Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of l...(展开全部)

This book explores the long-term forces shaping business attitudes in the British and American cotton industries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces social, political and developmental differences from the early stages of industrialization. She demonstrates how firms become embedded in networks, and evolve according to business values and strategies. ...(展开全部)

This book explores the long term forces shaping business attitudes in the British and American cotton industries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces the social, political and developmental differences of the two nations, and examines local and regional networks, changing competitive environments, and community characteristics. She demonstrates how fir...(展开全部)

As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world’s second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the cont...(展开全部)

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

What the British 'knew' about China changed fundamentally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, China became a key focus of British commercial and missionary interests, creating urgent demand for new knowledge about the country. This change in British understanding of and views about Chinese language, culture, politics and economy has typica...(展开全部)

What the British 'knew' about China changed fundamentally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, China became a key focus of British commercial and missionary interests, creating urgent demand for new knowledge about the country. This change in British understanding of and views about Chinese language, culture, politics and economy has typica...(展开全部)

If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed...(展开全部)