页数： 351 到书日期： 2003-6-16 上传日期： 2004-3-5

中文概要: 诺曼底登陆，二战的转折点。人们从各种渠道多多少少了解了有关诺曼底登陆的情况。然而遗憾的是，没有一本书能够向人们切切实实地揭示登陆日之前至关重要的十天里发生的事情---命运、错误、欺骗、政治斗争，双重间谍等活动。

《TEN DAYS TO D-DAY》正是这样的一本书，它填补了这段历史，本书分别从盟军、纳粹德国的角度讲述了D-Day前每一天都发生了什么，细述所发生的一切事件。人们可以切实感受到：成功与失败只在一线之差。

诺曼底登陆50周年之后，英国、美国、俄罗斯公开了大量二战时期的谍报资料。作者着眼点主要放在12个不同人物的叙述上：希特勒、艾森豪威尔、蒙哥马利、邱吉尔、隆美尔、美国伞兵、英国飞行员、还有英、德、法、比（利时）的普通士兵以及一个荷兰犹太家庭。

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页数： 120 到书日期： 2003-5-16 上传日期： 2004-3-5

中文概要: 关于体育，关于奥运是永远热门的话题。中国北京将举办2008年奥运会，这是亚洲和中国的荣耀。但有关奥运，特别是古代奥运知识我们很多人知道的只是一鳞半爪，而我们当中的很多人没有也无法去亲身体会，聊起来只是依样画葫芦、人云亦云而已。

英文简介: In this revised and enlarged edition of ’The Ancient Olympic Games’, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. A large, detailed model based on modern research and excavation reconstructs the site of Ancient Olympia, where alongside religious and civic buildings there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool and a racecourse. Later chapters cover the diet and medical treatment of athletes, sponsorship, patronage, propaganda and revivals of the Games. The last additional chapter on the modern Games is written in collaboration with Stewart Binns, an expert in this field who has worked closely with the International Olympic Committee over many years.

页数： 到书日期： 2004-3-5 上传日期： 2004-3-5

中文概要: 莫里森是一个勇敢的具有献身精神的记者。1882年他才20岁时，就孤身一人来到墨尔本揭露澳大利亚的奴隶贸易。在第一次试图穿越新几内亚时，他中了埋伏，差点被杀死，从此身上留下了两个箭头。但让他赢得国际声名的是他在义和团时期担任“泰晤士报”驻北京的记者，当时他帮助组织了外交使团的防卫活动。后来他担任了北京小皇帝政府的顾问，并在清王朝的垮台和民国政府的建立中起了重要作用。

英文简介: The story of an "Aussie hero" who became the most famous and influential journalist reporting for The Times on China before, during and after the Boxer Rebellion. The Man Who Died Twice is the compelling story of ’Morrison of Peking’, who bestrode continents, helped bring down a dynasty and chronicled his times so brilliantly that he not only wrote history but changed it as well. George Ernest Morrison’s strong sense of courage and devotion to reporting the truth led him, at only 20, to expose the Australian Kanaka slave trade. He then walked, alone and unaided, from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne only 21 years after explorers Burke and Wills had perished in the same endeavour. And in attempting the first crossing of New Guinea, he was almost killed in an ambush which left two spear tips embedded in his body. However, it was Morrison’s work as a correspondent for the London Times in the decadent and dangerous Chinese capital at the turn of the century that brought him international fame, not least when he helped to organise the defence of the legations during the 55-day siege of the Boxer Uprising. Then, as adviser to the fledgling Chinese government, he was a pivotal figure in the fall of the last Emperor and the birth of the Chinese Republic. Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin have written a powerful and gripping biography of an Australian journalist and adventurer who paused only to tell his stories and to plan his next foray among the great events and leading figures of his day. the great events and leading figures of his day

