier past, welded into athrilling performance, and making their way through the world viathe modern technologies of railroad, portable electrical generator,telephones, and brilliantly colored publicity–an entrancing visionof the frontier-born, newly mechanized, polyglot United States inthe Gilded Age. Biographers have long disputed whether Co
Casting Robert Louis Stevenson as his protagonist, Alberto Manguel, author of the international best seller A History of Reading, spins an intoxicating murder mystery in the South Pacific that echoes Joseph Conrad A. S. Byatt,and the psychological underpinnings of Stevensons own work. Robert Louis Stevenson has become accustomed to the intense colors and severe humidity of Samoa, as well as the uninhibited sensuality of its people. Yet his thoughts turn nostalgically back to his native Edinburgh after a chance encounter with the newly arrived Scots missionary, Mr. Baker, whose religious invectives challenge Stevenson loosening moral code. And when a young Samoan woman is raped and brutally murdered—someone for whom Stevenson privately pined—the once idyllic island erupts into a barely controlled insurgency.With a creeping sense of both dread and suspense as well as a playful nod to Stevenson own persona and imagination, Alberto Manguel has weaved together a compelling tale in the sultry South Pacific
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voicescoming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and humanrights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for thefirst time his profound and provocative journey as an exile. In September 1973, the military took power inChile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president SalvadorAllende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is thestory of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfmanportrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, thepersonal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations fromBuenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet’s death squads, to safehouses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, hischildhood home. And then, seventeen years after he was forced toleave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginableoutcome. The toll on Dorfman’s wife and two sons, the "earthquakeof language" that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning ofhis allegiance
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of theCivil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. Thisnon-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with thevoices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmictrail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary footsoldiers. Includes essays by distinguished historians of theera.
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My lucky star is a house?and an imaginary one at that. Rockwell Kent drew it, one day, sitting in my office, and it was adopted forthwith as a trade mark for our publishing firm. We called it Random House because we said we were going to publish anything under the sun that came along?if we liked it well enough. That was in 1928. We?re trying to make the star burn a little brighter each year.? Bennett Cerf -- Review
