《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。

《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。

The remarkable life of Alexander the Great, one of thegreatest military geniuses of all time, vividly told by one of theworld's leading exp erts in Greek history. With all theintensity, insight, and narrative drive that made The Spartans sucha hit with critics and readers, Paul Cartledge's Alexander theGreat: glowingly illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander(356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, andfounder of a new world order. Cartledge, the distinguished scholarand historian long acknowledged as the leading internationalauthority on ancient Sparta and Greece, brilliantly evokesAlexander's remarkable political and military accomplishments,leads us along the geographical path of his victorious armies, andcompellingly charting the tremendous field of this warrior hero'sinfluence. Alexander's legacy has had an astounding impact onmilitary tacticians, scholars, and statesmen—in his own lifetimeand in ours. In various countries and at various times he has beenseen as

For two weeks in 1861, Washington, D.C., was locked in a stateof panic. Would the newly formed Confederate States of Americalaunch its first attack on the Union by capturing the nationscapital? Would Lincolns Union fall before it had a chance to fight?Wedged between Virginia and Marylandtwo states bordering onsecessionWashington was isolated; its communications lines werecut, its rail lines blocked. Newly recruited volunteers were toofew and were unable to enter the city. A recently inauguratedLincoln struggled to form a plandefense or attack? In this finalchapter of his trilogy on the Civil War, David Detzer pulls thedrama from this pivotal moment in American history straight fromthe pages of diaries, letters, and newspapers. With an eye fordetail and an ear for the voices of average citizens, hebeautifully captures the tense, miasmic atmosphere of these firstchaotic days of war.

“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.

With Mussolini ’s Italy , R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremostscholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to lifethe period in which Italians participated in one of the twentiethcentury’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascistswere the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence andobedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s firstamong them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted itsideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism fromtaking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle ofstruggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account ofItaly’s darkest hour.

Containing over 120 combat photographs- including shots of theflag-raising by other photographers-quotes from survivors,newspapers and magazines, battle reports and Medal of Honorcitations, here is a grunt's eye view of the bloodiest battle inU.S. Marine Corps history. It also recounts "the photograph's"enduring legacy in popular culture, and reveals the fates of theflag raisers- men who became a fixture in their country'shistory.

John Keegan, whose many books, including classic histories ofthe two world wars, have confirmed him as the premier miltaryhistorian of our time, here presents a masterly look at the valueand limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerableendeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraphand radio, information often traveled no faster than a horse couldride, yet intelligence helped defeat Napoleon. In the twentiethcentury, photo analysts didn’t recognize Germany’s V-2 rockets forwhat they were; on the other hand, intelligence helped lead tovictory over the Japanese at Midway. In Intelligence inWar , John Keegan illustrates that only when paired withforce has military intelligence been an effective tool, as it mayone day be in besting al-Qaeda.

Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic,the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it theworld's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign powerhad ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and sopowerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles thisepic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy,daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hungerwhile exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensiveand balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprisingreexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling onboth great accomplishments and the American people's tendency toconfuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement thatcame to be called manifest destiny.

Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars ofancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander(356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, andfounder of a new world order. Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians,scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and filmmakers.Cartledge brilliantly evokes Alexander's remarkable political andmilitary accomplishments, cutting through the myths to show why hewas such a great leader. He explores our endless fascination withAlexander and gives us insight into his charismatic leadership, hiscapacity for brutality, and his sophisticated grasp ofinternational politics. Alexander the Great is an engagingportrait of a fascinating man, and a welcome balance to the myths,legends, and often skewed history that have obscured the realAlexander.

On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of theScreaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. By July, theactivities of the artillery and infantry of Ripcord had caught theattention of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and a long and deadlysiege ensued. Ripcord was the Screaming Eagles’ last chance to dosignificant damage to the NVA in the A Shau Valley before thedivision was withdrawn from Vietnam and returned to the UnitedStates. At Ripcord, the enemy counterattacked with ferocity, using mortarand antiaircraft fire to inflict heavy causalities on the unitsoperating there. The battle lasted four and a half months andexemplified the ultimate frustration of the Vietnam War: theinability of the American military to bring to bear its enormousresources to win on the battlefield. In the end, the 101stevacuated Ripcord, leaving the NVA in control of the battlefield.Contrary to the mantra “We won every battle but lost the war,” theUnited States was defeated at Ripcord. Now, at last, th

A unique look at the complex relationship between two ofAmerica?’s foremost World War II leaders The first book ever to explore the relationship between GeorgeMarshall and Dwight Eisenhower, Partners in Command eloquentlytackles a subject that has eluded historians for years. As MarkPerry charts the crucial impact of this duo on victory in World WarII and later as they lay the foundation for triumph in the ColdWar, he shows us an unlikely, complex collaboration at the heart ofdecades of successful American foreign policy?—and shatters many ofthe myths that have evolved about these two great men and theissues that tested their alliance. As exciting to read as it isvitally informative, this work is a signal accomplishment.

Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates isnecessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretationand precise scientific measurements that often end up beingradically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of hiseye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: thestories of early American-European contact. To many of those whowere there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting ofequals than one of natural domination. And those who came later andfound an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mannargues convincingly, encountered not the natural and unchangingstate of the native American, but the evidence of a suddencalamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest epidemic inhuman history, the smallpox and other diseases introducedinadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity, whichswept through the Americas faster than the explorers who broughtit, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only ashadow of the

Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the mostfamous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culturewar that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Leveedistrict at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors,two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomedmoguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries andliterary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirtystunning Everleigh “butterflies” awaited their arrival. Courtesansnamed Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to thedelight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for TheodoreDreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot’s earningsand kept a “whipper” on staff to mete out discipline, theEverleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, wereexamined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literatureof Balzac. Not everyone appreciated the sisters’ attempts to elevate theindustry. Rival Levee madams hatc

In this gripping collection of tragic moments from ournation's past, Ace Collins tells the gripping real-life tales ofmen, women, and children trapped in situations beyond theircontrol. Culled from documents, interviews with key participants,and news stories of the day, They Thought They Were Safe chroniclesthe harrowing human drama of individuals facing life at its mostextreme. Infused with danger and immediacy, these stories place readers inthe middle of harrowing circumstances as they unfold. Putting ahuman face on these tragic events, Collins offers keen insightsinto people's thoughts, fears, and emotions as they battle againstthe forces of nature and human error. From the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 to the Coconut Grove Fire of'42 . . . from the Great Nashville Train Wreck of 1918 to 1953'sWaco Tornado, here are the famous as well as the forgotten eventsthat illustrate our will to survive in the face of certaindoom.

The Complete Idiots Guide(r) to World War II, SecondEdition , will feature updated and expanded coverage of thefateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events,and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most importantevents of the war. It will include details about major battles onland, in the air, and on the sea-starting with Hitler's rise topower and his goal of European conquest; to Japan's bombing ofPearl Harbor; to the decisive battles such as D-Day and the Battleof the Midway, which turned they tides of the war toward theAllies.

Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became thecreator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for thebest and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries suchas Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, whoarguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionablycreated Eisenhower’s "military-industrial complex." In the Kennedyera, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steeredour conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion ofIraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actorssuch as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad. ButRAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rationalchoice theory, a model explaining all human behavior throughself-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-ledtransformation of our social and economic system but also unleasheda resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied --religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella

This is a compendium of the weapons of war that may accompanyour soldiers in the near and far future, as well as an insightfullook at the soldier, sailor, and airman of today and tomorrow. Allmanner of military hardware is covered, as well as informationabout cutting-edge technology that will become standard in weaponsto come, the possibility of robotic soldiers, vehicles, protectivearmor, and the prospects of fighting a war in both space andcyberspace.

The 2003 Iraq war remains among the most mysterious armedconflicts of modernity. In The Iraq War, John Keegan offers a sharpand lucid appraisal of the military campaign, explaining just howthe coalition forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size andaddressing such questions as whether Saddam Hussein ever possessedweapons of mass destruction and how it is possible to fight a warthat is not, by any conventional measure, a war at all. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Donald Rumsfeld and GeneralTommy Franks, Keegan retraces the steps that led to the showdown inIraq, from the highlights of Hussein’s murderous rule to thediplomatic crossfire that preceded the invasion. His account of thecombat in the desert is unparalleled in its grasp of strategy andtactics. The result is an urgently needed and up-to-date book thatadds immeasurably to our understanding of those twenty-one days ofwar and their long, uncertain aftermath.

When prize-winning warcorrespondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia andthe Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains,he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morningby the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-linedispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his ownheart. Propelled by his boy... (展开全部) When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitzleaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for apeaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put warzones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musketfire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this timefrom a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by hisboyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search forplaces and people still held in thrall by America's greatestconflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of theunvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause ar

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

The Cardinal's Hat is the fascinating story of how Ippolitod'Este, the second son of Lucretia Borgia, acquired the covetedcardinal's hat and became the Archbishop of Milan. Working withIppolito's letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in an archive inModena, Italy, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinatingand undeniably titillating tale of this Renaissance cardinal andhis road to power and wealth in sixteenth century Europe.