Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mank...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of author of The Romanovs -- a magisterial history of humanity viewed through the lens of its most powerful dynasties In this sprawling and eye-opening book, best-selling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people...(展开全部)

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian Patrick Manning traces how this Human System evolved from Homo sapiens’ beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization – the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today’s newly globa...(展开全部)

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly glob...(展开全部)

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free ...(展开全部)

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike ? either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a c...(展开全部)

“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’—the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”—Kyle Harper, The Wall Street Journal Johannes Krause is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a brilliant pioneer in the field of archaeogenetics—archaeology augment...(展开全部)

阿伦·拉奥（Arun Rao），毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森工商管理学院，长期从事投资业务，曾先后在三家投资公司工作，其中两家在硅谷。拉奥早期曾为《经济学人》（The Economist）和《Seeking Alpha》等杂志撰写商业和金融方面的文章。 皮埃罗·斯加鲁菲（Piero Scarruffi ），毕业于意大利都灵大学数学系，1983年来到硅谷，在奥利维蒂公司任职工程师，长期从事人工智能研究和互联网设计。斯加鲁菲曾是斯坦福大学访问学者，还曾在加州大学伯克利分校讲学。20世纪90年代，他曾率先在互联网上开发自己的新闻网站，《纽约时报》曾经在2006年以《史上最伟大的网站》为题对其进行专题报道。斯加鲁菲现在是自由职业者，主要工作是为硅谷和欧洲的公司提供咨询以及在大学讲学。他兴趣广泛，在心智论、文学艺术、音乐史等领域多有...(展开全部)

This book guides students through all the central historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history.