From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win. Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investin...(展开全部)

【美】 帕拉格 ·康纳 （Parag Khanna） 帕拉格是全球战略家，畅销书作家，风靡TED讲坛的主讲人，美国国家情报委员会顾问，新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院高级研究员，新美国基金会负责人，布鲁金斯学会研究员，2007年出任美国特种作战司令部高级地缘政治顾问。他也是美国有线电视新闻网、英国广播公司、《纽约时报》、《金融时报》等全球知名媒体特约供稿人，被《时尚先生》评为“21世纪最有影响力人物之一”，荣登美国著名杂志《连线》“智慧人物”排行榜。帕拉格在乔治敦大学获学士、硕士学位，获得伦敦经济学院博士学位，曾著有《第二世界：大国时代的全球新秩序》《如何转动世界：全球未来的复兴之路》，合著有TED系列大热作品《混合现实》，他游历近100个国家，被达沃斯世界经济论坛授予“全球青年领袖”荣誉称号。帕拉格的网站：paragkhanna.com。

雅尼斯·瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis，1961— ），希腊当代著名政治经济学家，主要研究领域为政治经济学和博弈论，曾先后任教埃塞克斯大学、东英吉利大学、悉尼大学、雅典大学、德克萨斯大学，现为雅典大学经济学教授。2015年1月出任希腊财政部长，7月辞职。他还著有《博弈论批判导引》、《现代政治经济学》（合著）等作品。

The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions among transnational corporatio...(展开全部)

Widely adopted throughout the world, this definitive text comprehensively examines how the global economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken provides a balanced yet critical analysis of globalization processes and debates. The text synthesizes a wealth of data on production, distribution, consumption, and innovation, including detailed case studies of key ...(展开全部)

In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war. In The Deadly...(展开全部)

In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war. In The Deadly...(展开全部)

默文·金（Mervyn King），英国经济学家，英国央行前行长。默文·金从1991年起历任英国央行首席经济学家、副行长，并于2003～2013年任英国央行行长，现为美国纽约大学经济学与法学教授、英国伦敦政治经济学院经济学教授。默文·金于2013年被英国女王封为终身贵族，2014年被授予嘉德勋位。

威尔•杜兰特（Will Durant，1885-1981），先后在美国圣彼得学院和哥伦比亚大学接受高等教育，后来进入哥伦比亚大学研究生物学，并在杜威的指导下攻读哲学，1971年获哥大博士学位。1926年，他出版了《哲学的故事》，获得出乎意料的成功，随后，他花了四十余年的 时间完成了广受好评的重要著作——11卷的《世界文明史》。 他于1968年获得普利策奖，1977年获得自由勋章奖。终其一生，杜兰特都致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来。

In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from ...(展开全部)