A STUDY OF THE EARLY LITERATURES ON THE SILK ROAD是同作者《早期丝绸之路文献研究》一书的英文版，是作者对早期丝绸之路考证研究的专着。 《早期丝绸之路文献研究》对东方和西方的有关丝绸之路的古代文献资料进行了细致的考证、研究，求得不同语种文献的相互印证，从而确认古代东西交流的史实。全书分上卷、下卷、附卷三部分，对于《穆天子传》、《西域图记》、《历史》、《地理志》等中外古籍均有详实的考证和独到的比较研究。

he day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American boy by U.S. cavalry troopers. Before it ended, all of those troopers and their commander, George Armstrong Custer, lay dead on the battlefield of the Little Big Horn the worst defeat ever inflicted by Native Americans on the U.S. military. Now, the full story of that dramatic day, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath are told by the only ones who survived to recount it the Native Americans. Based on the author s twenty-two years of research, and on the oral testimony of seventy-two Native American eyewitnesses, Custer s Fall is both a superbly skillful weaving of many voices into a gripping narrative fabric, and a revelatory reconstruction that stands as the definitive version of the battle that became a legend and only now emerges as it really was.

Now in paperback—the “amazing”( James Bradley, New York Timesbestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers) never-before-told storyof the greatest escape of the Second World War. In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmentrapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over halfa century for political reasons, the full account of thisunforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is nowbeing told for the first time.

When it opened in 1875, the Kaiserhof hotel was the epitome ofmodernity. The opulent hotel was one of Berlin's most fashionableresorts, the haunt of aristocrats and rich holidaymakers. In 1930,Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels used the Kaiserhof as the NaziParty headquarters. In 1946, the hotel, like much of bombed-outBerlin, was a hollow ruin. In 1975, on the spot where the grandhotel once stood, the North Korean embassy was erected, anarchitectural eyesore of appalling vulgarity. Berlin chartsdramatically the changing face of one of the twentieth century'smost fascinating cities at three crucial periods of itshistory. Berlin presents the buildings and structures of historicaland architectural interest which have been affected by events ofthe twentieth century: government buildings and grand hotels, cafesand department stores, theaters and railway stations can be seenfrom the same angle at three different points in time. Some of thestructures have vanished completely; some were restored after

位于安徽省南部黟县。该县境内层恋叠翠、溪涧回流，由于交通相对封闭，至今仍然保留了大量完整的明（1368-1644）清（1644-1911）时代的古民居，西递、宏村是其中的代表。 宏村始建于南宋绍兴年间（公1131-1162）。有特色的明永乐年间（1403-1424）兴建的遍布全村的人工水系，家家门前有清泉，至今仍为村民日常使用。西递是聚族而居的古村落，村中街巷曲折，幽深多变，黑瓦白墙的民居错落其间，村范周围是树木溪流，景致如画。

More populous than any other country on earth, China alsooccupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity ofits history and culture. In this sumptuously illustratedsingle-volume history, now in its second edition, noted historianPatricia Buckley Ebrey traces the origins of Chinese culture fromprehistoric times to the present. She follows its development fromthe rise of Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperialdynasties to the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions and themodern communist state. Her scope is phenomenal - embracing Chinesearts, culture, economics, society and its treatment of women,foreign policy, emigration, and politics, including the keyuprisings of 1919 and 1989 in Tiananmen Square. Both acomprehensive introduction to an extraordinary civilization and anexpert exploration of the continuities and disjunctures of Chinesehistory, Professor Ebrey's book has become an indispensable guideto China past and present. This second edition includes a newchapter on China's rece

James Reasoner has been praised for his well-researched andlively, suspenseful novels. Now, he proves that truth can be evenmore exciting than fiction. Known for his ability to make historycome vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legendsand Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old Westreally lived, killed-and were killed. Among the true stories hebrings us

The Marines? march up to Baghdad, Sherman?s trail of destructionin Georgia, an army of Missouri volunteers trekking across theGreat Plains to Mexico?this wide-ranging and imaginative book tellsfor the first time the story of how American armies from the sandsof Iraq to the halls of the Montezuma have followed figuratively inthe footsteps of the original Anabasis, the famous Greek march intothe interior of Asia made by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand in 400BC. Starting with the Iraq War, Tim Rood turns back to the conquest ofthe American West and to the Civil War, showing how one of the mostfamous episodes in classical antiquity was first appropriated inthe name of military expansion, and then used to expressconflicting responses to the most controversial campaign of theCivil War. Allusions to Xenophon in speeches, newspaper reports,and military memoirs are throughout read against Xenophon?s ownstory.

"Sartre is a true post-colonial pioneer. His ethical and political struggle against all forms of oppression and exploitation speak to the problems of our own times with a rare courage and cogency." Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature Harvard University Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's conduct in Algeria, and by extension, the West's conduct in the Third World in general. The tussle is not equal, and the western imperialists emerge at the end, bloody, bruised and thoroughly chastened. Most startling of all is Sartre's advocacy of violence as a legitimate response to repression, motivated by his belief that freedom was the central characteristic of being human. Whether one agrees with his every con

Here in a single volume are the documents, speeches and lettersthat have forged American history, accompanied by interpretationsof their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D.Heffner. The book includes the complete text of the Declaration ofIndependence, the complete Constitution of the United States, theEmancipation Proclamation, FDR's ""Four Freedoms"" speech, JFK'sinaugural address, Martin Luther King's ""I Have a Dream"" speech,documents relating to 9/11 and Barack Obama's inauguraladdress.

