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)

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。

雷沙德·卡普希钦斯基（Ryszard Kapuściński，1932—2007），波兰著名新闻记者、作家、摄影师、诗人，波兰新闻和文学界一位里程碑式的传奇人物，被公认为二十世纪深具影响力的作家和伟大的记者之一。在四十余年的驻外记者生涯中，足迹遍及一百余个国家，尤其深入亚非拉人迹罕至的地域，亲临火线，从大事件的现场发回一手报道。曾亲历二十七场革命和政变，四十余次被拘禁关押，四次被判死刑。创作了二十余部非虚构作品和诗集，被译成三十余种文字，获得五十多项国内国际大奖，六次被提名诺贝尔文学奖。加西亚·马尔克斯赞誉他是“真正的大师”；萨尔曼·鲁西迪称赞他的作品是“新闻报道和文学艺术的惊人融合”；玛格丽特·阿特伍德认为他是“我们这个时代最杰出的见证者”；约翰·勒卡雷称他为“现代新闻报道的超凡魔术师”。 . 译者简介： 刘伟，自由译者。译有詹姆斯·索特《这一切》...(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.