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給人帶來最有誘惑想像力的是寶藏，給人帶來致命結局的也是寶藏， 失落的寶藏像一塊巨大的磁鐵般，吸引著夢想發財的人們! 只有展翅雄鷹的銳利目光，才能看到藏寶尋找者們的夢中之寶! 　　千百年來，無數的尋寶者不……続きを見る

The change that passed over Europe in the sixteenth century was due to the development of new conceptions, political, intellectual, and religious, which found their expression in a period of bitter ……続きを見る

An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, idea……続きを見る

_______________ WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK AN OBSERVERBOOK OF THE YEAR _______________ Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun ……続きを見る

A powerful and concise exploration of how history and the bible tell of a different nature in the past. Science has used the present nature to model the past. The tower of Babel probably happened on……続きを見る

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and easter……続きを見る

Even a slight acquaintance with European history reveals the existence of a number of curious and apparently unreasonable beliefs prevalent throughout a period extending from early medieval to compa……続きを見る

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively ……続きを見る

I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem ……続きを見る

Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness. 'By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept', wrote the psalmist, 'as we remembered Zion'. One of the greatest cities ……続きを見る

有些事件科學能夠解答，有些事件只能視其為自然之奧秘，期待隨著文明的發展、科學的進步能逐步解開這些秘密！在這個美麗的藍色星球上，人們每天吃飯、睡覺、工作，過著平淡無奇的生活，不自覺地便忽略了許多千奇百……続きを見る

Fin 1872, Émile Erckmann, contre qui un mandat d’arrêt a été émis par les Prussiens qui occupent l’Alsace et la Moselle, s’installe à St-Dié. L’été précédent, il a fait la connaissance à Paris d’un ……続きを見る

The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed innovativ……続きを見る

A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated. "The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's ……続きを見る

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city……続きを見る

In this issue: "New Evidence for Julian Jaynes's Neurological Model: A Research Update" by Marcel Kuijsten (with commentary on Cavanna, Trimble, Federico & Monaco [2007] and Asaad &……続きを見る

The Tomb of Tutankhamun. A candle flame flickers on treasures that have lain in darkness for 3,250 years. Lord Carnarvon: "Can you see anything?" Howard Carter: "Yes . . . wonderful things!" Carter……続きを見る

Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics contributes to the recovery and understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and other cultures that developed independently of classical Greco-Roman models……続きを見る

Donato Coppola* 1983, Le origini di Ostuni. Testimonianze archeologiche degli avvicendamenti culturali, Monografie del Museo di " Civiltà preclassiche della Murgia meridionale ", I, Arti Grafiche Pu……続きを見る

'A masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman Empire' Sunday Times 'Holland does not just tell the story of the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. He knits the history of ancient Ro……続きを見る

The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion. Empires of the Indus……続きを見る

Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000 'An exhilarating sweep across European history either si……続きを見る

A concise political, social and religious history of the Byzantine empire. Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor state to the Roman Empire, known as th……続きを見る

**In this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age “Terrific… Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways……続きを見る

This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic chan……続きを見る

IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD The best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the worl……続きを見る

Après la chute du mur de Berlin, le monde a changé et des peuples entiers ont dû s'adapter. Est alors venu le temps des déconvenues, des désillusions et de la nostalgie, voire de l’Ostalgie. De 1989……続きを見る

The 15 essays collected here examine the inner spiritual life of Japan through the people that make Japan the unique place it is. The word "Kokoro" itself can be translated as "heart," "spirit" or "……続きを見る

La “Odisea”, junto con la “Ilíada”, es una de las piedras angulares de la cultura occidental, obra del inmortal bardo Homero. El poema narra las aventuras de Odiseo durante su regreso a casa tras la……続きを見る

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by ……続きを見る