Thinking through political forms What should we do with the ideals of internationalism, the withering away of state and horizontality? Probably start by thinking seriously about them. That is to say, about their conditions of possibility (or impossibility), rather than sticking to the wishful thinking which asserts that for them to happen it is enough to want them. Humanity exi...(展开全部)

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity. Rejecting superficial assessments that would deem the ever-expandingplethora of cute texts triv...(展开全部)

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a s...(展开全部)

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a s...(展开全部)

Imperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the arrival of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939 to just before the Berlin Wall came down, as the USSR convulsed and died, Kapuscinski travelled thousands of miles and talked t...(展开全部)

By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia, of the doomed Aral Sea and Kiev . . . no pictures are necessary."--The Wall Street Journal. First time in paperback.

雷沙德·卡普钦斯基，波兰新闻和文学界一位里程碑式的人物。在四十余年驻外记者的生涯中，他的足迹遍及六十多个国家，特别是深入拉美、非洲、中东等人迹罕至的蛮荒地带，他更亲临火线，发回大量弥漫着硝烟的真实报道和照片。他一生亲历二十七场革命和政变，四次被判死刑，四十余次被关押。作为作家，他创作了二十余部文学作品，六次被提名诺贝尔文学奖候选人，被誉为20 世纪最具影响力的作家之一。其主要著作有《生命中的另一天》（1976）、《皇帝》（1978）、《伊朗王中王》（1982）、《帝国》（1993）、《太阳的影子》（1998）、《与希罗多德一起旅行》（2004）等。

罗伯特·哈里斯，一九五七年出生于英国诺丁汉，就读于剑桥大学塞尔文学院时已展露出过人才华，毕业后先后工作于英国广播公司、《观察家报》，并担任《星期日泰晤士报》和《每日电讯报》专栏作家。二00三年，罗伯特·哈里斯荣获英国新闻业者的最高荣誉、英国新闻业的奥斯卡——年度最佳专栏作家——的殊荣。他自一九九三年开始小说创作，首次出版的《祖国》（Fatherland）常被与奥威尔的名作《1984》相比。此后的《密码迷情》（Enigma）、《大天使》（Archangel）、《庞贝》（Pompeii）都是风靡欧美的畅销小说。其作品常常被拍摄成影视作品，国际大导演罗曼·波兰斯基对哈里斯的小说推崇备至。《最高权力》所属的西塞罗三部曲，是他截至目前最重要，也是最受欢迎的作品。

帕特里克·苏佩斯（Patrick Colonel Suppes，1922-），美国著名哲学家，哥伦比亚大学哲学博士，师从著名哲学家托马斯·内格尔。1952年起，他任教于斯坦福大学，1959-1992年担任社会科学数理研究中心主任。现为露西·斯特恩哲学教授，斯坦福大学荣誉退休教授。因在数学心理学方面的突出贡献，1965年苏佩斯教授被选为国家科学院院士，1990年被总统乔治·布什授予国家科学奖；同时因其对科学哲学的杰出贡献，苏佩斯教授于2003年获得拉卡托斯奖的殊荣。苏佩斯教授在科学哲学、测量理论、量子力学的基础、决定理论、心理学和教育技术等领域都做出了重要贡献。