霍尔格·霍克，生于德国，在牛津大学获得现代历史博士学位。英国利物浦大学18世纪历史跨学科研究中心创办人，英国皇家历史学会会员，美国国会图书馆研究员，现任美国匹茨堡大学教授。擅长18世纪史、英国史研究。 杨靖，文学博士，南京师范大学外国语学院教授，美国文明研究所所长，江苏省翻译协会理事，中美比较文化研究会常务理事。

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian H...(展开全部)

Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exceptio...(展开全部)

In a natural follow-up to his international bestseller "The Crash of 2008: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets", George Soros reflects on what went wrong with the global economy, and how to get it back on track. The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this co...(展开全部)

羅伯‧沃斯（Robert Forsyth Worth） 普林斯頓大學英文博士，於2000開始於《紐約時報》工作，2003至2006年被派駐巴格達，2007年至2011年為貝魯特中心主任。2014至2015年擔任華盛伍德羅威爾遜國際學術中心中東部門的公共政策研究員，並撰寫本書。

羅伯‧沃斯（Robert Forsyth Worth） 普林斯頓大學英文博士，於2000開始於《紐約時報》工作，2003至2006年被派駐巴格達，2007年至2011年為貝魯特中心主任。2014至2015年擔任華盛伍德羅威爾遜國際學術中心中東部門的公共政策研究員，並撰寫本書。

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created - the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show - and it t...(展开全部)