埃凡德．亞伯拉罕米安（Ervand Abrahamian） 伊朗裔美國人，畢業於哥倫比亞大學，現任教於紐約城市大學巴魯克學院（Baruch College, City University of New York），專長為伊朗和中東歷史與政治。2010年入選歷史悠久的美國文理科學院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences; AAAS）院士，該機構堪稱學術研究的最高榮譽殿堂。他也被公認是當代伊朗最重要的歷史學家之一。 二十餘年來，亞伯拉罕米安致力於撰寫伊朗史相關書籍，扭轉世人的誤解。《政變》一書獲致國際好評，更被伊朗獨立公共知識分子委員會選為年度歷史書，於國內造成風潮。另著《發明邪惡軸心：關於朝鮮、伊朗和敘利亞的真相》（Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North...(展开全部)

埃凡德．亞伯拉罕米安（Ervand Abrahamian） 伊朗裔美國人，畢業於哥倫比亞大學，現任教於紐約城市大學巴魯克學院（Baruch College, City University of New York），專長為伊朗和中東歷史與政治。2010年入選歷史悠久的美國文理科學院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences; AAAS）院士，該機構堪稱學術研究的最高榮譽殿堂。他也被公認是當代伊朗最重要的歷史學家之一。 二十餘年來，亞伯拉罕米安致力於撰寫伊朗史相關書籍，扭轉世人的誤解。《政變》一書獲致國際好評，更被伊朗獨立公共知識分子委員會選為年度歷史書，於國內造成風潮。另著《發明邪惡軸心：關於朝鮮、伊朗和敘利亞的真相》（Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North...(展开全部)

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. Th...(展开全部)

"Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvoyance. How, then, can we have parlayed this meager sensory input into a full-blown scientific theory of the world? This is itself a scientific question. The pursuit of it, with free use of scientific theory, is what I call natural...(展开全部)

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. Th...(展开全部)

With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.” Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)