Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s la...(展开全部)

《大萧条时代》企图再现1929年开始的那场金融瘟疫的来龙去脉、发病周期和病程。作者从社会的各个角度进行了观察和描述：从身处繁华都市的失业工人，到逃离“尘土盆地”的受灾农民，从孤苦无依的老人，到饱受剥削的童工，从贫困的中西部佃农，到东海岸的知识精英……全面展现了经济危机对美国社会产生的影响，以及经济危机中人们自身的疗救过程。其中很多观点至今仍不失其价值。

一個世界經濟急速衰退的年代 從富足到貧乏竟只在轉瞬之間 西元1929~1941年，這是一段讓人無法忘懷的歷史；這是一個讓人想起來就會感到顫慄的記憶；這是一個隨時會變成惡夢，並讓人從睡夢中驚醒的時代。 1929年10月28日，紐約證券交易所迎來了「黑色星期一」，當天，股指暴跌了13%。接著第二天，歷史上最黑暗的一幕迅即拉開，道瓊指數一瀉千里，暴跌了22%。美國乃至全球歷史上最恐怖的一次大危機就此拉開了序幕，樂觀的人們迎來了長達十年的經濟大蕭條時代。 在這個景氣低迷的時期裡，有5000萬人失業，不計其數的人流離失所，僅美國在3年內，就有超過10萬家企業破產。全球工業生產下降32.7%，並直接倒退至20~30年前的水平。目睹現今全世界金融不安、經濟混亂的情勢，本書將可為讀者提供一個可以冷靜洞察現今動盪經濟局勢的依據和觀點。

Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" ...(展开全部)

Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" ...(展开全部)

First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pears Press in 1993, this expanded edition of "Waiting for Foucault" represents some of the brightest anthropological satire - mixed in with some of the most serious intellectual issues in the human sciences. Whether he...(展开全部)

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is ...(展开全部)

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is ...(展开全部)

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to...(展开全部)

The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants 'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author...(展开全部)