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)

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.

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.

This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...(展开全部)

This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...(展开全部)

小杰克·F. 马特洛克（Jack F. Matlock, Jr.），美国前驻苏联大使，历史学家，语言学家，在美国外交部门供职长达35年，是里根政府制定对苏政策的重要顾问。1971年至1974年主管美国国务院苏联事务，1981年至1983年担任美国驻捷克斯洛伐克大使，1983年至1986年担任国家安全事务特别助理兼欧洲和苏联事务高级主任，1987年至1991年任美国驻苏联大使。1991年退休后，马特洛克踏入学术界，先后在哥伦比亚大学、普林斯顿高等研究院担任教授。已出版的著作有《苏联解体亲历记》《里根和戈尔巴乔夫：冷战是如何结束的》和《超级大国的幻想》。 · 张敏谦，三亚学院教授，中国现代国际关系研究院研究员、博士导师，《现代国际关系》前主编，国际关系学院、中国人民大学、中国政法大学兼职教授，出版专著《美国对外经济战略》《大觉醒——美国宗教与社会关系》，...(展开全部)

小杰克·F. 马特洛克（Jack F. Matlock, Jr.），美国前驻苏联大使，历史学家，语言学家，在美国外交部门供职长达35年，是里根政府制定对苏政策的重要顾问。1971年至1974年主管美国国务院苏联事务，1981年至1983年担任美国驻捷克斯洛伐克大使，1983年至1986年担任国家安全事务特别助理兼欧洲和苏联事务高级主任，1987年至1991年任美国驻苏联大使。1991年退休后，马特洛克踏入学术界，先后在哥伦比亚大学、普林斯顿高等研究院担任教授。已出版的著作有《苏联解体亲历记》《里根和戈尔巴乔夫：冷战是如何结束的》和《超级大国的幻想》。 · 张敏谦，三亚学院教授，中国现代国际关系研究院研究员、博士导师，《现代国际关系》前主编，国际关系学院、中国人民大学、中国政法大学兼职教授，出版专著《美国对外经济战略》《大觉醒——美国宗教与社会关系》，...(展开全部)