Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movemen...(展开全部)

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movemen...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·麦克米伦 （Margaret MacMillan） 历史研究及国际关系领域的领军人物，现为牛津大学教授。麦克米伦的曾外祖是英国一战名相劳合·乔治，她的多部作品也与其外祖父的时代背景密切相关，囊括塞缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖、赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼奖等众多国际大奖。

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can ov...(展开全部)

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conve...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conve...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.

大卫 ·戈德布拉特生于1965年，现在英格兰莱斯特的德蒙福特大学和美国洛杉矶的匹泽学院任教。 他出版了多本备受赞誉的足球书籍:《足球是圆的》（The Ball is Round,2006)，这是一部惊人的、雄心勃勃的足球全球史；《我们生活的游戏》（The Game of Our Lives,2014），讲述了英国足球的意义和源起，这本书获得了威廉·希尔年度体育图书大奖；《足球国度》（Futebol Nation,2014），这是一部巴西足球的历史。他还编辑过《世界足球年鉴》（The World Football Yearbook），制作了多部体育纪录片，时常给《卫报》和《纽约时报》供稿。