A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. The contributors to this collection focus on what happens to knowledge and know-how at national borders. Rather than treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing out from center to periphery, they stress the human intervention that shapes how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and r...(展开全部)

Vagueness is a subject of long-standing interest in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic. Numerous accounts of vagueness have been proposed in the literature but there has been no general consensus on which, if any, should be be accepted. Kit Fine here presents a new theory of vagueness based on the radical hypothesis that vagueness is a "global" rat...(展开全部)

布兰科‧米兰诺维奇（Branko Milanovic） 卢森堡收入研究中心资深研究员，纽约城市大学研究生院首席客座教授。曾任世界银行研究部首席经济学家，并建立世界银行“All the Ginis”数据库。

布兰科‧米兰诺维奇（Branko Milanovic） 卢森堡收入研究中心资深研究员，纽约城市大学研究生院首席客座教授。曾任世界银行研究部首席经济学家，并建立世界银行“All the Ginis”数据库。

布兰科‧米兰诺维奇（Branko Milanovic） 卢森堡收入研究中心资深研究员，纽约城市大学研究生院首席客座教授。曾任世界银行研究部首席经济学家，并建立世界银行“All the Ginis”数据库。

One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has...(展开全部)

Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age, however, to challenge ideas about how and why we value literature and the role numbers might play in this process. The Values in Numbers tells the longer history of thi...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths' bones to keep track of the moon's phases. What routes did human knowledge take to ...(展开全部)

The twentieth century has been a century of nationalism in China, beginning with the nationalist revolution of 1911. Drawing on the explosion of writings about nationalism in the Chinese speaking world, this new book highlights the main themes of the Chinese nationalist tradition and shows how they are central to the discourse of Chinese politics and foreign policy today. The s...(展开全部)