History is forged through the travel of ideas across continents--as well as by bombs. "The Age of Globalization" is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century politics and culture, and in particular between militant anarchists in Europe and the Americas, and anti-imperialist uprisings in Cuba, China and Japan. Told through the complex intellectu...(展开全部)

约瑟夫 E. 斯蒂格利茨 约瑟夫·E. 斯蒂格利茨，全球最尖端的经济学家之一，哥伦比亚大学教授，同时担任哥伦比亚大学全球思想委员会的联合主席。 2001年，因其对信息经济学的开创性工作而荣获诺贝尔经济学奖。在此之前，他还获得了约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖。 斯蒂格利茨教授先后执教于耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院和牛津大学，是著名的经济学教育家之一。 他还曾担任克林顿政府经济顾问委员会主席、世界银行副行长兼首席经济学家等一系列重要职务。 斯蒂格利茨教授提出了经济全球化观点，是公共部门经济学领域著名的专家。他的教材是世界上畅销的教材之一，他的著作常能引起学术界和大众的共鸣。 近期代表作：《重构美国经济》《不平等的代价》《自由市场的坠落》《全球化及其不满》《欧元危机》《巨大的鸿沟》。

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's ""Century of Humiliation"" whe...(展开全部)

Get a new perspective from the ‘other half’ of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and the private sector to predict either the post-2008 Great Recession or the degree of its severity has raised serious credibility issues for the profession. The repeated failures of central banks and other policymakers in all advanced countries ...(展开全部)

This remarkable book has endured as a true masterpiece of mathematical exposition. There are few mathematics books that are still so widely read and continue to have so much to offer--after more than half a century! The book is overflowing with mathematical ideas, which are always explained clearly and elegantly, and above all, with penetrating insight. It is a joy to read, bot...(展开全部)

The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy which foretold a new Paradise on earth. This unique book tells the story of Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages and points to their persistence today.

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driv...(展开全部)

约翰•达尔文（John Darwin） 英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。

安德斯·温罗特（Anders Winroth） 1965年生于瑞典卢德维卡，现任耶鲁大学中世纪史教授。从斯德哥尔摩大学毕业之后，他于哥伦比亚大学攻读硕士及博士学位，师从美国哲学家、社会学家罗贝特·萨默维尔（Robert Somerville）教授。此后赴纽卡斯尔大学从事博士后研究，并在那里成为“詹姆斯·克诺特爵士”研究员，与著名中世纪史学者罗伯特·伊恩·摩尔（R.I.Moore）共事。 温罗特教授专攻中世纪欧洲史，尤其是宗教、文化和法律史，以及维京史，此外，他在瑞典谱系学研究中也颇有建树。 2003年，温罗特因其在中世纪教会法相关研究中展现出的非凡创造力荣获“麦克阿瑟奖”。