After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 19931994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP remains the most successful political party in a democracy in the postWorld War II period. In The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP,...(展开全部)

After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 19931994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP remains the most successful political party in a democracy in the postWorld War II period. In The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP,...(展开全部)

Drawing on political theory, comparative politics, international relations, psychology and classics, Ned Lebow offers insights into why social and political orders form, how they evolve, and why and how they decline. Following The Tragic Vision of Politics and A Cultural Theory of International Relations, this book thus completes Lebow's trilogy with an original theory of polit...(展开全部)

W·理查德·斯科特(W．Richard Scott)生于1932年，美国斯坦福大学著名社会学家，独著或台著的著作主要有《正式组织：一种比较视角》(1962)、《组织：理性的、自然的与开放的系统》(1981)。《制度变迁与医疗保健组织：从专业人员支配到看护行政化》(2000)。《组织与组织化：理性的、自然的与开放的系统观》(2007)等。1988年获得美国管理学会管理与组织理论分会杰出学者奖，1996年获得美国管理学会理查德·D·埃尔文奖。

W·理查德·斯科特(W．Richard Scott)生于1932年，美国斯坦福大学著名社会学家，独著或台著的著作主要有《正式组织：一种比较视角》(1962)、《组织：理性的、自然的与开放的系统》(1981)。《制度变迁与医疗保健组织：从专业人员支配到看护行政化》(2000)。《组织与组织化：理性的、自然的与开放的系统观》(2007)等。1988年获得美国管理学会管理与组织理论分会杰出学者奖，1996年获得美国管理学会理查德·D·埃尔文奖。

[美]爱德华•德瑞（Edward Drea），毕业于纽约州布法罗市凯尼休斯学院，曾在日本和越南服过兵役。后经学习，在日本东京上智大学获得国际关系学的文科硕士，并又于堪萨斯大学取得了日本现代史专业的博士学位。他曾任教于堪萨斯州利文沃思堡美国陆军指挥参谋学院和宾夕法尼亚州美国陆军战争学院。他还曾担任华盛顿特区美国陆军军事历史中心研究与分析部门的主管。他的其他著作包括《麦克阿瑟的超极机密：对日密码战 1942-1945》（MacArthur’s ULTRA：Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945）和《效忠天皇：日本陆军研究文集》(In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army)。

[美]爱德华•德瑞（Edward Drea），毕业于纽约州布法罗市凯尼休斯学院，曾在日本和越南服过兵役。后经学习，在日本东京上智大学获得国际关系学的文科硕士，并又于堪萨斯大学取得了日本现代史专业的博士学位。他曾任教于堪萨斯州利文沃思堡美国陆军指挥参谋学院和宾夕法尼亚州美国陆军战争学院。他还曾担任华盛顿特区美国陆军军事历史中心研究与分析部门的主管。他的其他著作包括《麦克阿瑟的超极机密：对日密码战 1942-1945》（MacArthur’s ULTRA：Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945）和《效忠天皇：日本陆军研究文集》(In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army)。

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)