威廉•本内特是美国教育家和社会活动家，也是著名的畅销书作者。他的《美德书》和《儿童美德书》是美国过去十年中最成功的畅销书，曾在包括中国在内的65个国家出版发行。本内特1943年7月31日生于纽约布鲁克林，1965年在威廉斯学院获哲学学士学位，1970年获德克萨斯大学哲学博士学位，1971年获哈佛大学法学博士学位；1981-1985年担任全国人文学科基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities）主席，1985-1988年为里根政府的教育部长，1989-1990年任全国毒品控制政策办公室主任。目前为止，他先后写作和主编了16本书，在美国很多有影响的报刊上发表大量文章评论，经常做客于美国一些有影响的电视节目中。在近几十年里，本内特被认为是“共和党人传统价值派的首席发言人”，对内宣传保守主义社会政策，对外主张强硬的外交路...(展开全部)

威廉•本内特是美国教育家和社会活动家，也是著名的畅销书作者。他的《美德书》和《儿童美德书》是美国过去十年中最成功的畅销书，曾在包括中国在内的65个国家出版发行。本内特1943年7月31日生于纽约布鲁克林，1965年在威廉斯学院获哲学学士学位，1970年获德克萨斯大学哲学博士学位，1971年获哈佛大学法学博士学位；1981-1985年担任全国人文学科基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities）主席，1985-1988年为里根政府的教育部长，1989-1990年任全国毒品控制政策办公室主任。目前为止，他先后写作和主编了16本书，在美国很多有影响的报刊上发表大量文章评论，经常做客于美国一些有影响的电视节目中。在近几十年里，本内特被认为是“共和党人传统价值派的首席发言人”，对内宣传保守主义社会政策，对外主张强硬的外交路...(展开全部)

威廉•本内特是美国教育家和社会活动家，也是著名的畅销书作者。他的《美德书》和《儿童美德书》是美国过去十年中最成功的畅销书，曾在包括中国在内的65个国家出版发行。本内特1943年7月31日生于纽约布鲁克林，1965年在威廉斯学院获哲学学士学位，1970年获德克萨斯大学哲学博士学位，1971年获哈佛大学法学博士学位；1981-1985年担任全国人文学科基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities）主席，1985-1988年为里根政府的教育部长，1989-1990年任全国毒品控制政策办公室主任。目前为止，他先后写作和主编了16本书，在美国很多有影响的报刊上发表大量文章评论，经常做客于美国一些有影响的电视节目中。在近几十年里，本内特被认为是“共和党人传统价值派的首席发言人”，对内宣传保守主义社会政策，对外主张强硬的外交路...(展开全部)

Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with Still the Best Hope, and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and the only alternatives to the “American Trinity” of liberty, natural rights, and...(展开全部)

Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with Still the Best Hope, and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and the only alternatives to the “American Trinity” of liberty, natural rights, and...(展开全部)

The Triumph of Empire takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Michael Kulikowski’s history begins with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable frontiers, and spans to the decades after Constantine the Great, who overhauled the government, i...(展开全部)

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of thei...(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)

In this ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom,...(展开全部)