Isaac Asmiov's classic novel about the decline and fall of Solaria. Gladia Delmarre's homeworld, the Spacer planet Solaria, has been abandoned - by its human population. Countless robots remain there. And when traders from Settler worlds attempt to salvage them, the robots of Solaria turn to killing...in defiance of the Three Laws of Robotics. Pax Robotica Long ago, Gladia's...(展开全部)

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.

Exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli's political vision was formed, Mikael Hornqvist stresses the classical and rhetorical character of Machiavelli's thought. He analyzes his preoccupation with glory and liberality in relation to the revival of Roman ideas of triumphalism. The result is a revealing account of the formation of Machiave...(展开全部)

It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recen...(展开全部)

埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆（Eric Hobsbawm，1917—2012），享誉全球的思想大师、备受推崇的马克思主义史学大家，英国科学院院士及美国艺术和科学院外籍院士，先后被多个国家的大学授予名誉学位。 作为俄国十月革命的同龄人，1917年出生于埃及名城亚历山大港的一个中产家庭。父亲是移居英国的俄国犹太后裔，母亲来自哈布斯堡王朝统治下的奥地利。1919年，举家迁往维也纳，十年后父母相继去世，孤儿霍布斯鲍姆于1931年投奔叔父，徙居柏林，在“一战”后受创最深的德奥两国度过童年。希特勒上台后，1933年转赴英国，幸运地躲过之后的纳粹大屠杀，完成中学教育，并进入剑桥大学学习历史。“二战”爆发后，投笔从戎，至1946年退伍，回到剑桥完成博士学位，博士论文题目是英国费边社的历史。1947年成为伦敦大学伯克贝克学院讲师，1959年升任高级讲师，1978年成为该校经济和...(展开全部)

The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive.

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the hist...(展开全部)

It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recen...(展开全部)

埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆（Eric Hobsbawm，1917—2012），享誉全球的思想大师、备受推崇的马克思主义史学大家，英国科学院院士及美国艺术和科学院外籍院士，先后被多个国家的大学授予名誉学位。 作为俄国十月革命的同龄人，1917年出生于埃及名城亚历山大港的一个中产家庭。父亲是移居英国的俄国犹太后裔，母亲来自哈布斯堡王朝统治下的奥地利。1919年，举家迁往维也纳，十年后父母相继去世，孤儿霍布斯鲍姆于1931年投奔叔父，徙居柏林，在“一战”后受创最深的德奥两国度过童年。希特勒上台后，1933年转赴英国，幸运地躲过之后的纳粹大屠杀，完成中学教育，并进入剑桥大学学习历史。“二战”爆发后，投笔从戎，至1946年退伍，回到剑桥完成博士学位，博士论文题目是英国费边社的历史。1947年成为伦敦大学伯克贝克学院讲师，1959年升任高级讲师，1978年成为该校经济和...(展开全部)