This book brings to light Russia's undeservedly-obscure military past, rectifying the tendency of Western military historians to neglect the Russian perspective. Russia, as both a Western and non-Western society, challenges conventional thinking about Western military superiority. Russia has always struggled with economic backwardness in comparison with more developed powers, a...(展开全部)

The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize...(展开全部)

The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize...(展开全部)

Now fully updated and totally revised, this highly regarded classic remains the most comprehensive study available of America’s military history. Dubbed “the preeminent survey of American military history” (Russell F. Weigley, author of The American Way of War ), For the Common Defense has established itself as an essential fixture in the field. In this major revision, auth...(展开全部)

In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and met...(展开全部)

In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and met...(展开全部)

The Definitive Account Many other authors have written about what they thought happened -- or thought should have happened -- in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation to America's eventual extrication from the war. Now, for the first time, Kiss...(展开全部)

Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairne...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂·皮奇切罗（Christy Pichichero），乔治梅森大学历史和艺术史专业教授，人文与社会科学学院主任。主要研究领域为近代法国与法兰西第一帝国的文学和文化。现任法国历史研究学会执行委员会委员。本书入选奥斯卡·肯舒尔图书奖最终名单。 李海峰，四川外国语大学翻译学院副教授，硕士生导师。曾赴英国爱丁堡大学与南安普敦大学进行学术访问和交流。在《中国翻译》《外国语文》《翻译教学与研究》等学术期刊发表论文10余篇，编著教材4部。主持中华学术外译项目1项，参与2项。在帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社（Palgrave Macmillan）、世界科学出版社（World Scientific）、北京大学出版社和外语教学与研究出版社等国内外著名出版社出版学术译著6部。

The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....(展开全部)