作者约翰·沃顿（John H. Walton），博士，美国惠顿学院教授，旧约研究专家，撰写及主编学术著作多部。

本杰明・史华兹（Ben jasmin l．Schwartz），生于1916年12月12日，卒于1999年11月14日。1960年起任哈佛大学教授，并以其博雅和睿智，在该校东亚中心被尊称为“学者的学者”。除了作为其扛鼎之作的本书，还写有《中国的共产主义和毛的兴起》（1951年）、《寻求富强：严复和西方》（1964年）、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》（1968年）、《中国文化的价值》（1985年）和《中国及其他》（199年）等。

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers...(展开全部)

伊迪丝•霍尔（Edith Hall）是英国杰出古典学者，欧洲人文和自然科学院院士，伦敦国王学院古典学系教授、希腊研究中心教授，曾任教于牛津大学、剑桥大学、杜伦大学、雷丁大学、皇家霍洛威学院。主要研究古希腊文学与文化史，擅长从文化史的角度切入古希腊人的生活世界。著有《古代奴隶与废奴》《希腊悲剧：阳光下的苦难》《尤利西斯返乡：〈奥德修斯〉的文化史》等数十部作品。曾荣获伊拉斯谟奖章、洪堡研究奖。

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was ...(展开全部)

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization - the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it wa...(展开全部)

The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized" world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning. The authors descr...(展开全部)

This book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Bestselling narrative of the complex history of the ancient Near East Addresses political, social, and cultural developments Contains in-depth discussion of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh Includes numerous maps, illustrat...(展开全部)

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the East – into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by en...(展开全部)

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the East – into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by en...(展开全部)