《唐风吹拂撒马尔罕:粟特艺术与中国、波斯、印度、拜占庭》是作者康马泰结合主持中亚布哈拉古城考古的挖掘实践及多年研究的心血之作。全书分为四卷——《粟特艺术与中国》《粟特艺术与波斯》《粟特艺术与印度》《粟特艺术与拜占庭》，关于撒马尔罕大使厅壁画上的唐代端午节，中国北朝墓葬中的粟特艺术，粟特信仰与佛教、印度教神祇的关系等，书中都有精彩论述。

In this rich and engrossing account, John and Abigail Adamscome to life against the backdrop of the Republic’s tenuous earlyyears. Drawing on over 1,200 letters exchanged between the couple, Ellistells a story both personal and panoramic. We learn about the manyyears Abigail and John spent apart as John’s political career senthim first to Philadelphia, then to Paris and Amsterdam; theirrelationship with their children; and Abigail’s role as John’sclosest and most valued advisor. Exquisitely researched andbeautifully written, First Family is both a revealing portrait of amarriage and a unique study of America’s early years.

An analysis of the Civil War, drawing on letters and diariesby more than one thousand soldiers, gives voice to the personalreasons behind the war, offering insight into the ideology thatshaped both sides. Reprint. PW.

The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazipolicymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are theproceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, anddoctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture andexecution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg,and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Justice at Dachau, M.Greene, maker of the award winning documentary film Witness: Voicesfrom the Holocaust, recreates the Dachau trials and reveals thedramatic story of William Denson, a soft-spoken young lawyer fromAlabama whisked from teaching law at West Point to leading theprosecution in the largest series of Nazi trials in history. In a makeshift courtroom set up inside Hitler’s firstconcentration camp, Denson was charged with building a team fromlawyers who had no background in war crimes and determining chargesfor crimes that courts had never before confronted. Among theaccused were Dr. Klaus Schilling, responsible for hundreds ofdeaths

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and authorof Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir ofchildhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a fatherwhose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The manwho would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifthchild of the third wife. Even as World War II affected the lives ofAfricans under British colonial rule in particularly unexpectedways, Ngugi spent his childhood as very much the apple of hismother’s eye before attending school to slake what was thenconsidered a bizarre thirst for learning. In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi deftly etches a bygone era,capturing the landscape, the people, and their culture; the socialand political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war; andthe troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middleclass and the rural poor. And he shows how the Mau Mau armedstruggle for Kenya’s independence against the British informed noton

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

In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birthof modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourismto the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems,print media, a national market, and a middle class with money andtime to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First sloganand idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebookpublishers, Western boosters, and Good Roads advocates, shedescribes both the modern marketing strategies used to promotetourism and the messages of patriotism and loyalty embedded in thetourist experience. She shows how tourists as consumersparticipated in the search for a national identity that couldassuage their anxieties about American society and culture. Generously illustrated with images from advertisements,guidebooks, and travelogues, See America First demonstrates thatthe promotion of tourist landscapes and the consumption of touristexperiences were central to the development of an Americanidentity.

A raw, heartfelt story of how a man of valor lost his bearingsand eventually found the courage to share his story. Shadow of theSword leaves you hoping and cheering for the happy ending thatWorkman deserves.—Bing West, author of The Strongest Tribe "In writing this moving and incredibly honest book, Workman showsat least as much courage as he did in Fallujah. His story giveshope to anyone who struggles that they, too, can overcome if theyjust keep fighting—one day at a time, one battle at a time, onevictory at a time."—Donovan Campbell, author of Joker One