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)

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。

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。

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 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)

"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)