【作者简介】 伯纳德•克里克 生于1929年，曾先后就读于伦敦大学学院、伦敦经济学院、哈佛大学等校。1957－1965年先后任伦敦经济学院政治学助理讲师、讲师、高级讲师，1965－1971年任谢菲尔德大学政治理论与制度教授，1971－1984年任伦敦大学伯克贝克学院政治学与社会学教授。2002年获封爵士,2008年逝于爱丁堡。著有《美国的政治学》（1959）、《为政治辩护》（1962，此后多次再版）、《议会改革》（1964）、《乔治•奥威尔传》（1982）、《社会主义》（1987）、《牛津通识读本：民主》（2002）等。

【作者简介】 伯纳德•克里克 生于1929年，曾先后就读于伦敦大学学院、伦敦经济学院、哈佛大学等校。1957－1965年先后任伦敦经济学院政治学助理讲师、讲师、高级讲师，1965－1971年任谢菲尔德大学政治理论与制度教授，1971－1984年任伦敦大学伯克贝克学院政治学与社会学教授。2002年获封爵士,2008年逝于爱丁堡。著有《美国的政治学》（1959）、《为政治辩护》（1962，此后多次再版）、《议会改革》（1964）、《乔治•奥威尔传》（1982）、《社会主义》（1987）、《牛津通识读本：民主》（2002）等。

- Introduces in a clear and concise way the most important basic findings and procedures of evolutionary biology - Looks at the evidence for evolution, eg the fossil record, the distribution of species, the similarities and differences between organisms - A section at the end looks at the seemingly difficult problems for the theory of evolution - Explains adaptation and natural...(展开全部)

Exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and tracing its course over two millennia, Linda Woodhead provides a fresh, lively, and candid portrait of Christianity's past and present. Addressing topics including the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches' use of power, and its struggles with modernity, this new editi...(展开全部)

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes reader...(展开全部)

This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. In this fascinating Very...(展开全部)

Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point, except for the most introverted, in coming to terms with its grubby concepts, spells, recipes, and rules. Peter Atkins wants to change all tha...(展开全部)

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of histo...(展开全部)