《欧洲史》是英国历史学家诺曼·戴维斯的代表作。它为欧洲历史设计出一种时间和空间的坐标系统，呈现出难得一见的整体史印象。它将传统叙述方式与特写结合，容纳了经常被严肃历史学家忽略的各种奇特事物和思想，成为近年来深具价值和说服力的欧洲通史作品。

《欧洲史：古典时代（史前— 公元337）》是“欧洲”正式亮相之前这片陆地的历史。

欧洲不是独立的“大陆”，而是一个“半岛”。地貌、气候、地质和动物群落共同营造了一个良性的环境，这是理解欧洲历史的基础。古希腊的历史跨越了1000多年的时间，在其全盛期，希腊人在各个领域爆发式地取得了惊人的成就。以内聚力著称的罗马的崛起则预示着一种新型陆上强国对“海岸线文明”的征服。吸收了希腊文化的罗马，成了一个文化混血儿，主宰了此后数百年的罗马帝国政治文化生活，直到新的文化基础——基督教出现。

人类从什么时候开始渴望飞行？

1000年来的科学家和冒险者都做过哪些飞行的尝试？

飞机和火箭的历史上有哪些里程碑式的技术突破？

莱特兄弟之前的几百年，飞机设计者为什么全都想错了？

飞机上天必需的三大条件是什么？扑翼、滑翔机和飞机的区别是？

热气球竟被作为战争利器？飞艇为 何没有变成主流交通工具？

初代军用机的灵感为何来自鸽子和葫芦种子？

早期战斗机飞行员怎样看清方向，甚至要边飞边降落亲自问路？

最早的转缸发动机为什么装在自行车上？发动机百年来经历了哪几次关键革新？

为什么“协和空难”事故的根源不是超音速本身？“黑科技”亚轨道轰炸机是否能实现？

为什么导弹和火箭其实是一种东西？

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知乎荣誉答主的首部科普力作

卢西是知乎航空航天领域荣誉答主、动力工程师、德国亚琛工业大学（RWTH Aachen University）硕士、美国佐治亚理工学院访问学者。这是他的全新科普力作，一部带有人文性的技术科普书，除了飞机火箭的基本原理、技术发展史，还讲述了航空航天领域许多科学家和工程师奋斗的故事。

紧跟热点，迅速掌握基础知识

2021年，天问一号探测器、祝融号火星车、神舟十三号顺利升空，天和号核心舱和空间站正式运行，航天事业硕果累累；民用航天也向人们敞开大门，亚马逊创始人贝佐斯的蓝色起源公司也已经将商业太空旅行提上日程。2021年9月，珠海航展如火如荼地召开，多种新技术让人眼花缭乱——我们如何GET航空航天的知识点，才能看懂这些前沿资讯？飞机技术最近有哪些突破？火箭都有哪些类型，具体什么原理？登月飞行有几种路线？星际旅行必备什么样的发动机？

人人都该懂点儿工程学思维

如何像工程师一样思考？为什么我们在机场看到的飞机都长得差不多？为什么工程师从来不找正确答案，而是在多个方案中寻求最优解？最早的民航班机为什么是水上飞机？“ETOPS双发延程飞行”这条民航业规定，为何改变了世界格局？本书是航空工程师写给大众的入门手册，既没有复杂的公式、定理，也无需具备任何物理学基础，只有好懂的故事、清晰的插画和照片。用故事讲技术，普及工程学原理和民航知识，无论是大中学生、商务人士、驴友还是航空发烧友、军迷，都能有所收获。

清华大学航天航空学院副院长、洪堡学者王兵诚挚推荐

“卢西的著作没有复杂的公式，但为我们明晰地讲述了千年来人类探索飞行的历程，让各行各业的人们都能够深入了解人类探索航空航天的历史，是一部优秀的科普作品。希望这部著作能够激发更多人对于航空航天的兴趣，让知识的普及引领更多人才投身航空航天领域，推动我国乃至人类的航空航天事业发展！”

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今天，我们经常看航天项目直播或航展，但其中涉及的许多专业知识——如涡喷发动机、飞行控制、运载火箭、固体火箭、比冲、指令舱、逃逸塔——我们到底听懂了多少？如何讲清飞机、火箭的原理？在飞机和火箭的技术史上，又有多少至关重要的技术变迁和前赴后继的前辈？今天，我们都有机会坐飞机，但民航走过了怎样的曲折路程，才得以让我们更舒适、安全地到达？未来的民航机、真实的星际旅行又是什么样的？本书用一个个生动、幽默、动人的故事，普及了航空航天领域的许多基础重要的知识。

郭沫若是20世纪中国著名的文学家、革命者以及重要的国家领导人。然而，近年来学术界以及坊间对郭沫若的的认识多有偏差，将郭沫若塑造成“两面人”“墙头草”等形象，诸多言论都是建立在不实之词的基础之上。本书对于一个时期以来，郭沫若文学创作、学术研究及其他问题上的种种“流言”与“抹黑”，进行了深入剖析，澄清了加诸郭沫若身上的不实之词。同时对其中几类主要“流言”和“抹黑”的原由进行了分析，还原历史事件本来面目，为读者呈现了一位坚持马克思主义理想，为中国革命做出巨大贡献的名人的一生的不同侧面。

