When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientifi...(展开全部)

When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientifi...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

Synopsis In this text, the author argues that as people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion, the West will find itself more and more at odds with non-western civilizations that reject its ideals of democracy, human rights, liberty, the rule of law, and the separation of the church and state. Picturing a future of accelerated conflict and increasingly "de-...(展开全部)

耶尔多·杨·德伦特（Jelto Jan Drenth 1946-）荷兰著名性学家。接受各种性学领域的培训，1994年注册为荷兰性学协会的性学医生。现为荷兰《性学余志》大学副刊编辑委员会委员；荷兰《性学杂志》编辑委员会委员兼顾问。曾任荷兰性学协会主席，第十届世界性学大会秘书等。《作为问题的性》、系列录像节目《你的情欲和你的生活》的主要作者：参与编写《医生专用性学》和《性学教科书》；2002年出版的专著《世界的渊源——女人性器官的真相与神话》，迄今已被译为多种语言。

耶尔多·杨·德伦特（Jelto Jan Drenth 1946-）荷兰著名性学家。接受各种性学领域的培训，1994年注册为荷兰性学协会的性学医生。现为荷兰《性学余志》大学副刊编辑委员会委员；荷兰《性学杂志》编辑委员会委员兼顾问。曾任荷兰性学协会主席，第十届世界性学大会秘书等。《作为问题的性》、系列录像节目《你的情欲和你的生活》的主要作者：参与编写《医生专用性学》和《性学教科书》；2002年出版的专著《世界的渊源——女人性器官的真相与神话》，迄今已被译为多种语言。

In this gripping account of the quest for the energy that our world needs, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize . A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change. It is a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has b...(展开全部)