吉奥乔·阿甘本(1942- )，欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授，意大利维罗拉大学美学教授，并在巴黎国际哲学学院教授哲学。他在攻读博士后阶段，参与了由马丁·海德格尔主持的研讨会，并主持了瓦尔特·本雅明意大利译本的翻译工作。阿甘本对文学理论，欧陆哲学，政治思想，宗教研究以及文学和艺术的融会贯通，使他成为当代最著名的思想家之一。

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate...(展开全部)

Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teac...(展开全部)

〔英〕保罗·普雷斯顿（Paul Preston） 英国二等勋爵（CBE），历史学家，国际西班牙历史研究的领军人物。伦敦经济学院（LSE）西班牙研究首席教授。他研究西班牙历史长达三十多年，著述丰厚。因其卓越的学术研究，获得很多荣誉，包括大英帝国勋章，伊莎贝拉女王勋章，塞缪尔·约翰逊奖（享有盛誉的非虚构类写作奖）等。主要著作：《西班牙大屠杀》《西班牙内战》《佛朗哥传》《民主国王胡安·卡洛斯传》等。

Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political process...(展开全部)

Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political process...(展开全部)

查尔斯·蒂利（Charles Tilly，1929-2008），著名历史社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“21世纪社会学之父”。撰写和主编了大量有关政治过程、不平等以及欧洲史等方面的论文与作品，同时出版了20多部学术著作。蒂利曾在特拉华大学（University of Delaware）、哈佛大学（Harvard University）、多伦多大学（the University of Toronto）、密歇根大学（the University of Michigan）任教，并开展学术研究。目前，蒂利是哥伦比亚大学的约瑟夫·伯滕威泽（the Joseph L.Buttenwieser）讲座教授。