《宅兹中国：宝鸡出土青铜器与金文精华》是一部有关陕西鸡宝出土的青铜器与金文的作品，分“吉金文字、交相辉映”“鸿功令德、铭传万世”“天人之际、智慧存焉”三个单元，从人文、历史、艺术、信仰等不同角度解读上古遗存，引导大家走进神秘奇谲、波澜壮阔的青铜器与金文世界，欣赏生动有趣、仪态万方的金文艺术，解读扣人心弦、引人入胜的金文故事，领略格物致知、穷理尽性的金文智慧。
姚广孝是元末明初杰出的佛教人物，与姚广孝相关的历史遗迹，如姚广孝墓塔、天宁寺、汇通祠、永乐大钟、《永乐大典》等，多成为北京乃至全国的重要文物。姚广孝在政治、军事、文学、科技诸方面也有巨大成就，尤以参与策划“靖难之役”、辅佐燕王朱棣夺取帝位而名垂史册，后又拜为明两代帝王之师，成为中国历史上著名的“缁衣宰相”。由郑永华编著的《姚广孝史事研究》通过发掘与利用姚广孝的诗文、著述，以及碑刻、实录、文集等各种原始史料，对姚广孝的生平与交往进行了全面研究，就相关史事进行了详细考辨，更正了长期以来的讹误，为研究姚广孝这一重要的宗教与政治历史人物奠定了基础，具有较大的学术价值。又北京还长期流传许多与姚广孝相关的历史与人文传说，深入研究与北京历史有关的人物、弘扬北京历史文化，对建设“人文北京”
“Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring theAmerican economy after the disastrous contraction of 1929—33. Truthto tell–as Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt–the NewDeal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added tounemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costlygovernment. Powell’s analysis is thoroughly documented, relying onan impressive variety of popular and academic literature bothcontemporary and historical.” – Milton Friedman , Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution “There is a critical and often forgotten difference betweendisaster and tragedy. Disasters happen to us all, no matter what wedo. Tragedies are brought upon ourselves by hubris. The Depressionof the 1930s would have been a brief disaster if it hadn’t been forthe national tragedy of the New Deal. Jim Powell has proventhis.” – P.J. O’Rourke , author of Parliament of Whores and Eat theRich “The material laid out in this book desperat
Known as "the GI's general" and "Lightning Joe," General J.Lawton Collins played no less than a global part in the Alliedvictory of World War II. Here, for the first time, is the story of an American hero andpatriot- a man who earned the admiration of the grunts with whom heshared foxholes and the respect of the highest-ranking generals.Collins was a true leader of men with his iron-clad devotion toduty, his genuine concern for those under his command, and hisseemingly unending drive to defend his nation against allenemies-no matter where the fight took him...
《两个世界的媒介：德国女汉学家口述实录》收录了21位德国女汉学家的口述历史。她们出生子不同的历史年代，历经了各异的时代悲欢，对时代的奔流有着独特而敏锐的感悟；她们都关注中德两国时代场景的巨变，以极具女性特色的视角铭记、解读这段历史。且让我们跟随她们的叙述，品读这一份真实、精彩而又各具特色的历史实录。
《利玛窦》是一个人的传奇，更是一个时代的剪影。十六世纪地理大发现之后.中西文化交流进入了一个全新的时代。一五八三年.意大利传教士利玛窦运用“文化适应”的传教策略，成功地进入了中国内地，从而揭开了明末清初中西文化交流的高潮。《利玛窦》讲述的就是这位传奇人物为了实现他在晚明中国传教的梦想，不断认识、不断适应中国文化的故事。面对当今中西文化交流的诸多困惑，把眼光放长一点，回到利玛窦时代，来重新认识与思考中西文化的异同.这可以让我们用一种历史的、客观的眼光来给传统文化定位，用开放的、发展的眼光来看待文化交流与冲突。
By leading Egyptologist and author, Zahi Hawass, thissumptuous book of rare Egyptian antiquities from the tomb ofTutankhamun and other archaeological sites - many never publishedbefore - showcases the best collection of Egyptian art through theages and recounts the adventures that led to their discovery.Hidden Treasures features rare antiquities that embody the mysteryof the world's oldest and most refined civilisations and will feeda market hungry for the glories of ancient Egypt. The 100-plusartefacts were chosen from thousands stored at the century-oldEgyptian Museum in Cairo and other storehouses all over thecountry. World-famous Egyptologist Zahi Hawass takes the reader onan adventure of discovery, telling the stories of how thesestunning objects were unearthed by archaeologists over the last 150years, then rediscovered in the storehouses where they had beenpacked away for decades. Some have not been seen since HowardCarter and others discovered them. Many have never been featured ina publication
Around 330 b.c., a remarkable adventurer named Pytheas set outfrom the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) on theMediterranean Sea to explore the fabled, terrifying lands ofnorthern Europe. Renowned archaeologist Barry Cunliffe herere-creates Pytheas's unprecedented journey, which occurred almost300 years before Julius Caesar landed in Britain. Beginning with aninvaluable pocket history of early Mediterranean civilization,Cunliffe illuminates what Pytheas would have seen andexperienced-the route he likely took to reach Brittany, thenBritain, Iceland, and Denmark; and evidence of the ancient cultureshe would have encountered on shore. The discoveries Pytheas madewould reverberate throughout the civilized world for years to come,and in recounting his extraordinary voyage, Cunliffe chronicles anessential chapter in the history of civilization.
