A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology. As lives offline and online merge even more, it’s easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas, Thomas Rid delivers a thought-provoking portrait of our tech...(展开全部)

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。

威廉•麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917—2016），知名历史学家、全球史研究奠基人、世界历史学科的“现代开创者”。芝加哥大学荣誉退休教授，曾担任美国历史学会主席、美国世界史学会主席。在全球史方面的研究卓然有成，德高望重，与斯宾格勒、汤因比齐名，被誉为“20世纪对历史进行世界性解释的巨人”，开辟了一个西方世界史学的新时代。 1963年，威廉•麦克尼尔以一部《西方的兴起：人类共同体史》一举成名，并因此获得美国国家图书奖。在长达六十余年的学术生涯中，麦克尼尔笔耕不辍，著作等身，迄今已出版30多部作品。1996年，威廉•麦克尼尔因“在欧洲文化、社会和社会科学领域里做出的杰出贡献”荣获伊拉斯谟奖。2009年，美国总统奥巴马为威廉•麦克尼尔颁授国家人文勋章，以表彰其在人文科学研究方面所做出的卓越贡献。 威廉•麦克尼尔毕生追求博大宽宏的视野...(展开全部)

This is a landmark book on the impact of property rights on European economic development. Published over a quarter of a century ago, its stated goal is "... to suggest new paths for the study of European economic history rather than ... either [a detailed and exhaustive study or a precise empirical test that are the] ... standard formats" (p. vii). North and Thomas attempt to ...(展开全部)

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler...(展开全部)

"The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that fr...(展开全部)

"The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that fr...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

乔纳森·戴利（JonathanDaly），哈佛大学历史学博士，伊利诺伊大学历史学教授，美国斯拉夫研究会成员，研究聚焦于现代文明的诞生和俄罗斯近现代史。在数十年的教学生涯中，戴利广受师生欢迎，并于2008年获雪莉·比尔奖。著有《欧洲如何塑造现代世界》《俄国革命及其影响》等。