The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate the fate of leftism around the world. Andre Gide (France), Richard Wright (the United...(展开全部)

Churchman or merchant, soldier or sanitary engineer, everyone who lives in a city sees it differently. Envisioning the City explores how these points of urban view have been expressed in city plans. Ranging from vertical plans to bird's-eye views, profiles, and three-dimensional models, these diverse maps all show cities "the way people want to see them." Whether a Chinese vert...(展开全部)

Kissinger's five leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger brilliantly...(展开全部)

“Leaders,” writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, “think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and un...(展开全部)

‘Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and unc...(展开全部)

Abridged CDs • 5 CDs, 6 hours Daniel Levitin follows up his acclaimed New York Times –bestselling first book, This Is Your Brain on Music , with The World in Six Songs , an audacious look at how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms and gave rise to human culture.

【作者简介】 扎拉·斯坦纳(Zar金teiner1928-2020)，生于美国的英国历史学家，英国国家学术院院士，研究方向为外交关系、国际关系，以及20世纪的欧洲史和美国史。 【译者简介】 石志宏，南京大学国际关系史专业博士，现任扬州大学外国语学院教师，研究方向为非洲安全、海上安全、国际关系史、中外关系史等。译有《铁三角:透视凯雷集团的秘密世界》等。

【作者简介】 扎拉·斯坦纳(Zar金teiner1928-2020)，生于美国的英国历史学家，英国国家学术院院士，研究方向为外交关系、国际关系，以及20世纪的欧洲史和美国史。 【译者简介】 石志宏，南京大学国际关系史专业博士，现任扬州大学外国语学院教师，研究方向为非洲安全、海上安全、国际关系史、中外关系史等。译有《铁三角:透视凯雷集团的秘密世界》等。

From Publishers Weekly A joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "just and lasting war." Six months of parleying concluded on June 28 with Germany's coerced agreement to a treaty no Allied statesman had fully read, according to MacMillan, a history professor at the ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly A joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "just and lasting war." Six months of parleying concluded on June 28 with Germany's coerced agreement to a treaty no Allied statesman had fully read, according to MacMillan, a history professor at the ...(展开全部)