An analysis of the foundations of the authority of the state and the problems of political authority and moral autonomy in a democracy.

A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History? , a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. ...(展开全部)

A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History? , a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. ...(展开全部)

本书作者法里德·扎卡里亚是印度裔美国人，拥有耶鲁大学、哈佛大学教育背景，被认为是“这个时代最有影响力的外事政策顾问”，是美国舆论界非常重要的人物。他目前是《时代》周刊特约编辑，《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约时报》专栏作家，著有畅销书《后美国世界》（The Post-American World）和《自由的未来》（The Future of Freedom）。

戴维·马登（David Madden），伦敦政治经济学院社会学系与城市项目助理教授。在城市研究类期刊上发表过多篇论文，担任《城市》期刊（City）编辑，并有评论常见于《伦敦政治经济学院书评》（LSE Review of Books）、《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Post）和《卫报》（Guardian）等媒体。 彼得·马库塞（Peter Marcuse），哥伦比亚大学建筑规划及保护研究生院城市规划名誉教授。他在美国、英国和其他欧洲国家用英语和德语写作了大量的作品，发表于《国家》（Nation）、《纽约日报》（New York Newsday）、《每月评论》（Monthly Review）、《庇护之力》（Shelterforce）等报刊。

Peter Marcuse has long been recognised as one of the foremost critical urban scholars of our era. He has been writing about and participating in urban politics since the 1950s and remains on the cutting edge of urban activism today. In this book, co-written with David Madden, he argues that the housing question is not an architectural or moral question but a political and econo...(展开全部)

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced di...(展开全部)

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma," Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balance...(展开全部)

The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma , launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but l...(展开全部)

Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China. Dirlik draws on the most re...(展开全部)