廓清迷雾，摒弃流言，通过丰富的材料与扎实的考证，认识真实的郭沫若。

本书作者现为中国社会科学院郭沫若纪念馆研究员、兼任中国郭沫若研究会秘书长。

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker, leads a whirlwind tour from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome in 1906 to minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a disarmingly comprehensive style reminiscent of historian Otto Friedrich. Thus, composers who led dramatic lives—such as Shostakovich's struggles under the Soviet regime—make for gripping reading, but Ross treats each composer with equal gravitas. The real strength of this study, however, lies in his detailed musical analysis, teasing out—in precise but readily accessible language—the notes that link Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story to Arnold Schoenberg's avant-garde compositions or hint at a connection between Sibelius and John Coltrane. Among the many notable passages, a close reading of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes stands out for its masterful blend of artistic and biographical insight. Readers new to classical music will quickly seek out the recordings Ross recommends, especially the works by less prominent composers, and even avid fans will find themselves hearing familiar favorites with new ears. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

本书是卡尔的一部史学理论著作，提出了后来争论激烈的历史是什么的命题，是部有价值的史学理论著作。

Praise for the First Edition "Because of its exceptionally wide perspective, even architectural historians who do not teach general survey courses are likely to enjoy and appreciate it." — Annali d'architettura "Not only does A Global History of Architecture own the territory (of world architecture), it pulls off this audacious task with panache, intelligence, and—for the most part—grace." — Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Revised and updated—the compelling history of the world's great architectural achievements Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture, Second Edition has been updated and revised throughout to reflect current scholarship. Spanning from 3,500 b.c.e. to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history. The architectural history of the world comes to life through a unified framework for interpreting and understanding architecture, supplemented by rich drawings from the renowned Frank Ching, as well as brilliant photographs. This new Second Edition: Delivers more coverage of non-Western areas, particularly Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, and Pre-Columbian America Is completely re-designed with full-color illustrations throughout Incorporates additional drawings by Professor Ching, including new maps with more information and color Meets the requirements set by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) for "non-Western" architecture in history education. Offers new connections to a companion Web site, including Google EarthTM coordinates for ease of finding sites. Architecture and art enthusiasts will find A Global History of Architecture, Second Edition perpetually at their fingertips.

本书是法国出版的畅销世界的文化类丛书“发现之旅”中的一本，介绍了摇滚年代各音乐流派及其代表人物的经历。

在线阅读本书 Hailed on publication in 1957 as 'probably the only book published this year that will outlive the century', this is a devastating criticism of the idea that there are fixed laws in history and that human beings are able to predict them.

This masterly collection of texts interrogates the raging academic question, What is art history? Editor Preziosi, who directs ground-breaking critical studies of art history and museology, provides introductions to 35 challenging readings gathered in nine chapters. This plethora of alternatives is curiously complicated, even obfuscating. Covered here are the most current and relevant approaches to aesthetics, style, iconography and semiology, feminism, gender studies, formalism, postmodernism, deconstruction, museography, hybridity, and multiculturalism; those offering critical analysis range from Winckelmann, Kant, Wolfflin, Panofsky, Schapiro, Gombrich, and Derrida to Rosalind Krauss and Carol Duncan. Ultimately, this book is best suited to upper- and graduate-level collections and to the reference shelf of specialized art collections, as it proposes the discipline of art history itself as an art.AMary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MD

Tony Judt is on e of today's leading historians and thinkers. Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize in 2007, his previous book, Postwar , was hailed as "monumental . . . a tour de force"by Foreign Affairs , among other leading publications. In Reappraisals , he persuasively argues that we have entered an "age of forgetting." Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War to the displacement of history by heritage, Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, and shows how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory.

From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing.

From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson-one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"-masterfully examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity.

On a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states. Who won the war of the world? We tend to assume it was the West. Some even talk of the American century. But for Ferguson, the biggest upshot of twentieth-century upheaval was the decline of Western dominance over Asia.

A work of revelatory interpretive power, The War of the World is Niall Ferguson's masterwork.

Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OF SPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I -- from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this "bold and fertile book" (Atlantic Monthly), Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. RITES OF SPRING is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.

