埃里克·罗斯顿，哥伦比亚大学欧洲史学士、俄罗斯史硕士，精通俄语。曾在《时代》周刊做过六年的科技、科学政策和能源议题的报道撰稿人，曾参与《时代》“911”特刊的策划撰稿，并以这期增刊赢得了2002年美国国家杂志奖。后任美国彭博新闻社编辑，负责报道能源、自然资源和可持续发展方面的新闻。现为美国国家发展委员会的高级分析师。本书是他第一次对影响全球气候的根本因素——碳的历史做全面阐述，他深入浅出的写作方式，使人有如倾听一部宇宙、地球、碳和人类文明的史诗。

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from...(展开全部)

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from...(展开全部)

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Timothy Mitchell rethinks the history of energy, bringing into his grasp as he does so environmental politics, the struggle for democracy, and the place of the Middle East in the modern world. With the rise of coal power, the producers ...(展开全部)

In this magisterial study, Timothy Mitchell rethinks the history of energy, bringing into his grasp environmental politics, the struggle for democracy, and the place of the Middle East in the modern world. With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracie...(展开全部)

作者 西奥多·P. 斯诺（Theodore P. Snow）：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校天体物理学和空间天文学中心名誉教授，国际天文学联合会（IAU）活跃成员，宇宙起源光谱仪科学团队成员；他是获奖教材《动态宇宙》的作者。 唐·布朗利（Don Brownlee）：华盛顿大学天文学名誉教授、天体生物学项目成员，美国宇航局“星尘”任务的首席研究员；科普作家，此前他与华盛顿大学古生物学家彼得·沃德合著了《稀有地球》。 译者 王文浩，清华大学工程物理系高级工程师，专业方向是聚变与等离子体物理，近年主要从事科普著作翻译，译有贝尔纳的《科学的社会功能》、维纳的《控制论》等。

The story of carbon--the building block of life that, ironically, is humanity's great threat. Carbon has always been the ubiquitous architect of life: Indeed, all living things need it to stay alive, and carbon cycles through organisms, ground, water, and atmosphere in a kind of global respiration system that helps keep Earth in balance. Yet, since the start of the industrial e...(展开全部)

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloa...(展开全部)

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloa...(展开全部)

埃里克•沃格林（1901—1985），20世纪最具原创性和影响力的哲学家之一。生于德国科隆，求学于维也纳大学，并成为该校法学院的政治科学教授。为躲避希特勒的迫害，1938年和妻子移民美国，并于1944年成为美国公民。沃格林的大部分学术生涯在路易斯安那州立大学、慕尼黑大学以及斯坦福大学胡佛研究所度过。主要著作包括八卷本《政治观念史稿》和五卷本《秩序与历史》。