Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

The the final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements...(展开全部)

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank ...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

乌尔里希•贝克 Ulrich Beck 1944年生于斯武普斯克, 曾在弗莱堡和慕尼黑学习过社会学，哲学，心理学和政治学。目前在慕尼黑大学和伦敦经济学院教授社会学。 伊丽莎白•贝克 Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim爱尔兰根-纽伦堡大学的社会学教授。她主要研究社会变化产生的问题与家庭在社会中角色的变化。

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in eve...(展开全部)

雅尼斯·瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis，1961— ），希腊当代著名政治经济学家，主要研究领域为政治经济学和博弈论，曾先后任教埃塞克斯大学、东英吉利大学、悉尼大学、雅典大学、德克萨斯大学，现为雅典大学经济学教授。2015年1月出任希腊财政部长，7月辞职。他还著有《博弈论批判导引》、《现代政治经济学》（合著）等作品。

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two mil...(展开全部)

During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries re...(展开全部)