坦特教授是可持续发展研究的先行者，可持续国际的创会会员,曾任新墨西哥大学人类学教授。远在“可持续发展”一词未为人知时，坦特教授已经开展了这方面的研究。早在二十年前，即出版了其成名著《复杂社会的崩溃》，该书运用网络理论、能量经济和复杂性理论对玛雅文明和罗马帝国的崩溃进行了研究。

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tain...(展开全部)

Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.

Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.

威廉•奥多姆，美军中将，曾任美国国家安全局局长，于1988年退休，2008年因心脏病在美国去世。布热津斯基认为作者是美国的首席苏联军事问题专家。

In this text, a United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author asserts that Gorbachev saw that shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perest...(展开全部)

作者 克里夫•甘博（Clive Gamble），世界著名的史前史学者与人类学家，南安普顿大学（University of Southampton）考古学系荣休教授。英国国家学术院院士、史前学会主席、古物学会会员与前任副主席、皇家人类学研究所研究员与前任主席， 2010~2018年间任大英博物馆的受托人。除本书外，还著有《欧洲旧石器时代聚落》（The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe）（1986）、《时间旅行者：全球殖民史前史》（Timewalkers: the Prehistory of Global Colonization）（1993）、《起源与革命：史前最早期的人类身份》（Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory）（2007）和...(展开全部)