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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
The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26,1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes.Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. WereJapanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth wasmuch worse--it came from within, from Southern California'sburgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how anoptimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airbornepoisons barraging their hometowns. With wit, verve, and a freshlook at history, California based journalists Chip Jacobs andWilliam J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, thecorporate- tainted science, the terrifying health costs, theattempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold themodern-day culture of Los Angeles. There are scofflaws aplenty anddirty deals, plus murders, suicides, spiritual despair, and anever-present paranoia about mass disaster. Brimming with historic photographs, forgotten anecdotes, a
Eight years ago we chased the Taliban from Kabul and forced AlQaeda to find a new home. One by one the militants crossed theborder into Pakistan and settled in its tribal areas, buildingalliances with locals and terrorizing or bribing their way topower. This place - Pakistan's lawless frontier - is now theepicenter of global terrorism. It is where young American andBritish jihadists go to be trained, where the kidnapped are stowedaway, and where plots are hatched for deadly attacks all over theworld. It has become, in President Obama's words, "the mostdangerous place" - a hornet's nest of violent extremists, many ofwhom now target their own state in vicious suicide- bombingcampaigns. Imtiaz Gul, who knows the ins and outs of these groups and theirleaders, tackles the toughest questions about the currentsituation: What can be done to bring the Pakistani Taliban undercontrol? Who funds these militants and what are their links to AlQaeda? Are they still supported by the ISI, Pakistan's all-powerfuli
