This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days an...(展开全部)

Stephen Greenblatt―Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World―investigates the life of one of humankind’s greatest stories. Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising only a few ancien...(展开全部)

The financial and economic collapse that began in the United States in 2008 and spread to the rest of the world c ontinues to burden the global economy. David Kotz, who was one of the few academic economists to predict it, argues that the ongoing economic crisis is not simply the aftermath of financial panic and an unusually severe recession but instead is a structural crisis o...(展开全部)

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics...(展开全部)

[美]爱德华•德瑞（Edward Drea），毕业于纽约州布法罗市凯尼休斯学院，曾在日本和越南服过兵役。后经学习，在日本东京上智大学获得国际关系学的文科硕士，并又于堪萨斯大学取得了日本现代史专业的博士学位。他曾任教于堪萨斯州利文沃思堡美国陆军指挥参谋学院和宾夕法尼亚州美国陆军战争学院。他还曾担任华盛顿特区美国陆军军事历史中心研究与分析部门的主管。他的其他著作包括《麦克阿瑟的超极机密：对日密码战 1942-1945》（MacArthur’s ULTRA：Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945）和《效忠天皇：日本陆军研究文集》(In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army)。