Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. "Their actions are exceedingly rude. They d...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

作者簡介 亞凱迪．歐卓夫斯基Arkady Ostrovsky 出生於俄國的英籍記者，在莫斯科撰寫報導十五年，首先服務於《金融時報》，接著擔任《經濟學人》莫斯科分部主任。他在莫斯科研讀俄羅斯戲劇史，並獲劍橋大學英語文學博士學位。他將湯姆．史塔佩（Tom Stoppard）的舞台劇三部曲《烏托邦之岸》（The Coast of Utopia）譯成俄語，於俄國演出與出版。本書獲得二〇一六年的歐威爾獎，即評選傑出政治評論著作與報導的年度獎項。 譯者簡介 楊芩雯 做過記者和編輯，現為專職譯者。報導文學譯作有《普丁的國家》、《總統的人馬》、《柬埔寨：被詛咒的國度》。譯作《強尼上戰場》獲二○一五年中國時報開卷好書獎翻譯類。

1st English Translation from Russian: "The Fate of Russia" is an insightful book by the eminent Russian religious philosopher, Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948). There is an "irony of fate" regarding the book in its "untimely" timeliness -- a collection of WWI related articles from 1914-1916, it was published in 1918 only after the Russian Communist 1917 Revolution and Russia's sub...(展开全部)

From “the great storyteller of Russian history” (Financial Times), a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its founding Who were the Rus, the ancient tribe from which the Russians trace their origins? Were they Baltic Slavs, hailing from within the territory that would become Russia? Or were they Vikings from ...(展开全部)

As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to devel...(展开全部)

As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)