Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in...(展开全部)

Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming of state power. Not only do the contributors draw upon both modernist and p...(展开全部)

你所知道的歷史，都有可能是錯的！ 《貨幣崛起》與《文明》作者尼爾．弗格森帶來一個想像世界的全新方式 「尼爾．弗格森是他這時代中最傑出的英國歷史學者」—《泰晤士報》 大部分的歷史是階級制的：它是關於教宗、總統和總理的。如果這只是因為他們創造了歷史檔案呢？如果我們失去了同樣強大但被屏蔽的網絡該怎麼辦？–這些問題不該只留給陰謀論者，即便他們幻想光明會在背後壟斷世界政權？ 世界由兩個不同的力量組織而成：階級和網絡 21世紀被稱為網路時代。但在本書中，尼爾．弗格森認為社群網路並非新玩意。從造成宗教改革的印刷工人與傳教士到帶領美國革命的共濟會成員，他們都是破壞教宗與國王舊秩序的網絡成員。在我們進行中的歷史，已來到第二次網絡時代，電腦扮演著印刷工人的重要角色。一但我們明白這一點，過去和未來，看起來將非常不同。 「強大的、節奏明快的敘述」–《衛報》 尼爾．弗格森帶我...(展开全部)

What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally p...(展开全部)

[美]艾伯特-拉斯洛•巴拉巴西 ★全球复杂网络研究权威，“无尺度网络”创立者。美国物理学会荣誉会员，匈牙利科学院外籍院士，欧洲科学院院士。 ★美国东北大学教授，网络科学研究中心创始人兼主任，同时任职于哈佛大学医学院医学系，并担任丹那-法伯癌症研究所癌症系统生物学中心研究员。 ★提出无尺度网络模型，2006年因此荣获匈牙利计算机学会颁发的冯•诺依曼金质奖章；2008年获得美国国家科学院颁发的Cozzarelli奖章；2011年又荣获拉格朗日奖。 ★复杂网络界被引述最多的科学家。论文被引用总次数接近10万次，H-指数高达96。 ★世界著名科技杂志《科技新时代》（Popular Science）对他赞誉有加：“他可以控制世界”。

Review Lucid and comprehensive, Jackson's book elegantly synthesizes several important strands of network science from sociology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. It will be an immensely useful reference for researchers and students alike. (Duncan Watts, Columbia University ) Product Description Networks of relationships help determine the careers that peo...(展开全部)

Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines – history, literary studies, and bibliography – that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a...(展开全部)

Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a...(展开全部)

By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sp...(展开全部)