First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

托马斯·索维尔，美国当代杰出的自由主义经济学大师，芝加哥经济学派代表人物之一。现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员，曾在康奈尔大学、加州大学等讲授经济学，还在政府部门担任经济学顾问，获得过包括总统人文成就奖、全国人文学科奖、布莱德雷基金奖在内的众多荣誉。 他著有《美国种族简史》《知识分子与社会》《财富、贫穷与政治》等30多部作品，其中一些多次再版。他的《经济学的思维方式》（Basic Economics）一书已被译成六种语言。其文章和随笔发表于《财富》《时代周刊》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等知名媒体。

《中国大学1895-1995》作者许美德教授，是当今国际著名比较教育学家，也是国际上最负盛名的中国高等教育研究专家之一，曾任加拿大驻中国大使馆文化参赞，加拿大多伦多大学安大略教育研究院高等教育系教授、系主任，安大略教育研究院院长等职，现任香港教育学院院长，世界比较教育与国际教育学会理事长。 《中国大学1895-1995》的英文版于1996年在美国出版后，很快销售一空，在教育界和学术界产生了很大的反响，并于当年获美国《Choice》杂志杰出学术著作奖。国外学者认为，“Ruth Hayhoe就是财富：任何一个对现代中国比较教育和知识社会学感兴趣的人，都不能不读她的著作。”

This is the second volume of a two-volume social history of nineteenth-century Hankow, a city of over one million inhabitants and the commercial hub of central China. In the first volume, Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (1984), the author emphasized the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to its hinterland, and the corpor...(展开全部)

This second volume of a two-volume social history of Hankow focuses on the people of Hankow, in all their ethnic diversity, occupational variety, constant mobility, and social bonds.

Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have climate changes had on human prosperity and the spirit of invention? In this major new book Wolfgang Behringer introduces us to th...(展开全部)

How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Indi...(展开全部)

How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Indi...(展开全部)

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed...(展开全部)

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed...(展开全部)