A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind “Captivating. . . . A welcome reconsideration of the role drugs play in life, medicine, and science.”—Publishers Weekly Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting...(展开全部)

Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent me...(展开全部)

An engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy,...(展开全部)

作者：蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell)，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院讲师，教授中国近代史、中国文学；已出版数种与中国近代历史相关的著作，且以英文翻译了鲁迅、张爱玲、朱文、韩少功、阎连科等中国作家的部分作品；现在正致力于研究毛泽东思想的全球史，并重译《西游记》（节译本）。 译者：刘悦斌，中国近代史研究专家、教授；在各类专业期刊发表论文60余篇，出版专著数种，并翻译出版《朋友•客人•同事——晚清的幕府制度》（合译）、《寻求中国民主》（合译）等著作。

An engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy,...(展开全部)

作者：蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell)，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院讲师，教授中国近代史、中国文学；已出版数种与中国近代历史相关的著作，且以英文翻译了鲁迅、张爱玲、朱文、韩少功、阎连科等中国作家的部分作品；现在正致力于研究毛泽东思想的全球史，并重译《西游记》（节译本）。 译者：刘悦斌，中国近代史研究专家、教授；在各类专业期刊发表论文60余篇，出版专著数种，并翻译出版《朋友•客人•同事——晚清的幕府制度》（合译）、《寻求中国民主》（合译）等著作。

In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s hero...(展开全部)

In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s hero...(展开全部)

作者 杰罗姆·弗兰克 Jerome Frank，1889~1957 美国现实主义法学运动“事实怀疑论”的旗帜性人物。早年求学于芝加哥大学，获文学学士和法学硕士学位。1912年毕业后先后在律师事务所以及政府部门工作，20世纪30年代年曾任教于美国现实主义法学中心之一的耶鲁大学法学院。支持“新政”并于1939~1941年担任美国联邦证券交易委员会主席，1941年被罗斯福总统任命为美国第二巡回区上诉法院法官，并在此职位上一直工作到去世。其主要著作有：《法律与现代精神》（1930），《法院实际上在做什么》（1932），《法官霍姆斯先生和非欧几里得法律思想》（1932），《如果人人都是天使》（1942），《卡多佐与上院迷思》（1948），《初审法院：美国司法的神话和现实》（1949）等。 译者 刘楠 1966年生，英国伦敦大学亚非学院法学硕士、西南政法大学法...(展开全部)

"Law and the Modern Mind" first appeared in 1930 when, in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark, it "fell like a bomb on the legal world." In the generations since, its influence has grown - today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence. The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank'...(展开全部)