Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on 1493 by Charles C. Mann Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Stand; In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award; Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and Mayflower, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on 1493 by Charles C. Mann Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Stand; In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award; Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and Mayflower, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer ...(展开全部)

Product Description Based on the latest scientific findings, this breakthrough book argues that most of what we thought we knew about the Americas before Columbus was wrong. In the last 20 years, archaeologists and anthropologists equipped with new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries about the Americas. For example, Indians did not cross the Bering Strait 1...(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced ...(展开全部)

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endles...(展开全部)

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endles...(展开全部)