A new nation has appeared within the United States since the Civil War, but it has been only accidentally connected with that catastrophe. The Constitution emerged from the confusion of strife and reconstruction substantially unchanged, but the economic development of the United States in the sixties and seventies gave birth to a society that was, by 1885, already national in i...(展开全部)

麥可‧布林（Michael Breen） 出生於英國，成長期間住過葉門、德國、英格蘭和蘇格蘭，在愛丁堡大學主修英國文學和語言學，畢業後到北海鑽油平台工作了幾年。1982年以記者身分前往韓國，替多家報社報導南北韓情勢，包括英國的《衛報》與《泰晤士報》，以及美國的《華盛頓時報》。後來擔任諮詢顧問，提供企業與北韓相關的資訊，接著經營自己的公關公司，目前定居於首爾。其他著作有《金正日：北韓親愛的領導人》、《韓國人：他們是誰、他們想要什麼、他們的未來在何處》、《早年的文鮮明：1920年到1953年》。 譯者：方祖芳 專職譯者，第23屆與28屆梁實秋文學獎譯文組評審獎得主。譯作包括《一生設計》、《創意電力公司》、《飛行少年》、《跟蹤雷普利》、《迷走亞馬遜》、《走對下一步》等書。

[英]T.M.迪瓦恩(T. M. Devine)， 爱尔兰皇家科学院名誉会员、爱丁堡皇家学会会员及英国学术院会员，是英国和爱尔兰唯一位同时在上述三个学会拥有会员身份的历史学家，现为爱丁堡大学历史学讲座教授、苏格兰侨民研究中心主任。迪瓦恩在2001年被授予苏格兰的最高学术荣誉——皇家金质奖章，他的代表作包括《苏格兰的帝国:全球苏格兰侨民的起源》 (Scotland' s Empire: The 0rigins of the Global Diaspora) 和《直到大地尽头:遍布世界的苏格兰侨民》 (To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland' s Global Diaspora) 。

Both Western historians and Chinese nationalists have argued that from early times China had the features of a nation state: a common language, culture, and bureaucracy. This argument is important not only because it affects our understanding of how nations are constructed but also because Chinese nationalism is today a vital ingredient in both the domestic politics of the Peop...(展开全部)

In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his new billion-dollar project. Lewis...(展开全部)

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape - which launched the Information Ag...(展开全部)

Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of Bacon's time, and left its mark on all subsequent discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into moder...(展开全部)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854) was a colleague of Hegel, Holderlin, Fichte, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schiller. Always a champion of Romanticism, Schelling advocated a philosophy which emphasized intuition over reason, which maintained aesthetics and the creative imagination to be of the highest value. At the same time, Schellings concerns for the self and the r...(展开全部)