托马斯·索威尔（Thomas Swowell） 美国经济学家、社会评论家；斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员，长期任职于康奈尔大学、加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校、艾姆赫斯特学院和其他学术机构以及智囊团；著有《美国种族简史》《经济学的思维方式》《歧视与不平等》等30部作品，常年在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华盛顿邮报》等媒体发表文章，曾获得“博伊尔奖”、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、“布莱德雷基金奖”等荣誉。

Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long period of time.Migrations and Cultures: shows the persistence of cultural traits, in pa...(展开全部)

吉尔特·霍夫斯泰德（Geert Hofstede），于荷兰代尔夫特理工大学获得机械工程学位。于格罗宁根大学获得社会心理学博士学位。在荷兰的多家企业担任过技术和管理职务。后来进入IBM欧洲公司，创建了人事研究部并担任主任。　　他的学术生涯开始于洛桑的国际管理学院（IMD），后来加盟法国枫丹白露的lNSEAD商学院、布鲁塞尔的欧洲高级管理学院、卢森堡的国际应用系统分析研究所、荷兰的马斯特里赫特大学。他在马斯特里赫特大学教授组织人类学和国际管理，直到l993年退休。是跨文化合作研究所（IRIC）的创始人和首任主任。　　他的著作有17种语言的版本。文章发表在世界各地的社会科学和管理学期刊上。他位居社会学科引文索引（SSCl）中被引用次数最多的100位学者之列，是享此殊荣的极少数的非美国人之一。他是美国管理学会（AOM）会士，享有欧洲四所著名大学的荣誉博士学位...(展开全部)

Eileen Chang has just been "rediscovered" outside China. But to date, there has been no book written in any language apart from Chinese that analyses her work. As well as being the first such book, the essays collected in here are written by scholars who are all, like Chang, bilingual and bicultural. The approach taken by the contributors in this essay is also multi-disciplinar...(展开全部)

MIGRATIONS documents the world-altering phenomenon of mass migration. Salgado's images collectively serve as a metaphor for the hundreds of millions of people who, in an elemental struggle for survival, have ruptured their ties with land and tradition in a flight toward other destinies. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a clearer picture of the enormous socia...(展开全部)

MIGRATIONS documents the world-altering phenomenon of mass migration. Salgado's images collectively serve as a metaphor for the hundreds of millions of people who, in an elemental struggle for survival, have ruptured their ties with land and tradition in a flight toward other destinies. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a clearer picture of the enormous socia...(展开全部)

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)

Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between science and the humanities. Essays are arranged chronologically and form a historical survey of science fiction, showing how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of a literature...(展开全部)

Sowell, in Conquests and Cultures, helps explain the role of cultural evolution and warfare in shaping the destinies of the world's civilizations.