The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize...(展开全部)

The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize...(展开全部)

作者簡介 亞凱迪．歐卓夫斯基Arkady Ostrovsky 出生於俄國的英籍記者，在莫斯科撰寫報導十五年，首先服務於《金融時報》，接著擔任《經濟學人》莫斯科分部主任。他在莫斯科研讀俄羅斯戲劇史，並獲劍橋大學英語文學博士學位。他將湯姆．史塔佩（Tom Stoppard）的舞台劇三部曲《烏托邦之岸》（The Coast of Utopia）譯成俄語，於俄國演出與出版。本書獲得二〇一六年的歐威爾獎，即評選傑出政治評論著作與報導的年度獎項。 譯者簡介 楊芩雯 做過記者和編輯，現為專職譯者。報導文學譯作有《普丁的國家》、《總統的人馬》、《柬埔寨：被詛咒的國度》。譯作《強尼上戰場》獲二○一五年中國時報開卷好書獎翻譯類。

This book brings to light Russia's undeservedly-obscure military past, rectifying the tendency of Western military historians to neglect the Russian perspective. Russia, as both a Western and non-Western society, challenges conventional thinking about Western military superiority. Russia has always struggled with economic backwardness in comparison with more developed powers, a...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept--the prisoner of war. For centuries, hundreds of thousands of captives, civilians and soldiers alike, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires, destined for either ransom or enslavement. But in the eighteenth century, the Otto...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept--the prisoner of war. For centuries, hundreds of thousands of captives, civilians and soldiers alike, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires, destined for either ransom or enslavement. But in the eighteenth century, the Otto...(展开全部)

威廉•本内特是美国教育家和社会活动家，也是著名的畅销书作者。他的《美德书》和《儿童美德书》是美国过去十年中最成功的畅销书，曾在包括中国在内的65个国家出版发行。本内特1943年7月31日生于纽约布鲁克林，1965年在威廉斯学院获哲学学士学位，1970年获德克萨斯大学哲学博士学位，1971年获哈佛大学法学博士学位；1981-1985年担任全国人文学科基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities）主席，1985-1988年为里根政府的教育部长，1989-1990年任全国毒品控制政策办公室主任。目前为止，他先后写作和主编了16本书，在美国很多有影响的报刊上发表大量文章评论，经常做客于美国一些有影响的电视节目中。在近几十年里，本内特被认为是“共和党人传统价值派的首席发言人”，对内宣传保守主义社会政策，对外主张强硬的外交路...(展开全部)

In this ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom,...(展开全部)