Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a c...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

The French political philosopher and historian Francois Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, thinkers who sought to avoid the interpretations of the Revolution advanced by either extreme of Left or Right. He argued that in order to understand the nature of political institutions it is necessary to study first the society, its composition, and the relation betw...(展开全部)

Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipline's stature and enmeshing their work in a progressive restructuring of society...(展开全部)

In this famous book Philip Bell examines the European origins of the Second World War from three different angles: first, he sets out the various explanations which have been offered for the war, and discusses the historiographical debates to which they have given rise; he then analyses the major underlying forces - ideological, economic and strategic - that were at work in Eur...(展开全部)

P.M.H.贝尔（P.M.H.Bell），英国欧洲近现代史专家，利物浦大学荣誉高级教席享有者，长于欧洲国际关系史研究。著有《法国与英国（1900—1940）：协约与疏离》、《法国与英国（1940—1994）：长分裂》以及《第二次世界大战的起源：欧洲战场》。其中《第二次世界大战的起源》自1986年首版后多次再版，是其重要代表作。 杨光海，解放军国际关系学院国际战略系教授，国家安全战略研究中心主任。著有《国际安全制度及其在东亚的实践》，参与翻译《二十世纪世界史》。 丁山，解放军国际关系学院副教授。

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studyin...(展开全部)

●进化生物学家，殿堂级科学巨星，有“社会生物学之父”“当代达尔文”之称，提出了生物多样性、知识大融通等概念，创立了岛屿生物地理学、社会生物学等学科。 ●累计获得过100多项国际大奖，其中包括美国国家科学奖、“生态诺贝尔奖”克拉福德奖等。被《时代周刊》评为“对当代美国影响最大的25位美国人”之一。 ●哈佛大学荣誉教授，哈佛大学昆虫馆荣誉馆长，截止目前出版了20余部权威著作，代表作有《社会生物学》《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》等，两度问鼎普利策奖。

Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first to recognize that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. “With the Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt emerges as ...(展开全部)