Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and, states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and ...(展开全部)

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

查尔斯·泰勒：加拿大哲学家，是晚近西方特别是英美道德哲学中首屈一指的思想家、社群主义的主将。曾任牛津大学齐切里哲学与伦理学讲座教授，现任加拿大麦基尔大学哲学与政治科学教授。20世纪70年代以来，泰勒以其对黑格尔哲学的再解读、对原子主义式的消极自由的批评、对社群价值的强调、对西方文化中自我认同观念发展的梳理、对承认的政治的研究以及对文化多元论的论证，强烈地影响着西方思想界。

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

简介：仁合故事，永不落幕。———这里是一篇《外科风云》的续写同人手术刀下的信仰，白大褂里的烟火，那些原著没说完的遗憾与圆满，都在这里缓慢生长。文笔稚嫩、绝不OOC、初三不定时更新不弃坑不水文

Spencer Bloch's 1979 Duke lectures, a milestone in modern mathematics, have been out of print almost since their first publication in 1980, yet they have remained influential and are still the best place to learn the guiding philosophy of algebraic cycles and motives. This edition, now professionally typeset, has a new preface by the author giving his perspective on development...(展开全部)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring struggle between pragmatism and idealism in the American soul" (Time). Faced with a new century, a new millennium, and social and ...(展开全部)

The relationship between political and economic cycles is one of the most widely studied topics in political economics. This book examines how electoral laws, the timing of elections, the ideological orientation of governments, and the nature of competition between political parties influence unemployment, economic growth, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy. The book pre...(展开全部)

The relationship between political and economic cycles is one of the most widely studied topics in political economics. This book examines how electoral laws, the timing of elections, the ideological orientation of governments, and the nature of competition between political parties influence unemployment, economic growth, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy. The book pre...(展开全部)

Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religi...(展开全部)