莱斯特·库尔茨（Lester Kurtz），耶鲁大学神学院宗教学硕士，芝加哥大学社会学博士，得克萨斯州立大学奥斯汀分校社会学教授、宗教研究中心主任，曾任美国和平与正义研究协会主席，美国社会学和平、战争和社会冲突分会主席，2005年被授予“罗宾?威廉斯杰出职业成就奖”（Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award）。他曾在芝加哥大学、西北大学、印度德里大学及台湾东大学等多所大学访学授课。 主要研究领域为比较宗教社会学、和平与冲突、西方和非西方社会理论等，一直在寻找解决暴力的出路，创建了一个暴力理论系统。曾创立及编辑多本重要学术刊物，主编《非暴、和平和冲突百科全书》，另与人合编《非暴力社会运动——一种地理学视角的分析》，代表作为《异端的政治——罗马天主教的现代主义危机》（获宗教科学研究协会杰出著作奖）。

In an era plagued by religious conflict, the Third Edition of Gods in the Global Village directly responds to issues of social problems prevalent in the world today. Using an engaging, thought-provoking style, Lester R. Kurtz focuses on the relationship among the major faith traditions that inform the thinking and ethical standards of most people in the emerging global social o...(展开全部)

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

查尔斯·西格尔（Charles Segal，1936-2002），美国古典学家。1961 年获哈佛大学博士学位。曾先后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，布朗大学，普林斯顿大学，自1990 年起在哈佛大学担任希腊文和拉丁文教授。西格尔擅长古典文学，研究领域广阔，在奥维德、荷马、塞涅卡和欧里庇得斯的研究方面均有建树，尤以解读诗歌为胜，是20世纪最为高产的古典学家之一。一生发表论文无数，出版专著21 部，除本书外，代表作还包括Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1969), Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981，中文版三联书店即出), Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae (1982), Lucretiu...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特是美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校杰出的研究型教授，曾任美国历史学会主席。她著作等身，包括《人权的发明》《历史的真相》等。目前她定居于洛杉矶。

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

The twentieth century has been a century of nationalism in China, beginning with the nationalist revolution of 1911. Drawing on the explosion of writings about nationalism in the Chinese speaking world, this new book highlights the main themes of the Chinese nationalist tradition and shows how they are central to the discourse of Chinese politics and foreign policy today. The s...(展开全部)

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

"The greetings that the village women exchanged with Mom conveyed an intimacy that made clear they had fully taken each other's measure. Their connection had been established to a sufficient degree for laughter to be easy. Mom had come to a real understanding with them, it seemed, and not just the women; she was welcomed and trusted by all. This made me proud, I remember, for m...(展开全部)