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肯·鲍曼现居美国新墨西哥州的圣达菲，曾从事演艺工作长达十年，在影视剧中出镜。他已创作过四部小说，还身兼出版商、图书设计师等职。 读库御宅学团队引进的“头目战”（Boss Fight Books）书系诞生于美国，每本书均专注于对一部经典游戏作品的台前幕后进行详尽分析解读，执笔者多为业内资深人士。

How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether those social arrangements (e.g. our family structures) reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If they do, compliance will serve our interests because these rules are not just conventions. Another approach is to ask whether...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly One of the best known, most torturous examples of fashionable alteration is Chinese foot binding. In Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, Barnard College history professor Dorothy Ko looks at the making and wearing of lotus shoes, the footwear for women with bound feet. Along the way she discredits some simplistic popular notions about foot binding a...(展开全部)

The history of physics since the discovery of X-rays would be too simplistic a description of this book. Certainly it covers the historical period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, but the book attempts to relate not only what has happened over the last hundred years or so, but why it happened the way it did, what it was like for those scientists involved, a...(展开全部)

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)

在线阅读本书 A strategy to profit when markets are range bound–which is half of the time One of the most significant challenges facing today’s active investor is how to make money during the times when markets are going nowhere. Bookshelves are groaning under the weight of titles written on investment strategy in bull markets, but there is little guidance on how to invest ...(展开全部)

The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on the textile trade. John Swire's sons, John Samuel (1825-1898) and William Hudson (1830-1884), took the firm overseas and it was John Samuel Swire in particular whose entrepreneurial instincts would be at the root of the firm's successes in years to c...(展开全部)