Book Description The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for understanding the struggle over the "new rules of the game" for the twenty-first century. Amazon.com The "commanding heights," according to Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, are those dominant enterprises and industries that form the high economic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysis of the new world economy, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine "the individuals, the ideas, the conflicts, and the turning points" that are responsible. And by considering events such as the ongoing Asian monetary crisis, they suggest what the ultimate interconnection of financial markets might mean in the future. The Wall Street Journal, Kenneth Minogue Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw write clearly and have the journalist's talent for fixing personalities in our minds with biographical detail. No one could ask for a better account of the world's political and economic destiny since World War II. The New York Times Book Review, Jeffrey E. Garten It is an extraordinarily ambitious undertaking, combining the history of milestone events in countries as diverse as France and India, the biography of leaders as different as Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping and the evolution of ideas ranging from Keynesian economics ... to the Chicago school of free markets. But it is also a brilliantly successful project, a colorful and even suspenseful story of how the world has been transformed over the last half-century. From Booklist Yergin and Stanislaw's global tour d'horizon doesn't extrapolate from the discrediting of various shades of socialism that free markets are here to stay. The situation varies from country to country. The authors report on the post^-World War II performance of significant national economies and, moreover, on the politicians who, starting with Margaret Thatcher, advocated the disengagement of the state from the economy. This work complements Robert Skidelsky's Road from Serfdom (1996), a readable analysis of how the predictions of free-market economist F. A. Hayek came true. The authors supplement their research with interviews of influential economists and politicians over the past two decades, such as those who implemented "shock therapies" in ex-communist countries. The authors' judgments are reasoned and seasoned, far from podium-pounding homilies on the free market; rather, they explain why the welfare state was so appealing after the war, then how it gradually sputtered into 1970s stagflation. Renders wide-ranging acquaintance with the basic ideas of contemporary economics. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Gilbert Taylor Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Robert Heilbroner ...a book that must be read by anyone who responds to its powerful subtitle.... It has been a long time since I have read a book in which intelligence and readability were so felicitously mixed. Commentary, Gary Rosen Yergin and Stanislaw trace the course of our century's enchantment with central planning from its first hopeful postwar expressions to its dissolution in recent decades under the relentless pressure of the marketplace and its partisans. It is a grand tale, and they relate it with admirable ambition and energy, even if in the end they fail to do it full justice. They rightly consider Hayek the leading thinker in the revolt against statism. The problem with Yergin and Stanislaw's presentation of his views is that it scants their essential aspect, which is political and legal. As they would have it, the confrontation between market and state basically concerns information, that is, which side knows more. For Hayek himself, however, the overriding reason state control of economies is "the road to serfdom" is that it vastly expands the opportunities for the governing class to serve its own narrow interests. Such messily political matters are not fundamental to Yergin and Stanislaw's account. This no doubt explains their strange insistence that the state may soon come roaring back to reclaim its place atop the commanding heights. Whatever misfortunes may befall the newly liberalized economies of the world, however, far too many people have learned that political power, even when exercised in the name of public-spirited economic ends, corrupts in direct proportion to the ambition of its reach. Book Dimension : length: (cm)23.4 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)15.5

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium.De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself.

A History of Modern Europe presents a panoramic survey of modern Europe from the Renaissance to the present day. A seasoned teacher and talented historian, Professor John Merriman offers a carefully crafted narrative that guides students through a vast amount of complex material, integrating the many aspects of the European experience into a larger, interconnected whole. A full ten percent shorter than its predecessor, the Second Edition has tightened organization throughout to make room for recent research and descriptions of the current issues and events that define Europe's role in the world today. Height (mm) 223 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Width (mm) 155

Was Europe's domination of the modern international order the inevitable rise of a superior civilization or the piratical hijacking of an evolving world system? A little of both, and a lot of neither, this ambitious comparative study argues—because world history's real center of gravity sits in Eurasia. Historian Darwin (The End of the British Empire) contends that an ascendant Western imperialism was a sideshow to vast, wealthy and dynamic Asian empires—in China, Mughal India, the Ottoman Middle East and Safavid Iran—which proved resistant to Western encroachment and shaped the world into the 21st century. Europe's overseas colonial empires as well as the expansions of the United States across North America and Russia across Siberia—was not inevitable, but rather a slow, fitful and often marginal enterprise that didn't accelerate until the mid-19th century. Darwin analyzes the technological, organizational and economic advantages Europeans accrued over time, but shows how dependent their success was on the vagaries of world trade (the driving force of modern imperialism, in his account) and the internal politics of the countries they tried to control. Nicely balanced between sweeping overview and illuminating detail, this lucid survey complicates and deepens our understanding of modern world history.

A century of revolutionary upheaval in China reached a climax in 1949 with the creation of the People's Republic. A central government had now gained full control of the Chinese mainland, thus achieving the national unity so long desired. Moreover, this central government was committed for the first time to the overall modernization of the nation's polity, economy, and society. This is the first of the two final volumes of The Cambridge History of China, which describe the efforts of the People's Republic of China to grapple with the problems of adaptation to modern times. Volume 14 deals with the achievements of the economic and human disasters of the new regime's first sixteen years (1949-65). Part I chronicles the attempt to adapt the Soviet model of development to China, and Part II covers the subsequent efforts of China's leaders to find native solutions that would provide more rapid and appropriate answers to China's problems. Each of the two parts of the volume analyzes the key issues and developments in the spheres of politics, economics, culture, education, and foreign relations. The contributors, all leading scholars of the period, show the interrelation of Chinese actions in all these spheres, and the describe how, gradually, events led to the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Tse-tung in 1966.