詹姆斯·斯塔夫里迪斯，美国海军上将(已退役)，毕业于美国海军学院，在美国海军服役逾35年，曾指挥过多艘驱逐舰和一个航母战斗群。服役期的最后7年获美国海军四星上将军衔，担任北约欧洲盟军司令近4年。退役后，斯塔夫里迪斯在2013年被任命为塔夫茨大学弗莱彻法律与外交学院院长。曾在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》发表过多篇关于全球安全问题的文章。

From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashin...(展开全部)

[英]大卫·阿布拉菲亚(Davibulafia)，剑桥大学荣休教授，冈维尔与凯斯学院研究员，曾任剑桥大学历史系主任。他是欧洲科学院院士和英国学术院院士，并担任英国学术院中世纪研究部门的主席。著有Frederick、TheDiscoveryofMankind、The GreatSea(中译本《伟大的海》由社会科学文献出版社于2018年出版)等，其中TheGreat Sea已被翻译成十几种语言。 陆大鹏，世界史研究者，英德译者。著有《德意志贵族》《巴比伦怪物》。译有《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》《金雀花王朝》等。获誉:《北京青年报》2015年度译者;《经济观察书评》2015年度译者;单向街书店文学奖2016年度文学翻译奖;《新周刊》2018年新锐榜年度知道分子;2023年文景历史写作奖十强。

David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringi...(展开全部)

David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringi...(展开全部)

"An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition", is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct...(展开全部)

Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss...(展开全部)

Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss...(展开全部)

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.