[俄罗斯] 叶卡捷琳娜·普拉维洛娃，普林斯顿大学历史系教授，俄罗斯、东欧和欧亚研究项目主任。所著图书《公共帝国:俄罗斯帝国的财产和对共同利益的追求》《合法性和个人权利:俄罗斯的行政司法》《帝国的财政:俄罗斯帝国边境政策中的金钱和权力》((以俄文出版)屡获殊荣。

The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history. Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation’s economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces. The story of tobacco’s fortunes ...(展开全部)

“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.”—The New York Times Book Review “An impressive work of scholarship evincing years of spadework… A well-told story.”—The Wall Street Journal “A nuanced and ultimately devastating indictment of government complicity with the worst...(展开全部)

The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India. In a broad-ranging, accessible narrative, Peter Jackson traces the history of the Sultanate from its foundation in 1210 to its demise in 1400 at the sack of Delhi by the Central Asian conqueror, Tamerlane. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Sultanate was the principal bastion of Islam i...(展开全部)

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)

[英]伊安·汉普歇尔-蒙克，英国埃克塞特大学政治理论教席荣休教授，享誉国际的《政治思想史》（History of Political Thought）杂志创刊主编，其著述包括《现代政治思想史：从霍布斯到马克思》《比较视野中的概念史》 《政治理论中的概念和理性》等，作品多次被翻译为法文、德文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文、荷兰文、土耳其文和韩文。

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinker...(展开全部)

Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the intellectual paradigms that underpinned them. The result is a radically new account of the discipline’s development, together with ...(展开全部)

Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance ...(展开全部)

Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over...(展开全部)