This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sections analyze the impact of environmental and climate change, discuss declining fertility in developing nations, and track the continuing impact of HIV-AIDS. - Central themes updated and revised to take account of new scholarship ...(展开全部)

The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050. It includes the latest data on fertility and infant mortality and a new section on migration has been added. The discussion of America is completely rewritten to give a fuller view of the past, including reference to the slave trade, and coverage of China has b...(展开全部)

Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

The history of textiles, more than that of any other artifact, is the history of human ingenuity. From the earliest needles of 25,000 years ago to techno textiles used in Space Shuttle parachutes today, textiles have been fundamental to human existence and achievements, and have informed developments in other areas from agriculture to metallurgy. Textiles are global commodities...(展开全部)

Covering the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day, this concise history focuses in particular on the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a nation state during the past two centuries, including a legacy of fragmentation dating back to the sixth century. Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·达根（Christopher Duggan），雷丁大学教授，主要研究当代意大利历史。他的作品涵盖了19世纪和20世纪意大利的各个方面。出版著作包括《法西斯和黑手党》（1989年）、《弗朗西斯科·克里斯皮：从国家到民族主义》（2002年）、《命运之力：1796年至今的意大利史》（2007年）以及《法西斯之音：墨索里尼时期的意大利历史》（2012年）。达根的所有著作都已被翻译为意大利语。同时，达根也获得了意大利政府颁发的最高荣誉勋章。 克里斯托弗在博士期间研究的主要课题就是法西斯和黑手党。多年的学术积累和在意大利的丰富生活经历，使他成为该领域的顶尖学者。并且由于他本人并非意大利人，与意大利政治无利益瓜葛，其著作往往被认为比意大利本国的现代历史著作更加客观、公正，更加敢于直言。

The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Faust...(展开全部)

This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells ow they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It rela...(展开全部)

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The...(展开全部)