This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century....(展开全部)

Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumpti...(展开全部)

What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. But what if that weren't the case at all? In A WORLD WITHOUT ISLAM, Graham E. Fuller guides us along an illuminating journey through history, geopolitics, and religion to investigate whether or not Islam is indeed the cause of some of today's most emotional ...(展开全部)

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — dra...(展开全部)

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw mat...(展开全部)

迪内希·德·索萨（Dinesh D'Souza） 美国国际问题500 位权威领袖之一 美国最年轻的公共政策制定者 迪内希·德·索萨是一位有着25年研究经验的学者和公共知识分子，曾在里根时代任白宫政策分析师。索萨曾先后于美国企业研究院和斯坦福大学的胡佛研究院出任研究员，并于2010～2012年担任纽约国王学院的校长。 索萨通过多本著作成为公共政策领域最具影响力的亚裔美国人。他被《纽约时报》评为美国最具影响力的保守派思想家之一。

迪内希·德·索萨（Dinesh D'Souza） 美国国际问题500 位权威领袖之一 美国最年轻的公共政策制定者 迪内希·德·索萨是一位有着25年研究经验的学者和公共知识分子，曾在里根时代任白宫政策分析师。索萨曾先后于美国企业研究院和斯坦福大学的胡佛研究院出任研究员，并于2010～2012年担任纽约国王学院的校长。 索萨通过多本著作成为公共政策领域最具影响力的亚裔美国人。他被《纽约时报》评为美国最具影响力的保守派思想家之一。

The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop De...(展开全部)