作者简介 罗伯特·阿克塞尔罗德：密歇根大学政治学与公共政策教授，美国科学院院士，著名的行为分析及博弈专家，主要由于他在博弈论和复杂性理论上的基础性突破而广为人知。阿克塞尔罗德是把计算机模型运用到社会科学问题领域的权威学者。作者受到过来自美国科学促进会、美国政治科学协会、麦克阿瑟基金会以及美国国家科学院的奖励。除本书外，还著有《合作的进化》等著作。

Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory. He is a leader in applying computer modeling to social science problems. His book The Evolution of Cooperation has been hailed as a seminal contribution and has been translated into eight languages since its initial publication. The Complexity of Cooperation is a sequel to that ...(展开全部)

Within the realist school of international relations, a prevailing view holds that the anarchic structure of the international system invariably forces the great powers to seek security at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to an unrelenting struggle for power and dominance. Rational Theory of International Politics offers a more nuanced alternative to this vi...(展开全部)

If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist reveals the results of recent studies that suggest that self-interest and mutual aid are not at...(展开全部)

According to the reigning competition-driven model of evolution, selfish behaviors that maximize an organism’s reproductive potential offer a fitness advantage over self-sacrificing behaviors—rendering unselfish behavior for the sake of others a mystery that requires extra explanation. Evolution, Games, and God addresses this conundrum by exploring how cooperation, working alon...(展开全部)

Living with people who differ--racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically--is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett discusses why this has happened and what migh...(展开全部)

威廉·C.伯格（William C. Burger）是美国芝加哥自然博物馆植物馆馆长，也是备受赞誉的《花：它们如何改变了世界》《完美的星球，智慧的物种》的作者，几十年来一直致力于生物多样性重组与保护等研究，尤其擅长用通俗的语言讲深刻的原理，帮助非生物学专业的读者更好地理解生物世界的运行规律。

Updated for the first time, the classic book on why cooperation is not only natural but also the best survival strategy The Evolution of Cooperation addresses a simple yet age-old question: If living things evolve through competition, how can cooperation ever emerge? Despite the abundant evidence of cooperation all around us, there existed no purely naturalistic answer to t...(展开全部)

This book presents a key to understanding how ideas, products, opinions, and so on take off and spread throughout society, and provides a better means to estimate how fast or slow that spread occurs. This spread is referred to as the diffusion of innovations. The diffusion of innovations occurs among individuals in a social system, and the pattern of communication among these i...(展开全部)

Anthony A.Long,加州大学伯克利分校古典学教授。 Anthony A. Long是古典学界的重量级人物，《心灵与自我的希腊模式》是他在中国人民大学的演讲稿，共六讲，计10万字。作者关注于古希腊时期心灵、自我与个人同一性的观念，谈及荷马史诗中的灵肉同一性、前柏拉图哲学对不朽性的暗示、柏拉图政治化的灵魂与理性的统治、亚里士多德与斯多亚派中的同一性与友爱等，以简洁的方式呈现了古希腊时期的观念变迁史。