Tutankhamun has mesmerized the world ever since HowardCarter's dramatic discovery of his treasure-filled tomb in theValley of the Kings in 1922, a fascination fanned anew by thecurrent world tour of the spectacular artifacts buried with him, apriceless trove that casts a spell on everyone who sees them. In this richly illustrated book, Egypt's leading archaeologistchronicles the Boy King and the royal dynasty that bred him. Andwhat a dynasty! Tut's grandfather, the Sun King Amenhotep III,married queen Tiye before they reached their teens, then ruled for40 years. Their heretical son, Akhenaten, abandoned Egypt'spantheon to worship a single god; his wife Nefertiti is stillremembered as one of history's legendary beauties. Tutankhamunascended the throne as a child and died before the age of twenty,but the splendor of his brief reign and the sensational unearthingof his tomb have made him the most famous of all thepharaohs. Zahi Hawass brings these fabled figures and their tumultuous,astonishin
Explores problems of community and the search for a nationalidentity. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
rom one of the great political journalists of our time comes aboldly argued reinterpretation of the central event in ourcollective past--a book that portrays the American Revolution notas a clash of ideologies but as a Machiavellian struggle forpower.
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor DavisHanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreakingaccounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to thetwenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict withour most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing workto date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states ofAthens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in thecollapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrotethe standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has givenreaders throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative.But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronologicalaccount that reflects the political background of the time, thestrategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle inmultifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these eventsecho in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought onland and se
《利玛窦》是一个人的传奇，更是一个时代的剪影。十六世纪地理大发现之后.中西文化交流进入了一个全新的时代。一五八三年.意大利传教士利玛窦运用“文化适应”的传教策略，成功地进入了中国内地，从而揭开了明末清初中西文化交流的高潮。《利玛窦》讲述的就是这位传奇人物为了实现他在晚明中国传教的梦想，不断认识、不断适应中国文化的故事。面对当今中西文化交流的诸多困惑，把眼光放长一点，回到利玛窦时代，来重新认识与思考中西文化的异同.这可以让我们用一种历史的、客观的眼光来给传统文化定位，用开放的、发展的眼光来看待文化交流与冲突。
姚广孝是元末明初杰出的佛教人物，与姚广孝相关的历史遗迹，如姚广孝墓塔、天宁寺、汇通祠、永乐大钟、《永乐大典》等，多成为北京乃至全国的重要文物。姚广孝在政治、军事、文学、科技诸方面也有巨大成就，尤以参与策划“靖难之役”、辅佐燕王朱棣夺取帝位而名垂史册，后又拜为明两代帝王之师，成为中国历史上著名的“缁衣宰相”。由郑永华编著的《姚广孝史事研究》通过发掘与利用姚广孝的诗文、著述，以及碑刻、实录、文集等各种原始史料，对姚广孝的生平与交往进行了全面研究，就相关史事进行了详细考辨，更正了长期以来的讹误，为研究姚广孝这一重要的宗教与政治历史人物奠定了基础，具有较大的学术价值。又北京还长期流传许多与姚广孝相关的历史与人文传说，深入研究与北京历史有关的人物、弘扬北京历史文化，对建设“人文北京”
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has rippedthrough this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur Warof 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of thosesix days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days ofWar, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the firstcomprehensive account of this epoch-making event. Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’sgrasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fastaction on the battlefields and the political shocks thatelectrified the world. Extraordinary personalities—Moshe Dayan andGamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose andtoppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn;daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in amatter of hours. And the balance of power changed—in the MiddleEast and in the world. A towering work of history and anenthral
The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotionalconnection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leadersof “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meachamexplores the fascinating relationship between the two men whopiloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucialfriendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime ministerspending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during thewar) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails,cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places asfar-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran,talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command,their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth andtwenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons ofthe elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, theysavored power. In their
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched throughSanta Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territoriesclaimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “ManifestDestiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battlebetween the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistantrulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness.In Bloodand Thunder , Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history ofthe American conquest of the West. At the center of this sweepingtale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whoseadventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiteratemountain man understood and respected the Western tribes betterthan any other American, yet willingly followed orders that wouldultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanningmore than three decades, this is an essential addition to ourunderstanding of how the West was really won.
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personalstory, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense ofoptimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has givenbirth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as shetries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. Shegoes from job to job–and from man to man. She tries to returnhome–back to Stamps, Arkansas–but discovers that she is no longerpart of that world. Then Maya’s life takes a dramatic turn, and shefaces new challenges and temptations. In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series,Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of herpassionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
A masterpiece o f the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s TheSpanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrativeof one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of thetwentieth century. Revised and updated with significant newmaterial, including new revelations about atrocities perpetratedagainst civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this"definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The NewYork Times ) has been given a fresh face forty years after itsinitial publication in 1961. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomasanalyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, anddogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no otheraccount, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles theevents that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink ofworld war, to divide against itself, bringing into play themachinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, andthe deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side ofdemocracy. Communists, an
2003年10月，蒋介石夫人宋美龄在美国纽约以106岁高龄寿终正寝，在中国近代史上占有重要地位的蒋氏家族也从此结束了曾经有过的辉煌和显赫。但是，与蒋家有关的大事却并没有终止。诸如宋美龄身后留下了什么？她临终前究竟有没有立下遗嘱？这位曾经的“第一夫人”有多少遗产？她的大批遗物如何万里迢迢秘密运回台湾？蒋介石和蒋经国的灵柩为什么迟迟不能人土为安？保存在蒋家后人手中的蒋介石日记、蒋经国日记为什么存放在美国胡佛研究院？又是怎样对公众开放的？曾作为蒋介石官邸的草山行馆为何化为灰烬……本书以大量鲜为人知的资料，首次揭开了宋美龄身后发生的一系列重大事件的内幕隐情。
The fascinating story of a lost city and anunprecedented American civilization While Mayanand Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relativelyfew people are familiar with the largest prehistoric NativeAmerican city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketatbrings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost athousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi Rivernear what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plazaand known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention ofgenerations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence ofcomplex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands,and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on thesefascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishingnarrative of prehistoric America.
