Brendan Burns (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) teaches game development in the department of Computer Science at Union College in Schenectady, New York. At Union, he also researches the role that games can play in general Computer Science education. In addition to his academic work, Brendan is a maintainer of the port of Id Software's bestselling game, "Quake II" to L...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D. 卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan，1952— ）美国著名地缘政治专家，18本外交政策和游记类畅销书作者，《大西洋月刊》资深主笔、知名记者，美国安全中心高级研究员，欧亚集团高级参谋。他两度被《外交政策》评为“全球100位顶尖思想者”之一 ，其作品影响了克林顿和小布什两位美国总统的军事决策。 卡普兰游历了近70个国家，对世界政治局势和地缘政治深有体会，擅长运用游记的写作手法处理新闻和政治议题，其作品兼具文学性与地缘政治分析的严肃性，他与弗朗西斯•福山、保罗•肯尼迪和塞缪尔•亨廷顿并称“被最广泛阅读的描绘后冷战世界的作家”。卡普兰最具影响力的著作《无政府时代的来临》被评价为足以与塞缪尔·亨廷顿《文明的冲突》相媲美的经典作品。其代表作另有《巴尔干的幽魂》《季风：印度洋与美国权力的未来》《即将到来的地缘战争》《世界的尽头》《东进鞑靼》《回...(展开全部)

Having spent more than two decades reporting on ethnic strife and political upheaval in far-flung regions of the world, Kaplan (Balkan Ghosts), turns to his own backyard, trekking across the American West, Mexico and western Canada to map out America's shifting socio-political landscape at the turn of the millennium. The nation, he argues, is losing its identity as one union an...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D. 卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan，1952— ）美国著名地缘政治专家，18本外交政策和游记类畅销书作者，《大西洋月刊》资深主笔、知名记者，美国安全中心高级研究员，欧亚集团高级参谋。他两度被《外交政策》评为“全球100位顶尖思想者”之一 ，其作品影响了克林顿和小布什两位美国总统的军事决策。 卡普兰游历了近70个国家，对世界政治局势和地缘政治深有体会，擅长运用游记的写作手法处理新闻和政治议题，其作品兼具文学性与地缘政治分析的严肃性，他与弗朗西斯•福山、保罗•肯尼迪和塞缪尔•亨廷顿并称“被最广泛阅读的描绘后冷战世界的作家”。卡普兰最具影响力的著作《无政府时代的来临》被评价为足以与塞缪尔·亨廷顿《文明的冲突》相媲美的经典作品。其代表作另有《巴尔干的幽魂》《季风：印度洋与美国权力的未来》《即将到来的地缘战争》《世界的尽头》《东进鞑靼》《回...(展开全部)

Having spent more than two decades reporting on ethnic strife and political upheaval in far-flung regions of the world, Kaplan (Balkan Ghosts), turns to his own backyard, trekking across the American West, Mexico and western Canada to map out America's shifting socio-political landscape at the turn of the millennium. The nation, he argues, is losing its identity as one union an...(展开全部)

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this utterly surprising an...(展开全部)

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this utterly surprising an...(展开全部)

This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world. On a summer day in