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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
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects onebook that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading byall Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We WereSoldiers Once . . . and Young . In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry,under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopterinto a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediatelysurrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later,only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped topieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray andAlbany constituted one of the most savage and significant battlesof the Vietnam War. How these men persevered--sacrificed themselves for their comradesand never gave up--makes a vivid portrait of war at its mostinspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, theonly journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, haveinterviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the NorthVietnamese co
This second of two volumes gathering the essential writings of one of the towering figures of the American Revolution traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence (he was "our Colossus on the floor," remembered Thomas Jefferson), to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the field, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe, where he was hailed as "the George Washington of negotiation." It includes the highly influential pamphlet Thoughts on Government (1776); the "Report of a Constitution for Massachusetts," (1780) Adams's blueprint for what remains the world's oldest working political ...
A masterpiece o f the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s TheSpanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrativeof one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of thetwentieth century. Revised and updated with significant newmaterial, including new revelations about atrocities perpetratedagainst civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this"definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The NewYork Times ) has been given a fresh face forty years after itsinitial publication in 1961. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomasanalyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, anddogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no otheraccount, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles theevents that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink ofworld war, to divide against itself, bringing into play themachinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, andthe deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side ofdemocracy. Communists, an
