A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds. In country after country, conspiracy theories and religious dogmas that once seemed to have been overtaken by enlightened thought are helping to loft authoritarian leaders into power. The effects are being felt by women, ethnic minorities, teachers, scientist...(展开全部)

To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate better in this world filled with populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes, and pseudo-philosophy, authors Christer Sturmark and Douglas Hofstadter provide a set of simple tools for clear thinking, as w...(展开全部)

Close reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Ma...(展开全部)

Close reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Ma...(展开全部)

The early part of the twenty-first century has witnessed a profound turn in history writing and museum culture towards global and world history. Historians and curators are rapidly changing what they do: no longer satisfied with traditional national histories and area studies, they are pursuing histories of subjects affected by environmental change, migration, slavery, trade an...(展开全部)

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First C...(展开全部)

A guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times. Covering topi...(展开全部)

杰弗里·蒂尔（Geoffrey Till），海上战略研究的权威，现任英国三军联合指挥和参谋学院伦敦国王学院科贝特海洋政策研究中心主任。他的作品有《空权和皇家海军》（Air Power and the Royal Navy）、《核时代的海上战略》（Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age），以及最新的《英国海军思想史》（The Development of British Naval Thinking）。

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States' maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and a...(展开全部)

杰弗里·蒂尔（Geoffrey Till），海上战略研究的权威，现任英国三军联合指挥和参谋学院伦敦国王学院科贝特海洋政策研究中心主任。他的作品有《空权和皇家海军》（Air Power and the Royal Navy）、《核时代的海上战略》（Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age），以及最新的《英国海军思想史》（The Development of British Naval Thinking）。