In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged ...(展开全部)

格尔森·S. 谢尔（Gerson Sher），1969年在耶鲁大学获得俄罗斯研究学士学位，1975年在普林斯顿大学获得政治学博士学位。2008年6月，获得莫斯科工程物理研究所（现在为国立核能研究大学-莫斯科工程物理研究学院）颁发的荣誉博士学位，该学院是俄罗斯培养核科学家和工程师的一所大学。正是该学位促使他从事了美国和俄罗斯科技合作项目的工作。他一生致力于在科学合作、国际事务和全球安全的交叉领域工作。还曾在美国国家科学基金会工作了20年。

格尔森·S. 谢尔（Gerson Sher），1969年在耶鲁大学获得俄罗斯研究学士学位，1975年在普林斯顿大学获得政治学博士学位。2008年6月，获得莫斯科工程物理研究所（现在为国立核能研究大学-莫斯科工程物理研究学院）颁发的荣誉博士学位，该学院是俄罗斯培养核科学家和工程师的一所大学。正是该学位促使他从事了美国和俄罗斯科技合作项目的工作。他一生致力于在科学合作、国际事务和全球安全的交叉领域工作。还曾在美国国家科学基金会工作了20年。

This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationali...(展开全部)

2004 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association 2004 Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, the mosaic of cultures was modernised and homogeni...(展开全部)

彼得•伯克（Peter Burke），英国著名历史学家。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院研究员。伯克的研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史，致力于史学与社会科学理论的沟通，探索文化史写作的新领地，是当代最著名的新文化史学家之一。著作宏富，包括《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》、《法国史学革命》、《历史写作的新视野》、《20世纪的历史与历史学家》、《什么是文化史》、《文化史的多样性》、《图像证史》、《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种。

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the socia...(展开全部)

Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became again the ‘Pearl’ of the Iranian east Establishes a sequence and chronology for the Mongol attacks in eastern Iran Includes a political-military history of the Kart dynasty, from their founding in 649/1251 by Möngke Qaʾan, to their surrender to Tamerlane in 783/1381 Explores the renewal of agricultur...(展开全部)

The book, the summation of a lifetime of research on Indian Buddhism, is an exceptionally comprehensive discussion of Indian Buddhism. The text presents the debates of Indian Buddhism that have occurred in the Japanese academic community and emphasizes issues that have often been treated only in passing in India and the West. Finally, the book includes a bibliography which prov...(展开全部)