A vividly told history of greed and its greatest practitioners in the last forty years, and how it gave rise to our current economic ills. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping and incisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth did not start in the 2000s but has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals w...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

加州大学圣克鲁兹分校心理学和社会学教授，精英研究领域中的领军人物之一。在这方面的主要著作有《谁统治美国》(1967年以来已出五个版本)、《权力精英和国家：在美国政策是如何制订的》(1990)、《国家自主性还是阶级支配？美国政策形成的个案研究》(1996)等。他在心理学领域的代表作则有《发现梦的意义》(1996)等。其多部著作入围全美图书销售50强排行榜。

加州大学圣克鲁兹分校心理学和社会学教授，精英研究领域中的领军人物之一。在这方面的主要著作有《谁统治美国》(1967年以来已出五个版本)、《权力精英和国家：在美国政策是如何制订的》(1990)、《国家自主性还是阶级支配？美国政策形成的个案研究》(1996)等。他在心理学领域的代表作则有《发现梦的意义》(1996)等。其多部著作入围全美图书销售50强排行榜。

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to corruption and reckless profiteering—with deadly consequences. Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines r...(展开全部)

Our modern age is preeminently an Age of Ideology. It is true that in some sense of the term, ideology has always been and always will be with us. There has never been a time when human behavior, including political behavior, has not been largely affected by the mental images, or stereotypes, through which men have grown accustomed to perceive and judge the world around them......(展开全部)

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are being taken over by a variety of organizations which, whatever their precise natu...(展开全部)

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are being taken over by a variety of organizations which, whatever their precise natu...(展开全部)

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked th...(展开全部)