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.

Profound family trauma, sometimes stretching back three or more generations, can silently damage otherwise healthy individuals. "The Healing Power of the Past presents "Family Constellation" therapy -- a radical, increasingly popular approach to resolving these long-standing family problems. The book explains how readers can use this 20-year-old psychological therapy to uncover...(展开全部)

Life coach, inspirational speaker, and leadership trainer John Schuster offers a systematic guide to leveraging the biggest, most accessible, and most under-utilized resource for self-improvement: your past.

Over the last four centuries, historians have increasingly turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this wide-ranging and engrossing book, a distinguished art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material, and he examines the specific objects that became available to them through excavation, the crea...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 [奥]瓦尔特·沙伊德尔（Walter Scheidel），生于奥地利，目前在斯坦福大学教授古代历史，主要研究领域是古代历史和经济史、前现代历史人口学，以及世界史比较和跨学科研究方法。 【译者简介】 祁长保，毕业于国际关系学院，曾从事医药贸易工作。译有《黑斯巴达克斯：海地国父杜桑·卢维杜尔传》《苍白的骑士：西班牙流感如何改变了世界》。

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)

"The need for realism in reform of its monetary system is what makes Bernstein's story of the Power of Gold so timely. It is a compelling reminder that maintaining a fixed price for gold and fixed exchange rates were difficult even in a simpler financial environment...Peter Bernstein was reluctant to project the story of gold into the future. But to me his message was clear. Ye...(展开全部)

A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country’s education system, media, and cinema. In particular, Pappe examin...(展开全部)

New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop ...(展开全部)