Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on? With wit and erudition, Ronald Wright lays out a-convincing case that history has always pro...(展开全部)

In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main thinkers-Locke,Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, Sieyes and others-have been bound up with the defense of the thoroug...(展开全部)

多米尼克•洛苏尔多（Domenico Losurdo，1941— ） 意大利著名历史哲学家、黑格尔哲学研究专家、马克思主义哲学史专家。意大利乌尔比诺大学哲学史教授、教育学院院长，国际黑格尔—马克思辩证思想学会主席。研究自由主义、自由主义与共产主义的关系及其解放战争等主题的重要学者，致力于通过解构史料来挑战我们时代操控历史的意识形态。 著有《黑格尔与现代人的自由》《黑格尔与自由主义者》《黑格尔与德国大灾难》《海德格尔与战争意识形态》《从自由主义到批判的共产主义》《历史中的修正主义》《最初的20世纪罪行》和《脱离历史》等。《自由主义批判史》于2005年在意大利出版，反响极大，一年内再版三次，并被译为多种语言。

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(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)

约翰·博德利，美国当代著名文化人类学家，华盛顿州立大学人类学教授，1992-1996年任该校人类学系主任，2001年被评为人类学梅耶杰出教授，现为该校Regents讲座教授。1987年任西德兴格拉德巴赫公司科学顾问，1991-1994年为美国科学促进协会科学自由与责任委员会人权小组委员会成员，2000年任华盛顿哥伦比亚特区国家人文基金会专门小组成员。主要研究领域为原住民、文化生态学、当今社会问题。主要著作除本书外，还有《人类学与当今人类问题》以及《文化人类学：部落、国家及全球体系》。

Victims of Progress provides a global overview of the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies and the colonists and corporate developers that invaded their territories over the past 200 years to extract resources. It shows how these small-scale societies have survived by organizing politically to defend their basic human rights, and shows that they are now being impac...(展开全部)

Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon i...(展开全部)

This is a contemporary and engaging student friendly text with a multinational focus conveys the dynamism of the science of psychology. Student focused features offer social context, explore interdisciplinary relationships, reinforce critical thinking and ultimately show the impact and application of the science. Each chapter of this title begins with a highly engaging vignette...(展开全部)