作者简介 阿尔弗雷德•考尔德科特，享有世界声誉的英国哲学家、史学家，剑桥大学道德科学协会奠基人，伦敦国王学院逻辑与精神哲学协会主席、伦敦国王学院院长。从1896年到1898年，他被聘为维多利亚女王的御讲。在不到三年的时间里，他为维多利亚女王系统地讲述了英国的殖民史。 译者简介 周亚莉，女，甘肃西和人。1996年毕业于西北师范大学外语系英语教育专业，获文学学士学位并留校任教。2006年毕业于西北师范大学外国语学院英语语言文学专业（翻译理论与实践方向），获文学硕士学位。2007年晋升副教授。2008年被遴选为硕士研究生导师。2014年毕业于西北师范大学教育学院课程与教学论专业（英语教学论方向），获教育学博士学位，同年晋升教授。2008年赴新西兰奥克兰大学访问学习。2011年赴英国朴茨茅斯大学访问学习。先后在《中国翻译》《甘肃社会科学》等期刊发表学术论文...(展开全部)

Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals, and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian Seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Sla...(展开全部)

Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals, and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian Seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Sla...(展开全部)

埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆（Eric Hobsbawm，1917—2012），享誉全球的思想大师、备受推崇的马克思主义史学大家，英国科学院院士及美国艺术和科学院外籍院士，先后被多个国家的大学授予名誉学位。 作为俄国十月革命的同龄人，1917年出生于埃及名城亚历山大港的一个中产家庭。父亲是移居英国的俄国犹太后裔，母亲来自哈布斯堡王朝统治下的奥地利。1919年，举家迁往维也纳，十年后父母相继去世，孤儿霍布斯鲍姆于1931年投奔叔父，徙居柏林，在“一战”后受创最深的德奥两国度过童年。希特勒上台后，1933年转赴英国，幸运地躲过之后的纳粹大屠杀，完成中学教育，并进入剑桥大学学习历史。“二战”爆发后，投笔从戎，至1946年退伍，回到剑桥完成博士学位，博士论文题目是英国费边社的历史。1947年成为伦敦大学伯克贝克学院讲师，1959年升任高级讲师，1978年成为该校经济和...(展开全部)

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.

Exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli's political vision was formed, Mikael Hornqvist stresses the classical and rhetorical character of Machiavelli's thought. He analyzes his preoccupation with glory and liberality in relation to the revival of Roman ideas of triumphalism. The result is a revealing account of the formation of Machiave...(展开全部)

It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recen...(展开全部)

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)

Isaac Asmiov's classic novel about the decline and fall of Solaria. Gladia Delmarre's homeworld, the Spacer planet Solaria, has been abandoned - by its human population. Countless robots remain there. And when traders from Settler worlds attempt to salvage them, the robots of Solaria turn to killing...in defiance of the Three Laws of Robotics. Pax Robotica Long ago, Gladia's...(展开全部)

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.