《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。

《中国宫殿史（修订本）》是在原版的基础上增补和修订而成的，该书选用新材料，吸纳新成果，求真求实，探索中国宫殿的发展轨迹，为我们展示了一幅中国宫殿的新画卷。全书共分10个章节，具体内容包括传说时代的宫室及夏商宫殿、周秦的都城与宫殿、两汉宫室、魏晋南北朝的都城与宫殿、隋唐宫殿等。《中国宫殿史》曾于1995年在初版，迄今已十余年了。十余年来。有关的文物考古材料又有新的发现，其研究成果亦堪称丰硕。

《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。

录:国民党抗日殉国将士名单，击毙日军将领名单，日军缴械情形一览表?等

录:国民党抗日殉国将士名单，击毙日军将领名单，日军缴械情形一览表?等

《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。

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field,which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution overthe last three decades but never loses contact with the older,classic questions that we have been arguing about for over twohundred years.” -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousnessthat gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of theUnited States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution.He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the UnitedStates, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values ofthe American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-ourcommitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being ofordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era.Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americansthat they were a special people with a special destiny to lead theworld toward liberty.

Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, thesinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brotherRichard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murdermysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill “thePrinces in the Tower,” as is commonly believed, or was the murderersomeone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred ofcontemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, AlisonWeir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the doublemurder. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, andstruggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of theprinces and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard’s claim tothe throne as Richard III. A masterpiece of historical research anda riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in theTower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzzle. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. RandomHouseReadersCircle.com

In late June 2005, media sources recounted the tragic story ofnineteen U.S. special operations personnel who died at the hands ofinsurgent / terrorist leader Ahmad Shah- and the lone survivor ofShah's ambush-deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. Theharrowing events of Operation Red Wings marked an important-yetwidely misreported-chapter in the Global War on Terror, the fulldetails of which the public burned to learn. Victory Point reveals the complete, as-yet untold, storyof Operation Red Wings (often mis-referenced as "OperationRedwing"), and the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers. Together,these two U.S. Marine Corps operations (that in the case of RedWings utilized Navy SEALs for its opening phase) unfurl not as amission gone terribly wrong, but of a complex and difficultcampaign that ultimately saw the demise of Ahmad Shan and his smallarmy of barbarous fighters. Due to the valor, courage, and commitment of the 2nd Battalion ofthe 3rd Marine Regiment in the summer of 2005

Could Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86), the Enlightenment Jewishphilosopher and originator of the Bi’ur (a translation of the Bibleinto German in Hebrew characters), have seen what a Galician-bornJewish artist used for the frontispiece of an illustrated Bible atthe beginning of the twentieth century, he would certainly havebeen shocked and uncomfortable. But whether Ephraim Moses Lilien(1874–1925) was out to stun his audience or was just deeplyengrossed in the art nouveau style is at present of littlesignificance. However, by placing the renowned thinker alongsidethe less-known, erstwhile Zionist artist, we get a fuller view ofthe cultural transformation of West and Central European Jewryduring a century and a half. Jewish sensibilities and concerns wereradically transposed as the engagement with a panoply of culturalorientations superseded earlier pinnacles of Jewish integration,such as Muslim Spain. Even the Bible, the Old Testament, thetouchstone of Judaism, would be refracted and refashioned in am

In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With theOld Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-centurybattles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitiveoral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimedfirst-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns tothrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of suchheroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledgebecame part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division–3d Battalion,5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to bethrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmareof flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledgehit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled withfear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the NewTestament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity andsearing honesty the experience of a soldier

In Lone Star Nation , Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W.Brands demythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores thegenuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in Americanhistory. From Stephen Austin, Texas’s reluctant founder, to the alcoholicSam Houston, who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisisand glory, to President Andrew Jackson, whose expansionistaspirations loomed large in the background, here is the story ofTexas and the outsize figures who shaped its turbulent history.Beginning with its early colonization in the 1820s and taking inthe shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad,its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches, andits day of liberation as an upstart republic, Brands’ livelyhistory draws on contemporary accounts, diaries, and letters toanimate a diverse cast of characters whose adventures, exploits,and ambitions live on in the very fabric of our nation.

Well established as the premier sports anthology, "The BestAmerican Sports Writing" brings togther the finest writing onsports to appear in the past year. Edited by the award-winning JaneLeavy, author of "Sandy Koufax" and "The Last Boy," the pieces inthis volume embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanityand excitement.

A renowned historian contends "that the Americanwarrior, not technology, wins wars." (Patrick K. O'Donnell, authorof Give Me Tomorrow ) John C. McManus coverssix decades of warfare in which the courage of American troopsproved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Based onyears of archival research and personal interviews with veterans,Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importanceof the human element in protecting the American nation, andadvances a passionate plea for fundamental change in ourunderstanding of war.