Corruption, fake news, and the "informational autocracy" sustaining Putin in power After fading into the background for many years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly has emerged as a new threat--at least in the minds of many Westerners. But Western assumptions about Russia, and in particular about political decision-making in Russia, tend to be out of d...(展开全部)

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: B...(展开全部)

迈克尔·康奈利是深受比尔·克林顿、米克·贾格尔等人喜爱的悬疑小说家，他被《GQ》称为“世界上最好的悬疑小说家”。他的小说迄今销售了7400多万册，被翻译成40种文字，并且几乎每一部都能登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的榜首。迈克尔·康奈利从事小说创作之前，在《洛杉矶时报》担任犯 罪新闻记者，丰富的经历为他的写作提供了坚实的基础。1992年，他创作了以洛杉矶警探哈里·博斯为主角的小说《黑色回声》，获得1993年爱伦·坡奖的最佳处女作奖。目前，“哈里·博斯系列”小说已出版了20部。

MICHAEL MCFAUL is professor of political science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served for five years in the Obama administration, first at the White House as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs at t...(展开全部)

This book offers for the first time a conceptual history of compromise. Alin Fumurescu combines contextual historical analysis of daily parlance and a survey of the usage of the word from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century in both French and English with an analysis of canonical texts in the history of political thought. This book fills ...(展开全部)

This book offers for the first time a conceptual history of compromise. Alin Fumurescu combines contextual historical analysis of daily parlance and a survey of the usage of the word from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century in both French and English with an analysis of canonical texts in the history of political thought. This book fills ...(展开全部)