出版社：Yale University Press 出版日期：7 Octubre 2008 语种：英语 页数：284 ISBN：978-0300143324 尺寸：21.4 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm 以上信息均为网络信息，仅供参考，具体以实物为准
The fifteenth-century codex commonly known as the ?Voynich Manu*? is often considered the world?s most mysterious book. Written in an unknown * by an unknown author, the manu* has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfred Voynich. The book?s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. For the first time, this facsimile allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind ?Voynichese? text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. ? The essays that accompany the manu* explain what we have learned about this work?from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical perspectives?but provide few definitive answers. Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book ?invites the reader to join us at the heart of the m
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England 作者：Dan Jones 出版社: Penguin Books; Revised (2014年3月25日) 平装: 560页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0143124927 条形码: 9780143124924 商品尺寸: 14 x 2.8 x 21.3 cm 商品重量: 431 g 内容简介 The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain s greatest and worst dynasty a real-life Game of Thrones (The Wall Street Journal) From the author of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard t
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion ofmainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. Forseventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemedthe birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a singlegeneration, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancientkingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire whichstretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result ofthose conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on theplanet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largestexpeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainlandmanaged to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remainedfree. Had the Greeks been defeated at Salamis, not only would theWest have lost its first struggle for independence and survival,but it is unlikely that there would ever have been such and entityas the West at all. Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes thevery first 'clash of Empires' between East and West. Once again hehas
Winner of the "Spear's" Best Business Book Award Longlisted for the 2012 "Financial Times" and Goldman SachsBusiness Book of the Year Award For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt.Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we findourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have atime-worn place in our economic history. As with the crises in the1930s and 1970s, governments will fall, currencies will lose theirvalue, and new systems will emerge. Just as Britain set the termsof the international system in the nineteenth century, and Americain the twentieth century, a new system will be set by today'screditors in China and the Middle East. In the process, rich willbe pitted against poor, young against old, public sector workersagainst taxpayers and one country against another. In "Paper Promises," Economist columnist Philip Coggan helps usto understand the origins of this mess and how it will affect thenew global economy by explaining how
