By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original i...(展开全部)

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific d...(展开全部)

Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. This book uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis...(展开全部)

Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. This book uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis...(展开全部)

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific d...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/Confucius-and-the-Modern-World/Chen/p/book/9780367582449 This book represents the cutting edge of theoretical works on Confucianism. Starting from Confucianism’s comeback in modern China and ending with the proposal of the new philosophical concept of “multiple universality” in the face of the world culture, the author conducts an in-depth analysis and...(展开全部)

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in ...(展开全部)

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resourc...(展开全部)

杰克·A.戈德斯通，乔治·梅森大学公共政策学院VirginiaE.andJohnT.HazelJr.讲座教授，曾因其学术名著《早期现代世界的革命与反抗》（加利福尼亚大学出版社1991年版）一书而获得美国社会学协会奖。

杰克·A.戈德斯通，乔治·梅森大学公共政策学院VirginiaE.andJohnT.HazelJr.讲座教授，曾因其学术名著《早期现代世界的革命与反抗》（加利福尼亚大学出版社1991年版）一书而获得美国社会学协会奖。