A STUDY OF THE EARLY LITERATURES ON THE SILK ROAD是同作者《早期丝绸之路文献研究》一书的英文版,是作者对早期丝绸之路考证研究的专着。 《早期丝绸之路文献研究》对东方和西方的有关丝绸之路的古代文献资料进行了细致的考证、研究,求得不同语种文献的相互印证,从而确认古代东西交流的史实。全书分上卷、下卷、附卷三部分,对于《穆天子传》、《西域图记》、《历史》、《地理志》等中外古籍均有详实的考证和独到的比较研究。
SOURCES ON THE HEPHTHALITE HISTORY是同作者《嚈哒史料辑注》一书的英文版,是作者对中外嚈哒史相关史料的全面辑注。作者自1979年开始研究嚈哒史以來,一直没有停止收集与嚈
SOURCES ON THE HEPHTHALITE HISTORY是同作者《嚈哒史料辑注》一书的英文版,是作者对中外嚈哒史相关史料的全面辑注。作者自1979年开始研究嚈哒史以來,一直没有停止收集与嚈
A STUDY OF THE HEPHTHALITE HISTORY是同作者《嚈哒史研究》一书的英文版,是作者研究嚈哒史的专著。嚈哒很初是北亚一个弱小的游牧部族,四世纪七十年代迁往中亚,以后日益强大起
THE EARLIEST TOCHARIANS IN CHINA: A HYPOTHESIS是同作者《古族新考》一书的英文版。《古族新考》曾于2000年由中华书局出版,2012年由商务印书馆再版。该部
作者就各篇西域传所见西域文化、宗教、习俗、制度,以及人种、语言、文字作了分门别类的研究,结集而成《两汉魏晋南北朝正史西域传研究》。本书和《两汉南北朝正史西域传要注》为姊妹篇。两书不仅为两汉魏晋南北朝正
The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree gives a bold, timely, and surprising picture of the state of globalization in the twenty-first century. In this brilliant #1 bestseller, "the most important columnist in America today" (Walter Russell Mead, The New York Times) demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Thomas L. Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first what it means to countries, companies, communities, and and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
The Canadian escort group C 2 was comprised of the RCN destroyers Gatineau and Chaudiere, the frigate St. Catharines, the Corvettes Chilliwack and Fennel, and the RN destroyer Icarus. these six and the RN corvette Kenilworth castle combined to sing U-744 in the North Atlantic in a prolonged drama on March 5 and 6, 1944. At 32 hours, this the second-longest successful hunt of the war. Chilliwack able seaman Ralph Chartrand recalls the action: When the sub started to surface, everything that could shoot went into action and we fired all we could. While the crew of U-744 was jumping out of the conning tower, St. Catharines was closing in, but our captain outmanoeuvred Chilliwack in front to make sure that this was our sub. He gave the order "Prepare to ram," but soon the sub was empty, so we didn't ram. We lowered a lifeboat with a boarding party and they proceeded to U-744. While the lifeboat was tied to the sub, some members boarded the sub. then a big wave hit our lifeboat and flipped the crew i
Shanghai, 1926. A city glistening with decadence and rife with corruption--a humid, bustling society at the cultural crossroads of British civil servants, American gun runners, Russian princesses, and Chinese gangsters. For Richard Field, a young Englishman new to the international police force, Shanghai represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. But his naiveté is quickly dashed when he is called to the scene of a brutal crime, in which a young Russian woman, Lena Orlov, has been found sadistically murdered in her bed. Field's idealistic instincts push him to investigate the case, but his attempts are met with apathy--then menace--from his colleagues. He begins to recognize that some cases in Shanghai are intended to remain unsolved, and, in a matter of days, he glimpses the murky depths that lurk beneath a luminous city. Field's drive to find the murderer leads him to Lena's neighbor, Natasha Medvedev. A stunning beauty who fled her charmed life in tsarist Russia, Nata
Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and brutal civil war. A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality and violence, The Civil Wars portrays political discontent, selfishness and the struggle for power - a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire, and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC
More than fifteen million Americans currently practice yoga (according to Yoga Journal ), but how many of them know the true story of how Downward Dog first captivated America? Resurrecting a fascinating and forgotten tale, journalist Robert Love returns to the Gilded Age, when Dr. Pierre Bernard (n Perry Baker in Iowa) revived a discipline banned in Victorian India, packaged it for Americans, and taught legions of followers, who bankrolled his luxurious Hudson River ashram- the first in the nation. Filled with Jazz Age celebrities, heiresses, spies, and outraged clergy, The Great Oom is the enthralling life story of the unlikeliest of gurus, and a stunning saga of mysticism, intrigue, and the American dream.
This memoir of young American film-man Marvin Farkas's life inHong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s looks set to be one of the biggestAsia books of 2011. Full of vivid stories and characters, the bookis a classic tale of a young man's rite of passage, but also afirst-hand account of some of the key events and personalities of anow lost era. Arriving in Hong Kong in 1954 on the cargo shipEastern Saga, Marvin took up lodgings at the ForeignCorrespondent's Club (FCC) as he started out building a career withonly US$200 and the camera which he had taken from his father's newYork studio. An Eastern Saga covers Marvin's experiences of eventsranging from the expulsion of the Dutch from Indonesia, toMalaysian independence and the early years of the Vietnam war, andhis meetings with key figures including Zhou Enlai, Sukarno, AliBhutto, and legendary director Satyajit Ray. Above all though, thisis a charming account of a now lost era.
