1. "Lower than the Angels" (evolution of man from ape to 400,000 years ago) 2. "The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements) 3. "The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration) 4. "The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy) 5. "Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers) 6. "The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe) 7. "The Majestic Cloc...(展开全部)

Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind. Dr. Jacob Bronowski's groundbreaking book The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through its understanding of science. First published in 1973, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science", illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his ...(展开全部)

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings. Ruth Leys’s brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and dis...(展开全部)

A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures as a young man in Vienna to his First World War experience and his rise as a far-ri...(展开全部)

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in T...(展开全部)

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in T...(展开全部)

朱锋，北京大学国际战略研究中心副主任、北京大学国际关系学院教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、美国战略与国际研究中心、英国杜兰大学等多家国际学术机构担任访问学者。其学术专著有《人权与国际关系》（200）、《弹道导弹防御计划与国际安全》（2001）、《东亚安全：理论与政策的分析》（2007）。 罗伯特·阿特(Robert J．Art)，美国布兰代斯大学赦脱国际关系学教授，哈佛大学博士，著名的国际关系学家、国际安全研究专家，也是闻名于国际战略学界的杰出学者。曾在哈佛大学的奥林战略所供职，曾任美国国防部远程计划参谋秘书、麻省理工学院安全研究项目的高级研究员。研究方向是国家安全事务与美国外交政策。

In the midst of this disastrous economic climate, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, considered the dominant fi gure on Wall Street. Dimon's eleventh-hour acquisition, in 2008, of fl ailing archrival Bear Stearns stunned the world. Even more incredible: JPMorgan's continued success in the face of an...(展开全部)

福尔克尔·乌尔里希(Volker Ullrich) 1943年出生，著名传记作家、历史学家、专栏作家、电视媒体人。 主修历史、文学与哲学，目前居于汉堡。《时代》杂志旗下著名作家，《时代杂志历史篇》合作出版人，1990年至2009年间曾担任《汉堡周刊》的《政治书》主编，并出版过多部关于19世纪和20世纪历史的专著，众多成就使他于2008年荣获德国耶拿大学荣誉博士头衔。曾经因在新闻出版业做出的杰出贡献获得德国弗雷德里希·克尔大奖。《希特勒传：跃升年代》是作者数十年心血之作，被学术界评价为本世纪、真实、值得注目的希特勒传记。

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony reveals the origins of our current era in the dissolution of the institutions that governed the architecture of energy and finance during the Bretton Woods era. He shows how, in the second half of the 1960s, the Soviet Union sought to dismantle the compartmentalized nature of Bretton Woods in order to escape its material ostracism and pave a path to global ...(展开全部)