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《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。

自周秦汉唐以来，西安地区曾经埋葬了许多帝王将相，有人曾以“东方帝王谷”相称，这些陵墓见证了沧海桑田，也留下了历史的斑斑印记。其中著名的有黄帝陵、秦始皇陵、汉阳陵、汉茂陵、汉杜陵、唐昭陵、唐乾陵等。此外，还有大量的历史名人墓，如扁鹊墓、白起墓、霍去病墓、董仲舒墓、魏徵墓、上官婉儿墓、郭子仪墓、杨贵妃墓等。即使在两宋、明清时期，西安也有不少名人墓，如寇准墓、张载墓、明秦王墓群、李柏墓、王鼎墓等。 《历代陵墓/西安小史丛书》主要围绕着这些陵墓，对其地理方位、墓葬特点、人物故事，包括陵墓园区内的石质雕塑的艺术特点等，都进行了较为详尽的介绍。

The successor to theauthor's Eyewitness to America gathers together two hundredsnippets from the diaries, letters, memoirs, and reporting ofwitnesses to the settlement of the West, from Balboa to GeorgiaO'Keeffe. Reprint.

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club toinvestigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial northof England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate theemployed as well-”to see the most typical section of the Englishworking class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz.

Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of theRoman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the moststirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer,he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocraticcircles that controlled the Roman state, and became renowned forhis speaking to the Assembly, Senate and courtrooms. Whetherfighting corruption, quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defendingthe poet Archias or railing against Mark Antony in the Philippics -the magnificent arguments in defence of liberty which led to hisbanishment and death - Cicero's speeches are oratory masterpieces,vividly evocative of the cut and thrust of Roman politicallife.

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples wasan immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically newinterpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinaryimpact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--ofdisease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox asmuch as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to thetyphoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the historyof humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s,another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, whichWilliam McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updatedediton. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinatingas it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "Abrilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (KirkusReviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective onhuman history.

What happens to Old World memories in a New World order?Svetlana Boym opens up a new avenue of inquiry: the study ofnostalgia.. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, andhistorical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces ofcollective nostalgia that connect national biography and personalself-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us throughthe ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St.Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelandsof exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. FromJurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravelsthe threads of this global epidemic of longing and itsantidotes.

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.

“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it haseverything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is animpressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched accountof the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modernEuropean history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumablydefeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins ofhis toppled empire. Major questions loomed: What would be done withFrance? How were the newly liberated territories to be divided?What type of restitution would be offered to families of thedeceased? But this unprecedented gathering of kings, dignitaries,and diplomatic leaders unfurled a seemingly endless stream ofpersonal vendettas, long-simmering feuds, and romanticentanglements that threatened to undermine the crucial work athand, even as their hard-fought policy dec

The Battle ofNormandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had everseen. Millions of soldiers struggling for the control of Europewere thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike anyexperienced in history. But this greatest of clashes would prove tobe the crucible in which the outcome of World War II would bedecided. It began on D-Day. June 6, 1944-the day that the Allied Forceslaunched Operation Overlord: the great crusade to free Europe fromthe iron grip of Nazi Germany. But only when the troops were ashoredid the real battle begin. With Nazi defenders marshaling to stop the invaders, Hitler and hisgenerals schemed to counterattack. Tightly constricted hedgerowcountry and bitter German resistance held the Allied advance to acrawl. Suddenly the Allies broke through and trapped the Naziarmies. Yet within weeks of this stunning disaster, the Germanssmashed the most dangerous Allied offensive yet. How was this possible? In Normandy Crucible , noted authorJohn Prados offers a penetrating acco

Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grandhistory of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemedhistorians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all ofEurope, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages tosweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years ofpolitical and cultural change—all in one integrated, enthrallingnarrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read,thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. * A Time and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book ofthe Year * Maps, photos, and cartoons throughout

This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of KingHarald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to hisfinal assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before theinvasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to hisdeath and marked the end of an era in which Europe had beendominated by the threat of Scandinavian forces. Despite England'striumph, it also played a crucial part in fatally weakening theEnglish army immediately prior to the Norman Conquest, changing thecourse of history. Taken from the Heimskringla Snorri Sturluson'scomplete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 this is abrilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage deathof the last great Norse warrior-king.

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.

From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes amagnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, whenSpain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written arich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder.At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French andexpanded the Spanish empire, and the bold conquistadors who werehis agents. Thomas brings to life King Charles V—first as a ganglyand easygoing youth, then as a liberal statesman who exceeded allhis predecessors in his ambitions for conquest (while making sureto maintain the humanity of his new subjects in the Americas), andfinally as a besieged Catholic leader obsessed with Protestantheresy and interested only in profiting from those he presidedover. The Golden Empire also presents the legendary men whom KingCharles V sent on perilous and unprecedented expeditions: HernánCortés, who ruled the “New Spain” of Mexico as an absolutemonarch—and whose rebuilding of its capital, Tenochti

With striking visuals from the Library of Congress'unparalleled archive, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ILLUSTRATED TIMELINEOF THE CIVIL WAR is an authoritative and engaging narrative of thedomestic conflict that determined the course of American history. Adetailed chronological timeline of the war captures the harrowingintensity of 19th-century warfare in first-hand accounts fromsoldiers, nurses, and front-line journalists. Readers will beenthralled by speech drafts in Lincoln's own hand, quotes from thelikes of Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee, and portraits of keysoldiers and politicians who are not covered in standard textbooks.The Illustrated Timeline's exciting new source material and lucidorganization will give Civil War enthusiasts a fresh look at thisdefining period in our nation's history.

《唐史演义》为章回体历史演义小说，是蔡东藩《中国历史通俗演义》丛书中唐代部分。本书共一百回，讲述了李渊父子起兵进驻长安、大唐王朝一统天下、贞观之治、武则天代唐立周、开元盛世和安史之乱以及中唐时期的宦官专权、藩镇割据、黄巢起义、唐朝灭亡等，煌煌三百年历史。本版特对原著部分内容做了白话改译，较其他版本更适合青少年阅读。

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.