How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. The authors revitalise the debate around the rise of the Chinese economy through the use of primary sources, persu...(展开全部)

Review In this insightful book, Ron Purser has evaluated the strengths and weakness of the mindfulness movement, while clearly showing the way to cultivate authentic mindfulness that liberates us from the true causes of individual and collective suffering.” - B. Alan Wallace, President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies “Far from being either a harmless form of ...(展开全部)

How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such ...(展开全部)

菲利普·鲍尔，1962年生，英国久负盛名的科学作家，曾先后担任《自然》杂志的物理学科编辑和顾问编辑，是《<自然>百年科学经典（英汉对照版）》丛书的两位英方主编之一，擅长从科学与历史、社会和艺术的互动中窥探科学的成就、挫折、趣味和荣光。

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the w...(展开全部)

From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia and—yes—the globe exploring how we came to understand our spherical planet. The Globe tells the story of humanity’s quest to discover the form of the world: that the Earth is round and not flat. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the know...(展开全部)

How do social relations, or guanxi, matter in China today and how can this distinctive form of personal connection be better understood? In Guanxi: How China Works, Yanjie Bian analyzes the forms, dynamics, and impacts of guanxi relations in reform-era China, and shows them to be a crucial part of the puzzle of how Chinese society operates. Rich in original studies and insightf...(展开全部)

How do social relations, or guanxi, matter in China today and how can this distinctive form of personal connection be better understood? In Guanxi: How China Works, Yanjie Bian analyzes the forms, dynamics, and impacts of guanxi relations in reform-era China, and shows them to be a crucial part of the puzzle of how Chinese society operates. Rich in original studies and insightf...(展开全部)

Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodge-podge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's qu...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·格林布兰特，著名的文学批评家、理论家，当代西方学术界新历史主义批语流派的泰斗级人物，近二十年来最有影响力的莎学家之一。现任哈佛大学人文学教授、美国艺术与科学学院成员。2000年，被哈佛大学校长任命为John Cogan学院教授，系哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉，仅有19名哈佛教授获此殊荣，专门从事跨越传统学科界限的前沿性学术研究。作者获得哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉时，正在从事两个研究项目，本书就是其中一个项目的研究成果。曾在牛津大学、柏林大学、东京大学、北京大学等世界知名大学任客座教授。曾发表几十篇学术论文，出版十余部学术著作，并多次获奖。他在莎学方面的代表作有《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造——从莫尔到莎士比亚》（1980）、《莎士比亚式的协商：文艺复兴时期英国的社会能量的流通》（1988）等等。2004年出版即荣登《纽约时报》十佳图书榜的《俗世威...(展开全部)