Alf Evers, who completed this work months shy of his 100thbirthday, was perhaps the foremost chronicler of the history andcolor of the Hudson Valley region. Inhabited by Indians sincepre-history, colonized by Dutch traders in the seventeenth century,oppressed by British Colonial rule, and an important locus ofaction during the American Revolution, Kingston was also the homeof progressive thinkers in the late nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. A fascinating history told by the region's mostdistinguished historian, Kingston will delight all readers ofAmerican history and Americana.

This series depicts worldwide events of the twentieth century in a novel way. Fascinating black-and-white photographs from the Getty Images collection put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewersa?? eyes. The force of wars and political conflicts is just as important a theme in these comprehensive volumes as world-shaking innovations in science and technology. These are accompanied by portraits of great personalities in art, politics, and society. The lives of everyday people with their (at the time) common and not-so-common curiosities also comprise an extensive part of each book: sailing on roller skates in 1929, painted-on nylon stockings in 1947, or a dry cleanera??s where the charge for miniskirts varies according to their length.

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian armyto victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the mostsuccessful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no otherindividual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries,Alexander himself remains an enigma. Curtius' History offers agreat deal of information unobtainable from other sources of thetime. A compelling narrative of a turbulent era, the work recountsevents on a heroic scale, detailing court intrigue, stirringspeeches and brutal battles - among them, those of Macedonia'sgreat war with Persia, which was to culminate in Alexander's finaltriumph over King Darius and the defeat of an ancient and mightyempire. It also provides by far the most plausible and hauntingportrait of Alexander we possess: a brilliantly realized image of aman ruined by constant good fortune in his youth.

位于山东省曲阜市，孔子的家乡。 孔子（前551-前479）是中国伟大的思想家、教育家、他创立的儒家学说，两千多年一直为历代统治者所推崇。 孔庙是孔子在死后第二年在其旧居基础上改建的祭祀庙字。此后，后代帝王不断对之进行扩建，仿皇宫建筑之制，规模宏大，前后九进院落，有建筑物466间，文物收藏异常丰富。 孔林的孔子及其后裔的家族墓地，至今延续使用了2400多年。在2平方公里的陵区内，有历代墓葬10余万座、碑刻400多块、古树2万余株，是中国规模*、保存完整的家庭墓地。 孔府是孔子直系后裔的住宅，始建于宋宝元年间（1038-1040），经历代扩建，占地增至16万平方米，由大小几十个院落组成，建筑古朴精致。

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius wasthe Empire's official chronicler, and his "History of the Wars ofJustinian" proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor'sreign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a verydifferent - and dangerous - history to be published only once itsauthor was safely in his grave. "The Secret History" portrays the'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption andtyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and thebrilliant general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his schemingwife Antonina. Magnificently hyperbolic and highly opinionated,"The Secret History" is a work of explosive energy, depicting holyByzantium as a hell of murder and misrule.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter examines the truehistory of the discord between Israel and Palestine with surprisingresults Though the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict have traditionallybeen traced to the British Mandate (1920-1948) that ended with thecreation of the Israeli state, a new generation of scholars hastaken the investigation further back, to the Ottoman period. Thefirst popular account of this key era, Jerusalem 1913 showsus a cosmopolitan city whose religious tolerance crumbled beforethe onset of Z ionism and its corresponding nationalism on bothsides-a conflict that could have been resolved were it not for theonset of World War I. With extraordinary skill, Amy Dockser Marcusrewrites the story of one of the world's most indelibledivides.

To help you get the most out of your course, A History of Western Society, Fifth Guide. The Study Guide contains key terms and concepts, sample test questions, understanding history through the arts, map exercises, and problems for further manager about how to obtain this valuable resource.

Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome'sRepublic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literaryand oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been apowerful influence on European literature and thought for over twothousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith. Thisselection demonstrates the diversity of his writings, and includesletters to friends and statesmen on Roman life and politics; thevitriolic Second Philippic Against Antony; and, his two most famousphilosophical treatises, "On Duties" and "On Old Age" - acelebration of his own declining years. Written at a time of brutalpolitical and social change, Cicero's lucid ethical writings formedthe foundation of the Western liberal tradition in political andmoral thought that continues to this day.

Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to amaniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of herown making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband -until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape. Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigatorJackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startlingconnections and discoveries emerge . . .

As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than onGeorge Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americansduring World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on thedangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced fromJosef Stalin.

In the wake of Lonuis WIV's death,France's governm teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.Enter the reformern in the unlikely guise of John Law-a supremely charming and attractive Scot whose brilliant financial mind had thus far served only to make himself rich at the gaming talbles. In one of the great image makovers of all gime,John Lam recharged a devastated French Economy,making him one of the most successful men in Europe.When Law founded a New World reports of the riches to be made in France's vast holdings in America sent the price of its shares throuth the roof.Investors drunk o dreams of instant wealth gave birth to the first boom-and-bust cycle-one that created such vast wealth for shareholders that a new term was coined to describe them…millionaires. 作者简介：JANET GLEESON,anthor of The Arcanum,has worked in the Impressionist Paintings Department at Sotheby's was an art and antiques correspondent for House Garden for seven years,and has written for The Antiques Collector and many other