China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa. It's Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into the continent, investing in long-term assets such as factories and heavy equipment. Considering Africa's difficult history of colonialism, one might susp...(展开全部)

'This little book is full of insights about who we are and where we are going.' - Financial Times The most accessible book yet by one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Runaway World evaluates the ever-increasing impact of globalization today. Extending his arguments beyond the merely economic, Giddens shows how our growing interdependence directly affects our everyd...(展开全部)

安东尼·吉登斯（Anthony Giddes），英国著名学者，现任伦敦政治经济学院院长，曾任英国布莱尔首相和美国前总统克林顿顾问，出版著作30余部。

A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today. For the first time in history, there are now more people in the world living in cities than in rural areas, and many of them are clustering on the urban o...(展开全部)

A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today. For the first time in history, there are now more people in the world living in cities than in rural areas, and many of them are clustering on the urban o...(展开全部)

Two Economist writers show how and why religion is booming around the world and reveal its vast effects on the global economy, politics, and more On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century—or even tried to stamp it out—are now run by avowedly religious leaders. ...(展开全部)

David Dreman's name is synonymous with the term 'contrarian investing', and his contrarian strategies have been proven winners year after year. Now Dreman offers four all-new contrarian investment tactics that are sure to deliver high-percentage returns, regardless of the size of your portfolio. These tactics have resulted in Dreman's High Return Equity Fund being the leader ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔舒亚•B.弗里曼是一位杰出的历史教授，在纽约城市大学皇后学院和研究生中心。他的早期著作包括《美利坚帝国》（American Empire）和《纽约工人阶级》（Working-Class New York）等。他住在纽约市。 . . 【译者简介】 李珂，1997年生，本科毕业于河南大学，现为白俄罗斯国立大学历史系在读研究生，民族学人类学方向。 研究问题：俄苏的车臣问题、晚期莫卧儿帝国。豆瓣主页kekede1997

A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills." Many factories that o...(展开全部)

This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little–known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path i...(展开全部)