One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law's inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this bo...(展开全部)

【英】乔纳森·特纳（Jonathan D. C. Turner），生于1958年，在剑桥大学、布鲁塞尔自由大学取得法学学士、法学硕士学位，是一位经验丰富的英国大律师，擅长知识产权和竞争法。他在涉及知识产权法、商法、竞争法、国际贸易法等领域的案件中拥有丰富的经验，著有多部法学专著和文章。 李硕，生于1989年，在中国政法大学取得法学学士、法学硕士学位，在荷兰马斯特里赫特大学取得法学博士学位，现为大连海事大学法学院讲师，研究领域包括竞争法（反垄断法）、国际法、法经济学。 李京泽，生于1990年，中南大学工学学士，并获得中国政法大学法律硕士学位和德国汉堡大学LL.M学位，现为上海天聿格律师事务所执业律师，服务于娱乐传媒、互联网和高新科技行业，专业领域为著作权法、专利法和反不正当竞争法。

Dr. Peter Drahos is Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of South Australia. Dr. Peter Drahos is the Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property in the Intellectual Property Unit in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London. He holds degrees in law, politics, and philosophy. He has taught in the Department of Politics at the Universit...(展开全部)

Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents--who emphasize the importance of providing incentives for producers of creative works-- from skeptics who emphasize the need for free and open access to knowledge. In a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis, Robert P. Merges establishes ...(展开全部)

This outstanding work on the history of philosophy and ideas, written by world-renowned philosopher, historian of philosophy, and teacher John Herman Randall, Jr., is now available for the first time in paperback. Long acclaimed a contemporary classic, "The Making of the Modern Mind" displays the comprehensiveness, clarity of style, balance, and wit that came to characterize al...(展开全部)

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the ...(展开全部)

Review By choosing to consider the rich interface between liberalism and philosophy (rather than, say, sociology or party organisation), Ryan has opened up a vast and exciting field for exploration and debate. The reader will find not only discussion of the manifold contributions of the great philosophers (biographical details where appropriate and available) but also insights ...(展开全部)

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion ...(展开全部)

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion ...(展开全部)

Second Edition China's entry into the World Trade Organization in December 2001 was a catalyst for China to overhaul its intellectual property system. At the same time, the transparency and anti-corruption reforms in the People's Court, government units, cadre system and state-owned enterprises, in conjunction with the central leadership's official endorsement of the rule of la...(展开全部)