A biography of a prototypical "renaissance man": scientist, philosopher, journalist, and politician.

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

The final part of Banffy's trilogy reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in Central Europe. In the foreground the lives of Balint, with his ultimately unhappy love for Adrienne, and his fatally flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect, are told with humour and a bitter-sweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. The sinister and fast...(展开全部)

Volume III of the Banffy Trilogy details events in Montenegro, the Balkan wars and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand as the youth of Hungary march gayly off not only to their death on the field of battle, but to the dismemberement of their once great country,

玛丽安娜·马祖卡托，是英国萨塞克斯大学(University of Sussex)科学政策研究所(Science Policy Research Unit) 创新经济学讲席教授，曾先后任教于丹佛大学(University of Denver)、伦敦商学院(London Business School)、开放大学(Open University)和博科尼大学(Bocconi University)。2014 年，她获得《新政治家》(New Statesman)颁发的政治经济学斯佩里奖(SPERI Prize)。2013 年，美国《新共和》(New Republic)杂志将她评为“重要的创新思想家”。她曾担任苏格兰政府和工党的经济顾问，世界经济论坛创新经济学全球议程委员会成员。她的在研项目得到欧盟委员会、新经济思维研究所、福特基金会、美国国家航空航天局、...(展开全部)