歷史
周越墨跡研究 豆瓣
作者: 李敖 桂冠圖書 1997 - 6
唯歷史及後人對周越卻十分陌生。本書其中作者王裕民先生從周越墨蹟的書法、材質、鈴印三方面的研究,觸類旁通,得出驚人結論,確立周越在中國藝術史上無可或缺的地位。
周越墨蹟研究
周越為宋代書法名家,其承接五代,影響力及於「宋四家」(其中蘇軾、黃庭堅、米芾皆有例證對周越之敬重)。周越和當時的王著一樣,能寫能論。唯歷史及後人對周越卻十分陌生。本書其中作者王裕民先生從周越墨蹟的書法、材質、鈴印三方面的研究,觸類旁通,得出驚人結論,確立周越在中國藝術史上無可或缺的地位。
那似曾相識的七十年代 豆瓣
作者: 呂大樂 中華書局(香港)有限公司 2012 - 7
「七十年代香港」的確有着一種神話般的色彩。「麥理浩時代」是否就如此美好?是否就從此發展出香港的「光輝歲月」?1974年究竟發生了什麼影響深遠但又不為人知的事?國共之爭如何在當時的香港足球反映出來?當時的海運大廈原來已經不屬於香港人… …
對不同社會背景的人來說,都會有不一樣的「七十年代香港」的傳奇故事。
呂大樂教授親臨書展現場,為大家講述不一樣的七十年代香港故事。
Digitized 豆瓣
所属 作品: 计算机:一部历史
作者: Peter J. Bentley Oxford University Press, USA 2012 - 3
There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any factory-produced product, or travel in any modern car. The discipline is so new that some prefer to call it a branch of engineering or mathematics. But it is so powerful and world-changing that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its achievements. The science of computers enables the supply and creation of power, food, water, medicine, transport, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods in shops. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks and GPS technologies. Here, Peter J. Bentley explores how this young discipline grew from its theoretical conception by pioneers such as Turing, through its growth spurts in the Internet, its difficult adolescent stage where the promises of AI were never achieved and dot-com bubble burst, to its current stage as a (semi)mature field, now capable of remarkable achievements. Charting the successes and failures of computer science through the years, Bentley discusses what innovations may change our world in the future.
The German Genius 豆瓣
所属 作品: 德国天才1
作者: Peter Watson Simon & Schuster 2010 - 9
第二次世界大战期间,德国强调“人种论”,认为日耳曼民族是世界最优秀的民族。虽然这种说法日后被完全否定,但德国在过去两百多年从艺术、音乐到科学等领域,确实是人才辈出。
剑桥大学研究员彼得•沃森(Peter Watson)的叙述横贯1750年至今的德国现代思想与文化,将对全世界对于德国的陈旧观念发起挑战,让人们重新认识德语社会曾对世界带来的影响。
从巴洛克时代的结束、音乐家巴赫的逝世到1933年希特勒的崛起,德国从一个文化贫瘠的西方国家转变为一个重要的文化强国——甚至比法国、英国、意大利、荷兰、美国更具创造性、更有影响力。
在20世纪的最初几十年中,德国的艺术家、作家、学者、哲学家、科学家和工程师将本国的科学文化推向了难以想象的高度。
截至1933年,获得诺贝尔奖的德国人比任何其他国家都多,甚至超过了英国和美国的总和。然而,阿道夫·希特勒和第三帝国的统治使得天才锐减。这个残酷的事实使得德国取得的许多成就至今仍被阴影笼罩。
但当时,德国人是如何扭转国家大局,造就了文化领域一枝独秀的地位?
在这本兼容并包的文化与思想史中,彼得·沃森追溯历史真相,探索了德国天才的起源。他解释了德国文化为何能蓬勃发展、如何塑造了人们的生活。最重要的是,德国的科学文化如何持续影响着我们的世界。
作者还提出,德国思想是现代西方文化的巅峰。从贝多芬、康德到尼采,从歌德、瓦格纳到孟德尔、普朗克,从黑格尔、马克思到弗洛伊德、勋伯格,无数大师塑造了这种文化。
此外,尽管经历了第二次世界大战,约瑟夫·博伊斯(Joseph Beuys,艺术家)、于尔根·哈贝马斯(Juergen Habermas,哲学家)、约瑟夫·拉辛格(Joseph Alois Ratzinger,枢机主教)等重要人物保证了德国智慧至今仍兴旺发展。
《德国天才》是一部引人入胜,气魄宏大的编年史……英语目前在艺术和科学领域占据主导地位,但沃森另辟蹊径,带你回到很久以前德语一家独大的时刻。
Lincoln 豆瓣
作者: Gore Vidal Vintage 2000 - 2
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again.
Burr 豆瓣
作者: Gore Vidal Vintage 2000 - 2
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality 豆瓣
作者: David M Halperin Routledge 1989 - 11
Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."
澳洲拓殖记 豆瓣
作者: (英)沃特金·坦奇 译者: 刘秉仁 商务印书馆 2008 - 9
《澳洲拓殖记》记述了英国向澳大利亚殖民的“第一舰队”航行 过程及到达澳大利亚后头4年在悉尼的殖民拓展情况。作者依据他本人亲历及转引他本人的日记而写成两本书,叙述真实、严谨,现场感很强,叙述依照时间先后顺序,引人人胜。两本书故事连贯,并不重复。
Five Germanys I Have Known 豆瓣
所属 作品: Five Germanys I Have Known
作者: Fritz Stern Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007 - 7
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past.
Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germanys, and the unified country after 1990. Through his engagement with the nation from which he and his family fled, he shows that the tumultuous history of Germany, alternately the strength and the scourge of Europe, offers political lessons for citizens everywhere—especially those facing or escaping from tyranny. In this wise, tough-minded, and subtle book, Stern, himself a passionately engaged citizen, looks beyond Germany to issues of political responsibility that concern everyone. Five Germanys I Have Known vindicates his belief that, at its best, history is our most dramatic introduction to a moral civic life.
Forgotten Ally 豆瓣
所属 作品: 中国,被遗忘的盟友
作者: Rana Mitter Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013 - 9
The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.
Rana Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government; Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. Drawing on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed in the past ten years, he brings to vivid new life such characters as Chiang’s American chief of staff, the unforgettable “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and such horrific events as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China’s wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows how the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider war effort, at great political and personal sacrifice.
Forgotten Ally rewrites the entire history of World War II. Yet it also offers surprising insights into contemporary China. No twentieth-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.