Sowell, in Conquests and Cultures, helps explain the role of cultural evolution and warfare in shaping the destinies of the world's civilizations.

托马斯·索威尔（Thomas Sowell） 美国经济学家、社会评论家；斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员，长期任职于康奈尔大学、加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校、艾姆赫斯特学院和其他学术机构以及智囊团；著有《美国种族简史》《经济学的思维方式》《歧视与不平等》等30部作品，常常在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华盛顿邮报》等媒体发表文章，曾获得“博伊尔奖”、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、“布莱德雷基金奖”等荣誉。

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's developm...(展开全部)

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's developm...(展开全部)

迈克尔•华纳（Michael Warner），美国国防部历史学家、前中央情报局和国家情报主任办公室历史学家，曾在美利坚大学、约翰•霍普金斯大学和哥伦比亚大学执教。他的研究方向包括情报历史、情报理论和改革。 黄日涵，任职于华侨大学国际关系学院，国际关系博士。中国与全球化智库研究员,凤凰国际智库高级研究员。 邱培兵，凤凰国际智库研究员。主要研究领域为比较语言学及实用词典学。

2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Honorable Mention, 2015 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty w...(展开全部)

The Mongol Empire can be seen as marking the beginning of the modern age, and of globalization as well. While communications between the extremes of Eurasia existed prior to the Mongols, they were infrequent and often through intermediaries. As this new book by Timothy May shows, the rise of the Mongol Empire changed everything—through their conquests the Mongols swept away doz...(展开全部)

The Mongol Empire can be seen as marking the beginning of the modern age, and of globalization as well. While communications between the extremes of Eurasia existed prior to the Mongols, they were infrequent and often through intermediaries. As this new book by Timothy May shows, the rise of the Mongol Empire changed everything—through their conquests the Mongols swept away doz...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the six...(展开全部)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory – all of them tending toward the elephant's ext...(展开全部)