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.

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all reference...(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)

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)

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)

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)

The first volume in Issac Asimov's world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series.

埃里克·埃克（Erick Eyck（1878—1964），生于德国柏林，曾就读于柏林大学和弗莱堡大学，以法律记者、议员的身份在上诉法院从事法律工作。1937年为躲避纳粹迫害，他移居英国，在伦敦大学和牛津大学讲学，并开始反思德意志民族崛起之路。埃克博士论著宏富，著有《魏玛共和国史》（商务印书馆，1994）、《俾斯麦研究》等论著。《俾斯麦与德意志帝国》是他以牛津大学的课堂讲义为基础写成的总结性专著，是公认的经典之作。

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.