贝淡宁(Daniel A．Bell) 清华大学《北京)伦理学和政治理论教授。贝教授生于蒙特利尔，受学麦吉尔大学和牛津大学，曾在新加坡和香港的大学任教，还在普林斯顿大学和斯坦福大学从事研究工作。著有《社群主义及其批评》(牛津大学出版社1993年，生活·读书·新知三联书店2001年)，另有四本有关亚洲政治和哲学的著作均在普林斯顿大学出版社出版。他还在北京的《读书》、美国的《异见者》和《新闻周刊》等杂志发表文章，并在英国《卫报》之”自由评论博客”、美国《纽约时报》、《国际先驱者论坛报》、中国《环球时报》、加拿大多伦多《环球邮报》的媒体发表评论。他还接受了NPR、BBC、CBC以及中国数家媒体的专访。

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal exper...(展开全部)

One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes—one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large molecules, and one in peace, for helping to end nuclear bomb testing. His brilliance was allied with a certain stubbornness, and when he died in 1994, at the age of 93, he was embro...(展开全部)

In nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James McGrath Morris chronicles the epic story of Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who amassed great wealth and extraordinary power during his remarkable rise through America...(展开全部)

Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet, in nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James McGrath Morris traces the epic story of this Je...(展开全部)

A penetrating examination of the central issues, trends, and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities they present to America and the world.

Uses game theory to create a set of basic strategic principles for sports, politics, business, and personal life.

The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century. Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting a framework for understanding the relations among individual action, social ...(展开全部)

Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues ...(展开全部)