From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)

作者牛军，北京大学国际关系学院教授，长期研究新中国外交，是在国内外颇具影响的学者。有多部中、英、日文著作出版 。

亨利·尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），专门从事自然科学写作的记者与作家，关心演化、生态、环保等议题。凭着深入浅出、轻松诙谐的文笔，以及在科学、历史与人文之间自在穿梭的功力，在世界知名报刊如《自然》《新科学家》《卫报》《独立报》上已发表上百篇文章。他的上一本书《寂寞的乔治》讲述的是加拉巴戈群岛上的一只陆龟，在2006年获选为英国《卫报》的一流好书奖，并入围英国皇家学会的综合图书奖。

Nicholls is surely set to become an author of many more fascinating science books. In many ways, this book is what good science writing is all about—explanation through a ripping narrative. (The independent [London] ) A fascinating story of an extraordinary animal. (Desmond Morris, famed zoologist and author of The Naked Ape ) A brilliant storyteller and narrative stylist in th...(展开全部)

Anthropologist Susan Brownell, heptathlon gold medallist in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. The book introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practice...(展开全部)

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United S...(展开全部)

In this exploration of modern American legal culture, Lawrence Friedman addresses the ways in which the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the legal systems and authority structures of Western society. Every aspect of law, he argues - from civil rights to personal-injury litigation - has been profoundly reshaped, reflecting the power of this concept.

In this imaginative exploration of modern legal culture, Lawrence Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the legal systems and authority structures of Western societies. Every aspect of law, he argues--from civil rights to personal-injury litigation to divorce law--has been profoundly reshaped, reflecting the power of this concept. The new...(展开全部)