This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes wi...(展开全部)

This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes wi...(展开全部)

亨利·基辛格（Henry Kissinger）哈佛大学博士、教师，美国前国务卿，20世纪美国最著名的外交家、国际问题专家，被称为“美国政坛常青树”。1971年7月，基辛格作为尼克松总统秘密特使访华，为中美建交开启了大门，为中美关系做出了历史性贡献。他与毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平等领导人都有过深入的交往。1973年1月，基辛格在巴黎完成了结束越南战争的谈判，并因此获得诺贝尔和平奖。其主要著作有《论中国》、《大外交》、《白宫岁月》、《复兴年代》等。

亨利·基辛格（Henry Kissinger）哈佛大学博士、教师，美国前国务卿，20世纪美国最著名的外交家、国际问题专家，被称为“美国政坛常青树”。1971年7月，基辛格作为尼克松总统秘密特使访华，为中美建交开启了大门，为中美关系做出了历史性贡献。他与毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平等领导人都有过深入的交往。1973年1月，基辛格在巴黎完成了结束越南战争的谈判，并因此获得诺贝尔和平奖。其主要著作有《论中国》、《大外交》、《白宫岁月》、《复兴年代》等。

This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

Synopsis In this text, the author argues that as people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion, the West will find itself more and more at odds with non-western civilizations that reject its ideals of democracy, human rights, liberty, the rule of law, and the separation of the church and state. Picturing a future of accelerated conflict and increasingly "de-...(展开全部)

J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of readers a tour of the vast landscape of human history. In this new edition, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Odd Arne Westad has completely revised this landmark work to bring the...(展开全部)