纳扬·昌达毕业于加尔各答著名的总统学院，获得历史学学位。他经常为《国际先驱论坛报》的观点版撰稿，也是布鲁金斯学会东北亚政策研究中心顾问委员会的成员，2005年获得了肖伦斯坦新闻奖。昌达还是“耶鲁全球在线”的创始人和主编。 译者简介 顾捷昕，安徽师范大学英语教师。从译数十年，一直坚持“英文理解，中文演绎”的原则。但是“演绎”实属走钢丝，必须在忠实于原著和圆通于译著之间找到平衡，唯有尽力而已。

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconn...(展开全部)

This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international r...(展开全部)

Learn how to generate profit, from history's most celebrated traders including William J. O'Neil, Jesse Livermore, and others In How Legendary Traders Made Millions, award-winning investment author and historian John Boik has created the first book to put the strategies of history's top traders in one place Revealing how each trader took advantage of distinct market situations,...(展开全部)

Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Roma...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛格丽特•麦克米伦（Margaret MacMillan），历史研究与国际关系领域的领军人物，也是牛津大学国际历史系的名誉教授和多伦多大学历史学教授。曾担任多伦多大学三一学院和牛津大学圣安东尼学院的院长。麦克米伦的曾外祖父就是《缔造和平》的主角之一、英国前首相劳合•乔治，她的多部作品均与其曾外祖父从政的时代背景密切相关。《缔造和平》一书是麦克米伦的代表作，斩获达夫•库珀杰作奖、西塞尔•提尔曼历史著作奖、塞缪尔•约翰逊非虚构类杰作奖等众多奖项。她于2021年获得了普利兹克军事写作终身成就文学奖。 她此前的作品包括《缔造和平：1919巴黎和会及其开启的战后世界》《和平戛然而止：通往1914年之路》《当尼克松遇上毛泽东：改变世界的一周》《历史的运用与滥用》等。 译者简介 巴扬，译者，曾担任出版策划编辑，北京大学中国文学专业与国际关系专业双学士，英...(展开全部)

The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and c...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛格丽特•麦克米伦（Margaret MacMillan），历史研究与国际关系领域的领军人物，也是牛津大学国际历史系的名誉教授和多伦多大学历史学教授。曾担任多伦多大学三一学院和牛津大学圣安东尼学院的院长。麦克米伦的曾外祖父就是《缔造和平》的主角之一、英国前首相劳合•乔治，她的多部作品均与其曾外祖父从政的时代背景密切相关。《缔造和平》一书是麦克米伦的代表作，斩获达夫•库珀杰作奖、西塞尔•提尔曼历史著作奖、塞缪尔•约翰逊非虚构类杰作奖等众多奖项。她于2021年获得了普利兹克军事写作终身成就文学奖。 她此前的作品包括《缔造和平：1919巴黎和会及其开启的战后世界》《和平戛然而止：通往1914年之路》《当尼克松遇上毛泽东：改变世界的一周》《历史的运用与滥用》等。 译者简介 巴扬，译者，曾担任出版策划编辑，北京大学中国文学专业与国际关系专业双学士，英...(展开全部)

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees 'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins _________________________ Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first ...(展开全部)

To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives. Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts argues that tropical forests have shaped nearly every aspect of life on earth. They made the planet habitable, enabled the rise of dinosaurs and mammals, and...(展开全部)