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)

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 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)

Prussia, a state which contributed so much to European civilization, only exis-ted as an independent power for 170 years. Sebastian Haffner, a Prussian by birth, reassesses the legend and tells the short but dramatic history of this unique state. He casts fresh light on its foundation, its struggle to become a great power in the eighteenth century, its important role as one of ...(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。

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。

"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)