Stephanie Dalley explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of rediscovery in recent times is evident in Euro...(展开全部)

With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.” Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author...(展开全部)

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods...(展开全部)

Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 理查德·沃林（Richard Wolin），美国政治思想史家，著名国际左翼学者，纽约市立大学研究生院历史、比较文学和政治学杰出教授，著有《存在的政治》《瓦尔特·本雅明：救赎美学》《文化批评的观念》《海德格尔的弟子》《非理性的诱惑》等多部作品。 ··· 【译者简介】 董树宝 博士，副教授，巴黎高等师范学校访问学者，现担任北方工业大学跨文化研究中心主任，主要从事法国当代哲学与美学、中西比较哲学、西方文学与文论的教学与研究工作，译作另有《混沌互渗》、《对话》（待出）、《<荒岛>及其他文本》（合译，待出）等。