Description Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More tha...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond. During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these dark a...(展开全部)

图拉吉·达利遥义（Touraj Daryaee），美籍伊朗裔伊朗学学者，生于伊朗，出版此书时任教于加利福尼亚大学欧文分校，是伊朗和波斯世界史教授和萨缪尔·乔丹波斯研究中心的副主任，兼任《国际古代伊朗学研究》的编辑，专长古代和中世纪早期的伊朗历史，是当今最重要的萨珊史学家之一。

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

P. S.阿蒂亚（P. S. Atiyah），英国学术院院士（F. B. A）、牛津大学英国法教授和圣约翰学院院士。是英国最著名的法学学者之一，其研究领域涵盖侵权法、合同法、法理学和法制史等，且他在所有这些研究领域中都有极高建树。 范雪飞，法学博士、西南政法大学教授。2009年获法学博士学位，2019年被评为教授，次年被聘为博士生导师。2013年至2014年受国家留学基金委资助到德国马克斯-普朗克外国私法与国际私法研究所访学。出版专著译著数部，在《法律科学》《法学评论》《现代法学》《北方法学》《中德私法研究》《浙江社会科学》《人大法律评论》等刊物发表学术论文三十余篇。

"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collecti...(展开全部)

迈克尔•华纳（Michael Warner），美国国防部历史学家、前中央情报局和国家情报主任办公室历史学家，曾在美利坚大学、约翰•霍普金斯大学和哥伦比亚大学执教。他的研究方向包括情报历史、情报理论和改革。 黄日涵，任职于华侨大学国际关系学院，国际关系博士。中国与全球化智库研究员,凤凰国际智库高级研究员。 邱培兵，凤凰国际智库研究员。主要研究领域为比较语言学及实用词典学。

Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of leadership success that hid cracks in its foundation. In a masterful appraisal of the company that claimed to "bring good things to life," William B. Cohan, one of Am...(展开全部)