A worldwide survey of legal history that draws on a vast repertoire of texts and traditions. Pirie, a professor of the anthropology of law at Oxford and a specialist in Tibetan culture, notes that even among the nomadic peoples of the high Himalayan plateau, legal codes have developed to determine who can use a given patch of grassland and speak on behalf of their band. “Small ...(展开全部)

Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order.But laws were not simplyinstrumentsof power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diversevisions for a better world. InThe Rule of Laws, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirietracesthe rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, whil...(展开全部)

在《哈布斯堡王朝》中，马丁·拉迪讲述了一个王朝及其在近一千年间建立并最终消失的世界的史诗故事。哈布斯堡王朝从不起眼的家族开始，在 15 世纪控制了神圣罗马帝国。然后，在几十年内，他们的领地迅速扩张，占据了欧洲大部分地区，从匈牙利延伸到西班牙，以及新大陆和远东的部分地区。哈布斯堡王朝在一战期间统治着中欧。 历史学家经常将哈布斯堡王朝描绘成一个摇摇欲坠的帝国的领导人。但拉迪揭示了他们持久的力量，这种力量是由这样的信念驱动的：他们注定要统治世界，成为罗马天主教会的捍卫者、和平的保证者和学习的赞助者。这是一个永远改变欧洲和世界的王朝的非凡历史。 In?The?Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built—and then lost—over n...(展开全部)

The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. The...(展开全部)

Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have shaped and altered the conception of God is a tour de force. One of Britain's foremost commentators on religious ...(展开全部)

Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have shaped and altered the conception of God is a tour de force. One of Britain's foremost commentators on religious ...(展开全部)

The rule of law, once widely embraced and emulated, now faces serious threats to its viability. To get our bearings we must return to first principles. This book articulates and defends a comprehensive, coherent, and compelling conception of the rule of law and defends it against serious challenges to its intelligibility, relevance, and normative force. The rule of law's ambiti...(展开全部)

The rule of law, once widely embraced and emulated, now faces serious threats to its viability. To get our bearings we must return to first principles. This book articulates and defends a comprehensive, coherent, and compelling conception of the rule of law and defends it against serious challenges to its intelligibility, relevance, and normative force. The rule of law's ambiti...(展开全部)

"When Corporations Rule the World" explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on...(展开全部)

Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with the complexities of our known world to the latest application of infinity in physics, The Road to Reality carefully explores the movement of the smallest atomic...(展开全部)