Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·谢尔曼是纽约城市大学约翰·杰伊刑事司法学院(John Jay College of Criminal Justice，the City University of New York)的历史学教授。他在加州大学伯克利分校获得了文学学士学位(1962年)和法学博士学位(1965年)，并在密歇根大学获得了哲学博士(1970年)。他是巴黎大学的访问学者(1978—1979年，1985年)。他曾获得福特基金会学术奖(Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship，1968—1969年，1969—1970年)，获得经济史研究中心学术奖(Council for Research on Economic History，1971—1972年)，获得国家人文科学基金会奖(National Endowment for the Humanitie...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

尼古拉斯•迈耶（Nicholas Meyer，1945－） 美国著名作家、编剧、导演。其导演、编剧作品有《星际迷航》系列（Star Trek II 、IV &VI）、《两世奇人》、《挽歌》、《埃及王子》等。 迈耶写过三部福尔摩斯续作皆获得巨大成功，其中《百分之七溶液》（1974）卖出200万册，成为国际畅销书，荣获英国推理作家协会金匕首奖（1975），并入选美国推理作家协会（MWA）的百佳经典书单（第65位），在历史推理榜上排名第三（第一、第二分别是《时间的女儿》和《玫瑰的名字》）。他亲自操刀改编的电影《百分之七溶液》剧本曾获奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖提名（1976）。 《西区恐怖》是迈耶福尔摩斯续作系列的第二本，曾连续十一周位列《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。