David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical, the Royal Scottish Geographical and the American Geographical Societies, a Fellow of the British Academy and honorary D.Litt. Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2010 he was awarded the Forbes Lecture Prize by the In...(展开全部)

In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present develops. Some aspects of the past are celebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its l...(展开全部)

琳賽・希爾遜（Lindsey Hilsum） 琳賽・希爾遜是英國第四台新聞的國際編輯。她曾報導過去二十五年來眾多重大衝突和國際事件，包括在敘利亞、烏克蘭、伊拉克和科索沃的戰爭；阿拉伯之春；和盧安達的大屠殺。她的作品散見《紐約書評》（The New York Review of Books）、《衛報》和《格蘭塔》（Granta）。她的第一本著作《沙塵暴：革命時代的利比亞》（Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution）曾進入二○一二年衛報首作獎（Guardian First Book Award）的決選名單。 譯者簡介 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語文學系、廣播電視學系畢業，曾任出版社編輯，現為書籍譯者。譯有《手寫時代》、《穆罕默德：宣揚謙卑、寬容與和平的先知》、《時光出土：考古學的故事》、《原始富足》、《漁的大歷史》等書...(展开全部)

David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical, the Royal Scottish Geographical and the American Geographical Societies, a Fellow of the British Academy and honorary D.Litt. Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2010 he was awarded the Forbes Lecture Prize by the In...(展开全部)

Neoclassical realism is an important new approach to international relations. Focusing on the interaction of the international system and the internal dynamics of states, neoclassical realism seeks to explain the grand strategies of individual states as opposed to recurrent patterns of international outcomes. This book offers the first systematic survey of the neoclassical real...(展开全部)

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David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical, the Royal Scottish Geographical and the American Geographical Societies, a Fellow of the British Academy and honorary D.Litt. Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2010 he was awarded the Forbes Lecture Prize by the In...(展开全部)

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics, for only if states are rational can scholars and policymakers understand a...(展开全部)