This book is an outstanding work of scholarship, which builds on a long history of research and publication in this field dating to the 1890s. The author has made extensive use of Chinese sources in the original and prepared a new edition of the Old Turkic inscriptions. It also provides new views on the dating and authorship of the inscriptions. In short, it is the leading edit...(展开全部)

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and enormous cultural importance. A nation whose impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbours in the Middle East but on the world as a whole - and through ideas and creativity rather than by the...(展开全部)

Prospect “His account of modern Iranian politics and culture is more gripping than most novels…. Consistently intelligent, notably up to date and lucidly written.”

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, “depression” referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren’t sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth centu...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

勒内·格鲁塞（René Grousset，1885年－1952年1885年生于加尔省Aubais，1952年逝于巴黎），法国历史学家，以研究中亚和远东著名。其代表作为《草原帝国》（L'Empire des Steppes）。 格鲁塞毕业于蒙彼利埃大学历史系。其后长期就职于法国美术部，一战时曾短暂从军。1925年出任吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆助理监管人及杂志 Asiatique 的秘书。1933年任塞努奇博物馆馆长及其亚洲艺术藏品的负责人。在二战前，发表了他最重要的两篇著作：《十字军东征史》Histoire des Croisades（1934-36年）和《草原帝国》 L'Empire des Steppes （1939年）。二战期间，他被维希法国政府解职，但仍秘密继续研究工作，在战争期间出版了三本有关中国和蒙古的作品。战后，他被重新任命为塞努奇博物馆馆长...(展开全部)

勒内·格鲁塞（René Grousset，1885年－1952年1885年生于加尔省Aubais，1952年逝于巴黎），法国历史学家，以研究中亚和远东著名。其代表作为《草原帝国》（L'Empire des Steppes）。 格鲁塞毕业于蒙彼利埃大学历史系。其后长期就职于法国美术部，一战时曾短暂从军。1925年出任吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆助理监管人及杂志 Asiatique 的秘书。1933年任塞努奇博物馆馆长及其亚洲艺术藏品的负责人。在二战前，发表了他最重要的两篇著作：《十字军东征史》Histoire des Croisades（1934-36年）和《草原帝国》 L'Empire des Steppes （1939年）。二战期间，他被维希法国政府解职，但仍秘密继续研究工作，在战争期间出版了三本有关中国和蒙古的作品。战后，他被重新任命为塞努奇博物馆馆长...(展开全部)

Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive ...(展开全部)

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general rea...(展开全部)