“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America’s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, “If you think ...(展开全部)

The history of America's political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines—from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli pea...(展开全部)

迈克尔•B.奥伦博士，历史学家，出生于美国，在普林斯顿大学和哥伦比亚大学接受教育，曾担任哈佛大学、耶鲁大学和乔治敦大学的客座教授，也是耶路撒冷Shalem中心的杰出研究员。 在以色列，奥伦博士曾是以色列国防军军官，作为伞兵参加过黎巴嫩战争，在海湾战争期间担任与美国第六舰队的联络员，在第二次黎巴嫩战争和2009年1月的加沙行动中担任以色列国防军发言人，以色列驻联合国代表团的顾问。2009年至2013年出任以色列驻美大使。

迈克尔•B.奥伦博士，历史学家，出生于美国，在普林斯顿大学和哥伦比亚大学接受教育，曾担任哈佛大学、耶鲁大学和乔治敦大学的客座教授，也是耶路撒冷Shalem中心的杰出研究员。 在以色列，奥伦博士曾是以色列国防军军官，作为伞兵参加过黎巴嫩战争，在海湾战争期间担任与美国第六舰队的联络员，在第二次黎巴嫩战争和2009年1月的加沙行动中担任以色列国防军发言人，以色列驻联合国代表团的顾问。2009年至2013年出任以色列驻美大使。

Eastward to Tartary , Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-r...(展开全部)

An important new political and economic history of the unravelling of the British Empire and its connection to the decline of sterling as a leading international currency. Analyzing events such as the 1951 Iranian oil nationalization crisis and the 1956 Suez crisis, Steven Galpern provides a new perspective on British imperialism in the Middle East by reframing British policy i...(展开全部)

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as suscep...(展开全部)

罗杰·×彭罗斯，世界顶尖理论物理学家之一，因发现黑洞形成是广义相对论的强健结果而荣获2020年诺贝尔物理学奖。他与霍金合作了畅销书《时空的本性》。彭罗斯的其他著作还有《宇宙的轮回》《通向实在之路》《皇帝新脑》等。他现在是牛津大学荣誉Rouse Ball数学教授，居英国牛津。