Through short stories of leadership and organizational changes in the areas of business, politics, health care, and education, this book illustrates how this process can increase personal integrity, i

Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the pers...(展开全部)

The financial crisis and its aftermath have highlighted the importance of understanding how central banks operate, that is, how they use their balance sheets and other tools to implement monetary policy decisions. This book offers a unique and detailed view of the structure, history, and impact of monetary policy operations, both in normal times and in times of crisis. Written ...(展开全部)

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by tra...(展开全部)

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by tra...(展开全部)

作者简介： 华百纳（Bernard Wasserstein），历史学教授。1948年出生于伦敦。1969-1974年在牛津大学先后获文学学士、文学硕士和哲学博士学位。曾先后任教于格拉斯哥大学、史密斯学院、布兰迪斯大学、牛津大学，目前为芝加哥大学教授。著有The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln、Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945等书。以本书出版为契机，作者正式以“华百纳”作为自己的中文姓名。 译者简介： 周书垚，1986年生于上海。2009年获上海师范大学文学学士学位，2011年获美国德州农工大学教育学硕士学位。曾在商务印书馆、上海中学国际部等处供职，译著有《拜占庭的成就》，正在翻译《欧洲近代文化史》、《人力车时代的北京》。 校译者简介： 周育民，19...(展开全部)

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argu...(展开全部)

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text. "Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argu...(展开全部)

"With his customary range and depth, Stephen Teo gives us a remarkable study of the action films of Johnnie To. To is one of the finest filmmakers working in the world today, and Teo situates his distinctive achievement within the wider context of Hong Kong politics, culture, and film production. In-depth analyses of To's films gain resonance from Teo's survey of the wider hist...(展开全部)