页数： 288 到书日期： 2005-5-11 上传日期： 2004-2-25

中文概要: 西方的主流文化都认为，人文主义是西方文明的基础。人文主义的成就包括个人的解放，民主，普世人权，以及普遍繁荣和舒适。现代文化的英雄人物，如伊拉斯莫，霍尔宾，莎士比亚，维拉斯克斯，笛卡尔，康德和弗洛伊德，都可说是人文主义的大使。那些想把它置于一个更高真理的框架内的人们，如路德，卡尔文，普桑，基尔凯戈尔，几乎也不能阻挡人文主义的滚滚洪流。那些企图改造人文主义宗旨的人，如马克思，达尔文和尼采，要受到他们自己的预言是否成功的检验。
但是作者不同意这种看法。他认为，西方500年来的人文主义实验失败了，并带来了可怕的文化后果。在他1993年的“人文主义：西方文化的罹难”中，作者已陈述了这一观点，这次更新再版时，则以2001年的9.11事件作为结束。 Zygmunt Bauman评论说：“约翰-卡罗尔在一个别人不敢，或没有毅力去探索的领域内占有了一个完全属于他自己的位置。。。他在今日智力生活中的独特作用在于持续不断的刺激作用。。。卡罗尔对西方文明的非正统的，启迪思考的重新评估，将现代历史上一些宗教的，艺术的和哲学的里程碑，置于新的视角中。。。有些读者会觉得卡罗尔的书振聋发聩，有些人则会觉得它让人震怒，但大家都会感到难以释手。”

英文简介: Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture: Erasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velázquez, Descartes, Kant, and Freud.

Those who sought to contain humanism’s pride within a frame of higher truth — Luther, Calvin, Poussin, Kierkegaard — could barely interrupt its torrential progress. Those who sought to reform humanism’s tenets — Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche — were tested by the success of their own prophecies.

So runs the approved view; it is not shared by John Carroll. Rather he articulates a disruptive and compelling alternative version of Western civilisation since the Renaissance and the Reformation contrived to unleash Reason, Will, and a superhuman Man on the world. Here, Carroll significantly reworks his bracing study of humanism’s rise to pre-eminence and its headlong tumble into contradiction. This revised look at the failure of the West’s 500-year experiment with humanism, and its dire cultural consequences, concludes with 11 September, 2001.

页数： 0 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 1900-1-1

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英文简介: At the heart of Andrew Miller’s first novel, Ingenious Pain lies the question "What does the world need most--a good, ordinary man, or one who is outstanding, albeit with a heart of ice?" The outstanding man in question is James Dyer, an English freak of nature who, since his birth during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, has been impervious to physical pain. Not only does he feel no pain, but he also recovers from all injuries in record time. By turns a foil for a quack doctor at county fairs and an object of study by a wealthy collector of human oddities, the protagonist, James Dyer, eventually becomes a surgeon. As such he gains exposure to a panoply of 18th-century philosophical thought, medical practice, historic events and larger-than-life rogues and heroes, both fictional and real.

页数： 847 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 1900-1-1

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英文简介: THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB is based in many years of archival research and includes important new documentary discoveries. It assesses who knew what and when, and who did what and why. It is the fullest account yet written of this momentous and sobering episode in twentieth-century history.

页数： 143 到书日期： 2002-12-20 上传日期： 1900-1-1

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英文简介: The originator of Coca-Cola, a druggist named John Styth Pemberton, died just a few years after introducing the product in 1886 to a room of thirsty patrons in an Atlanta soda fountain. Unfortunately, Pemberton died nearly penniless and never knew the huge impact his "brain tonic" would one day have on the world.
Following that fateful summer day more than 115 years ago, Coca-Cola emerged as the leading "daytime" refreshment and along the way--through its mastery of sales and marketing, distribution, promotion, merchandising, and bottling --instilled in consumers a fierce product loyalty that’s as strong as ever. The nearly $50 billion global operation is arguably the moist recognized corporate symbol in the world.
THE SPARKLING STORY OF COCA-COLA, a compendium of America’s favorite soft drink, is and entertaining account of the product that helped define the term “pop culture.”
THE SPARKLING STORY OF COCA-COLA is neither a straight textual history nor a price guide. Its appealing combination of the story of Coca-Cola, coupled with a varied collection of fabulous artwork—including vintage photos, calendars, and collectibles—provides an exceptional overview f the one of the world’s most beloved products and the enterprise that created it. From the history of Coke’s distinctive flavor, the fight for control of the formula, and the early days of advertising to the legal battles, the introduction of vending machines, and the huge demand spurred on by baby boomers, THE SPARKLING STORY OF COCA-COLA is a comprehensive tribute to this pop culture icon.