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)

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)。

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 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)

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics...(展开全部)

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics...(展开全部)

A critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. It offers an intervention in debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in the American educational system.

A critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. It offers an intervention in debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in the American educational system.

【作者简介】 斯蒂芬•格林布拉特（Stephen Greenblatt），著名文学批评家、莎士比亚研究学者、作家，哈佛大学约翰•科根校级教授（John Cogan University Professor），《诺顿版莎士比亚全集》主编，曾获梅隆杰出人文学者奖、普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等，著有《大转向》、《莎士比亚的自由》（以上两部作品已由甲骨文推出中文版）、Will in the World、Tyrant等知名作品。 【译者简介】 生安锋，清华大学人文学院外文系长聘教授、博士生导师，中国比较文学学会理事，国际比较文学学会会员，美国哈佛大学博士后，中美富布赖特高级研究学者。研究领域包括英美文学、当代西方文论、比较文学、文化研究等。