查尔斯·蒂利(1929—2008) 著名社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“21世纪社会学之父”。曾任美国哥伦比亚大学约瑟夫·伯滕威泽社会科学教授，曾在特拉华大学、哈佛大学、多伦多大学、密歇根大学、社会研究新学院等校兼任教职；是美国国家科学院、美国艺术和科学研究院、美国哲学学会、美国艺术与科学促进会会员。 张熹珂，毕业于复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院政治学系，法学（政治学）博士。现为华东政法大学政府管理学院副教授，主要研究领域为政治学理论、比较政治。

查尔斯·蒂利(1929—2008) 著名社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“21世纪社会学之父”。曾任美国哥伦比亚大学约瑟夫·伯滕威泽社会科学教授，曾在特拉华大学、哈佛大学、多伦多大学、密歇根大学、社会研究新学院等校兼任教职；是美国国家科学院、美国艺术和科学研究院、美国哲学学会、美国艺术与科学促进会会员。 张熹珂，毕业于复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院政治学系，法学（政治学）博士。现为华东政法大学政府管理学院副教授，主要研究领域为政治学理论、比较政治。

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(展开全部)

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(展开全部)

This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer and more varied than commonly supposed.

This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer and more varied than commonly supposed.

The book of comparisons of distance, size, area, volume, mass, weight, density, energy, temperature, time, speed and number throughout the universe by the Diagram Group.