The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communi...(展开全部)

For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ve...(展开全部)

For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. "Power over Peoples" examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ...(展开全部)

L.G.Alexander，世界著名的英语教学权威，曾任欧洲现代语言教学委员会理事。其著作为交际教学法奠定基础，其中一些如NCE和Follow Me已成经典教材。 何其莘博士，现任北京外国语大学副校长、英美文学教授、博士生导师。著有《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》、《英国戏剧选读》和Listen to This等。

In Our Only Star and Compass: Locke and the Struggle for Political Rationality, Peter C. Myers reexamines the role of Locke in liberal political philosophy. Myers considers Locke's philosophy in relation both to contemporary liberalism and to the great works of classical and modern political philosophy. With an emphasis on the human capacity for rational self-government, Myers ...(展开全部)

In Our Only Star and Compass: Locke and the Struggle for Political Rationality, Peter C. Myers reexamines the role of Locke in liberal political philosophy. Myers considers Locke's philosophy in relation both to contemporary liberalism and to the great works of classical and modern political philosophy. With an emphasis on the human capacity for rational self-government, Myers ...(展开全部)

作者彼得•C.迈尔斯（Peter C. Myers），威斯康星-欧克莱尔大学（University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire）政治科学教授，获芝加哥洛约拉大学（Loyola University Chicago）博士学位，主要研究领域为美国政治哲学、古典自由主义政治思想等。 译者刘敏，云南大学法学院讲师，北京大学法学博士，研究兴趣为欧洲现代早期自然法，译有《廊下派的自然观》（合译），发表学术论文数篇。 译者王涛，华东政法大学科学研究院副研究员，中国人民大学法学博士，主要从事西方法律思想史研究，译有《论财产权：约翰•洛克和他的对手》、《边沁的现代国家理论》等。

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

In a posthuman virtual world sealed off from the ruins of Earth, the idyll is shattered by an arachnid invasion. Designed in imitation of a harbor town in southern Europe, the Realm of Summer is just one of the zones within the virtual resort known as the Costa del Número. It has been more than a thousand years since human guests stopped coming to the Realm, leaving the AIs alo...(展开全部)