On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, P...(展开全部)

On the world maps common in America, the Indian Ocean all but disappears. The Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region is relegated to the edges, split up along the maps’ outer reaches. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, for it was in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters that the great wars of that e...(展开全部)

Hilarious sequel to The Cow That Laid an Egg Marjorie the cow is terribly excited. She's going to enter her daughter, Daisy, in the baby cow contest. Daisy has been a very special cow ever since the day that she surprised everyone by hatching out of an egg! Marjorie feels sure that Daisy will win, hooves down. But the other mothers are starting to talk...Daisy isn't quite lik...(展开全部)

Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilization and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history of the exploration and exploitation by Chinese and Arab travellers, and by the ...(展开全部)

西蒙·温彻斯特（Simon Winchester），英国著名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。生于1944年，1966年自牛津大学地质学专业毕业后，游历过世界很多地方，曾担任《卫报》20余年的海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》的海外特派员。近年一直为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》、BBC、《观察家》、《史密森学会月刊》等一线媒体撰稿。 他著有多部作品，包括《大西洋的故事》（Atlantic）、《教授与疯子》（the Professor and the Madman）、《李约瑟：揭开中国神秘面纱的人》（The Man Who Loved China）、《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Ch...(展开全部)

One of America's leading policy intellectuals, who coined the term "Soft Power", looks at what has happened to American power from the time of Kennedy to the present day. In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power in the US was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe....(展开全部)

肯尼斯·麦克弗森（Kenneth McPherson）是澳大利亚科廷大学（Curtin University of Technology）历史系教授，保修期从事海洋史的研究与教学，主要著作有`How Best Do We Survive?': A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims，The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea，Four Decades of Courage: Development of United States Air Power and The 7th Bombardment Group等。

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比 美国外交关系委员会保罗·沃尔克国际经济高阶研究员，曾任《金融时报》编辑并两度入围新闻领域的“奥斯卡”普利策奖。其著作包括《格林斯潘传》（The Man Who Knew）、《富可敌国》（More Money Than God）等。

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Is...(展开全部)