Once upon a time ‘The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as ‘the master narrative’ serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narr...(展开全部)

Once upon a time ‘The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as ‘the master narrative’ serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narr...(展开全部)

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific d...(展开全部)

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific d...(展开全部)

羅傑．克勞利 英國著名歷史學家，其父親是海軍軍官，曾駐防於地中海各地，故作者在年輕時就跟隨父親在地中海各處度過很長的歲月，因而對地中海世界的歷史文化產生濃厚興趣。作者在劍橋完成學業後，曾赴伊斯坦堡任教，花了很多時間考察該座城市，也曾徒步遊覽土耳其西部。前述經歷使得作者擁有淵博的地中海歷史與地理知識，著作有「地中海史詩三部曲」：《海洋帝國》、《一四五三》、《財富之城》，以及《征服者：葡萄牙帝國的崛起》、《1291阿卡圍城戰》（以上繁中版均由馬可孛羅出版）等書。 相關著作：《征服者：葡萄牙帝國的崛起》《1453：君士坦丁堡的陷落》《海洋帝國：伊斯蘭與基督教勢力邊界爭霸的時代》《財富之城：海洋霸權威尼斯共和國》《1291阿卡圍城戰：十字軍保衛聖地的最後一戰》《征服者：葡萄牙帝國的崛起》《財富之城：威尼斯共和國的海洋霸權》《1453：君士坦丁堡的陷落》《海洋...(展开全部)

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Po...(展开全部)

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Por...(展开全部)

A vivid forecast of our planet in the year 2050 by a rising star in geoscience, distilling cutting-edge research into four global forces: demographic trends, natural resource demand, climate change, and globalization. The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, our environment is degrading, and the costs of resources from oil to water are going nowhere...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)