This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise. Winner of the Pulitze...(展开全部)

This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise. Winner of the Pulitze...(展开全部)

《改革的时代》作者是理查德施塔特，1955此书获得普利策奖。内容讲述美国这一段时间的历史-从十九世纪九十年代的民粹主义运动, 到二十世纪三十年代的进步时代，最后到新政结束。之所以讲述这一段改革时代的历史, 因为施塔特主要写作目的不是泛泛复述这三大运动的经过, 而是从现代的角度分析改革团体的共同信念, 以阐明历史的扭曲, 特别是在新政和进步之间。这是一本关于美国转型历史的精彩图书，书的内容本身简洁扼要。但是不太容易的阅读，需要有一些美国历史的背景知识。虽然它更像是一本关于美国政治史的书，但也可以很好地了解镀金时代社会是如何变化或演变的，可以很好了解进步时代的本质。

Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in...(展开全部)

hree decades of dizzying change in China’s economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China’s reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in ...(展开全部)

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn’t just...(展开全部)

Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, is the New York Times’s chief data scientist. He lives in New York City. Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Princeton University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives outside Princeton, New Jersey.

In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development of ...(展开全部)

安傑羅．查尼歐提斯Angelos Chaniotis 普林斯頓大學高等研究院歷史研究學院教授，也是牛津大學萬靈學院（All Souls）的前院士。他曾撰寫多部著作與文章，並擔任《希臘銘文補充調查報告》（Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum）的資深編輯，以及古典研究期刊《謨涅摩敘涅》（Mnemosyne）的編輯。 譯者簡介 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語文學系、廣播電視學系畢業，曾任出版社編輯，現為文字工作者、譯者、內容力有限公司特約譯者。譯有《手寫時代》、《穆罕默德：宣揚謙卑、寬容與和平的先知》、《福爾摩沙．美麗之島》（合譯）、《時光出土：考古學的故事》、《原始富足：布希曼族的生存之道，以及他們能教給我們什麼？》等書，及合著《吹過島嶼的歌》。

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. His successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from the late third century BCE to the end of ...(展开全部)