迈克尔·怀特(Michael White)是一颗耀眼的新星，一位世界级畅销书作家。1991年前，他在英国剑桥大学主讲科技发展，尔后成为专业作家。至今他已出版25部作品，包括著名科学家的传记、科学技术史、科技侦探小说等，许多作品已被译成数十种文字，主要有《霍金传》、《达·芬奇传》、《达尔文传》、《托尔金传》、《牛顿传》、《阿西莫夫传》、《子夜奇案》等。 导言 科技是双刃剑

Since man first wielded a stick in anger, war and conflict have been prime movers in the progress of science and technology. In our earliest days the impetus may have been as simple as protecting territory or a food supply; more recently science has benefited from massive injections of cash when national security is at stake. But as Michael White demonstrates in this superbly w...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛格丽特•麦克米伦（Margaret MacMillan），历史研究与国际关系领域的领军人物，也是牛津大学国际历史系的名誉教授和多伦多大学历史学教授。曾担任多伦多大学三一学院和牛津大学圣安东尼学院的院长。麦克米伦的曾外祖父就是《缔造和平》的主角之一、英国前首相劳合•乔治，她的多部作品均与其曾外祖父从政的时代背景密切相关。《缔造和平》一书是麦克米伦的代表作，斩获达夫•库珀杰作奖、西塞尔•提尔曼历史著作奖、塞缪尔•约翰逊非虚构类杰作奖等众多奖项。她于2021年获得了普利兹克军事写作终身成就文学奖。 她此前的作品包括《缔造和平：1919巴黎和会及其开启的战后世界》《和平戛然而止：通往1914年之路》《当尼克松遇上毛泽东：改变世界的一周》《历史的运用与滥用》等。 译者简介 巴扬，译者，曾担任出版策划编辑，北京大学中国文学专业与国际关系专业双学士，英...(展开全部)

The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and c...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛格丽特•麦克米伦（Margaret MacMillan），历史研究与国际关系领域的领军人物，也是牛津大学国际历史系的名誉教授和多伦多大学历史学教授。曾担任多伦多大学三一学院和牛津大学圣安东尼学院的院长。麦克米伦的曾外祖父就是《缔造和平》的主角之一、英国前首相劳合•乔治，她的多部作品均与其曾外祖父从政的时代背景密切相关。《缔造和平》一书是麦克米伦的代表作，斩获达夫•库珀杰作奖、西塞尔•提尔曼历史著作奖、塞缪尔•约翰逊非虚构类杰作奖等众多奖项。她于2021年获得了普利兹克军事写作终身成就文学奖。 她此前的作品包括《缔造和平：1919巴黎和会及其开启的战后世界》《和平戛然而止：通往1914年之路》《当尼克松遇上毛泽东：改变世界的一周》《历史的运用与滥用》等。 译者简介 巴扬，译者，曾担任出版策划编辑，北京大学中国文学专业与国际关系专业双学士，英...(展开全部)

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering...(展开全部)

The China-Vietnam War in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm politic al and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, and catalyzed a decadelong conflict. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots o...(展开全部)

Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. <br/><br/> From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentiet...(展开全部)

During the thirteenth century, Mongol armies under Chinggis Khan and his successors established the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe. Contemporary descriptions of their conquests have led to a popular misconception that the Mongols were an undisciplined horde of terrifying horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force ...(展开全部)