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a greatwriter, recording the events of his life with incomparableimmediacy and power. "The Civil War" is a tense and grippingdepiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership ofRepublican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world,from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa. Where Caesar's own accountleaves off in 48 BC, his lieutenants take up the history,describing the vital battles of Munda, Spain and Thapsus, and theinstallation of Cleopatra, later Caesar's mistress, as Queen ofEgypt. Together these narratives paint a full picture of the eventsthat brought Caesar supreme power - and paved the way for hisassassination only months later.
This extensive archive featuring offensive and defensive weapons of battle includes a vast array of armor and other ancient, protective devices. Artists, illustrators, and craftworkers can draw on the collection for detailed depictions of chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, and a host of other implements of battle. The set contains: One CD-ROM containing 366 high-quality, permission-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF) A large-format 64-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly and numbered for easy reference Suitable for projects requiring a medieval or old-fashioned flavor, these drawings reproduce extremely well and will fill a host of needs for battle-related art.
This is a study of the origins and practices at Olympia and Delphi which challenges many assumptions about the nature and role of the archaeological data. Dr Morgan considers the economics of dedication, technology and the organization of craft production which provide insights into the behaviour of producers and purchasers of material dedicated at the sanctuaries。 作者简介 Dr Morgan considers the economics ofdedicarion,technologyand the organisation ofcrafi production,which provide insightsinto the behaviour ofproducers and purchasers ofmaterial dedicated at sanctuaries Her snldv is exceptional for the emphasis placed upon tlle two sites in their contemporary local contexts and their changing roles in society The progression of scate formation is discussed through the relationship between changes in dedicatory practice during the eith century and the changing needs of communi ties The book concludes with the first detailed study of the wider roles of Olympia and Delphi as two major sanctuaries
D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on June 6, 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men from America, Canada, Britain, France, Poland, and Germany, and helped seal the fate of Hitler"s Third Reich. This book, published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, is a graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign that effectively destroyed the German forces in France and opened the way for the Allied advance to Holland, Belgium, and into Germany itself.Written by one of Britain"s best-known and respected military historians, Professor Richard Holmes, and including a wealth of firsthand accounts, The D-Day Experience contains 30 facsimile items of D-Day memorabilia integrated into the pages of the book. The reader can relive this momentous period of 20th century history by holding and examining maps, diaries, letters, sketches, secret memos and reports, posters, and labels that up until now have remained filed or
A STUDY OF THE HEPHTHALITE HISTORY是同作者《嚈哒史研究》一书的英文版,是作者研究嚈哒史的专著。 嚈哒初是北亚一个弱小的游牧部族,四世纪七十年代迁往中亚,以后日益强大起来,开始了大规模的征服。极盛时期的嚈哒国幅员辽阔,除领有大部分中亚地区外,还一度占有波斯和印度的大片领土。从五世纪三十年代末嚈哒人占领今阿富汗北部,直至六世纪五十年代末嚈哒国家被突厥和波斯联盟灭亡,这一百二十年左右的时间在中亚史上称为嚈哒时代。嚈哒人的活动对中亚、北亚、南亚、西亚乃至欧洲的历史都产生了深远的影响。因此,嚈哒史研究是古代中亚史研究一个不可缺少的环节,也是中国西域史、波斯古代史和印度古代史研究的重要组成部分。也就是说,嚈哒史研究有其不容忽视的世界史意义。自十九世纪中叶起,各国学者纷纷发表有关嚈哒史研究的论文。20
"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oiland money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and anepic tale." -Tom Brokaw Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of therichest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of thenineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book,journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle ofSaudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a landstraddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from thebloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the PersianGulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11world, Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vividlife and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not tobe at war with itself.
A STUDY OF MONOGRAPHS ON THE WESTERN REGIONS IN THE OFFICIAL HISTORY BOOKS OF THE WESTERN EASTERN HAN, WEI, JIN, SOUTHERN NORTHERN DYNASTIES是同作者《两汉魏晋南北朝正史西域传研究》一书的英文版,是作者长期研究西域史和古代中外关系史,对塞种、贵霜、嚈哒以及两汉魏晋南北朝与西域关系史的论着。 作者就各篇西域传所见西域文化、宗教、习俗、制度,以及人种、语言、文字作了分门别类的研究,结集而成《两汉魏晋南北朝正史西域传研究》。本书和《两汉南北朝正史西域传要注》为姊妹篇。两书不仅为两汉魏晋南北朝正史西域传有关西域的记载提供了一个系统的注解,而且首次解读了两汉魏晋南北朝正史西域传的认知和阐述系统。这对于深入理解两汉魏晋南北朝的政治、经济和文化等均有参考价值,其意义已经逸出了西域史研究的范畴。
作者就各篇西域传所见西域文化、宗教、习俗、制度,以及人种、语言、文字作了分门别类的研究,结集而成《两汉魏晋南北朝正史西域传研究》。本书和《两汉南北朝正史西域传要注》为姊妹篇。两书不仅为两汉魏晋南北朝正