The first two years of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America will increasingly promote the international rule of law - a position that many believe is both ethically necessary and in the nation's best interests. With "The Perils of Global Legalism", Eric A. Posner explains that such views demons...(展开全部)

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience ma...(展开全部)

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well ...(展开全部)

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well ...(展开全部)

Archimedes' Revenge is an extremely accessible, lighthearted account of a number of mathematical topics, many with modern interest, such as complexity theory. Hoffman quotes living mathematicians extensively, giving the reader a feel for the nature of the mathematical community and insight into how this community attempts to resolve open questions. This book is low in mathemati...(展开全部)

雅尼斯·瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis，1961— ），希腊当代著名政治经济学家，主要研究领域为政治经济学和博弈论，曾先后任教埃塞克斯大学、东英吉利大学、悉尼大学、雅典大学、德克萨斯大学，现为雅典大学经济学教授。2015年1月出任希腊财政部长，7月辞职。他还著有《博弈论批判导引》、《现代政治经济学》（合著）等作品。

The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance of power tips toward Beijing. They cooperate and compete at the same time, but if competition deteriorates into military conflict, the entire world has much to lose. The Perils of Proximity evaluates the chances of armed conflict between China a...(展开全部)

大卫 ·戈德布拉特生于1965年，现在英格兰莱斯特的德蒙福特大学和美国洛杉矶的匹泽学院任教。 他出版了多本备受赞誉的足球书籍:《足球是圆的》（The Ball is Round,2006)，这是一部惊人的、雄心勃勃的足球全球史；《我们生活的游戏》（The Game of Our Lives,2014），讲述了英国足球的意义和源起，这本书获得了威廉·希尔年度体育图书大奖；《足球国度》（Futebol Nation,2014），这是一部巴西足球的历史。他还编辑过《世界足球年鉴》（The World Football Yearbook），制作了多部体育纪录片，时常给《卫报》和《纽约时报》供稿。

Most of us are in the stock market, but few of us understand how it really works. This book explains the hidden dynamics of Wall Street, and its message is urgent and disturbing. As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to co...(展开全部)

This is a groundbreaking, critical work―a major contribution to the field of competition law. (Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society) Ezrachi and Stucke provide a compelling analysis challenging the orthodoxy that modern technology empowers consumers. Their findings will send a shiver down the spine of consumers, businesses, public policy makers and anyone working in ...(展开全部)