A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Y...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

作者：[美]沙希利·浦洛基（Serhii Plokhy） 哈佛大学乌克兰史米哈伊洛·赫鲁舍夫斯基讲席教授、哈佛大学乌克兰研究中心主任，生于俄罗斯，成长于乌克兰，专攻东欧思想、文化、国际关系史，著有《雅尔塔：改变世界格局的八天》《大国的崩溃：苏联解体的台前幕后》等十余部专 著，获奖众多，包括非虚构类两大标杆奖项莱昂内尔·盖尔伯奖与贝利·吉福德奖，以及俄罗斯研究领域的权威奖项普希金图书奖，他也是唯一两获普希金图书奖的获奖者。 译者： 宋虹，上海大学英美文学专业硕士，主要作品有《大国的崩溃——苏联解体的台前幕后》等。 崔瑞，香港城市大学语文学翻译与传译硕士。

In 2011, a forty-three foot high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was n...(展开全部)

In 2011, a forty-three foot high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was n...(展开全部)

作者:(美)埃里克·希雷 译者:郑世彦 译者:刘思诗 译者:柴丹 译者:张潇涵 埃里克·希雷(Eric Shiraev)，埃里克·希雷是一位教授、研究员和作者。他在俄罗斯圣彼得堡大学获得学士学位，在美国加州大学洛杉矶分校完成了博士后项目，先后任职于美国俄勒冈州立大学、乔治·华盛顿大学、乔治·梅森大学。他的研究兴趣广泛，曾独自撰写、与人合著多部关于跨文化心理学、政治心理学、心理学史的著作。在他的著作中，他开发出一种独特的、跨学科的方法来分析人类行为。除了教学和学术工作外，他还为世界各地的媒体撰写评论文章。他的个人网站是www.ericshiraev.com。

How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. Covering the long span...(展开全部)

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, ...(展开全部)