From Scientific American Spruyt ... shows that sovereign states of Europe emerged from the decline of feudalism as urban units gained freedom and formed leagues.... He also puts into perspective the European Union that today's nationstates are attempting to put together.... A significant contribution to political science and to European history. From The New Yorker Spruyt takes...(展开全部)

Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. This book examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596). As the author argues in this study, Bodin's most lasting theoretical contribution was his thesis that sovereignty must be conceptualized as an indivisible bundl...(展开全部)

The state is the most massive and significant modern expression of the broader phenomenon of political power. This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy. Poggi presents an extensive conceptual portrait of the state, distinguishing its early characteristics from those w...(展开全部)

Today's students want to practice the application of concepts. As with the previous editions of this book, the authors write to balance the coverage of concepts, tools, techniques, and their applications, and to provide the most examples of system analysis and design deliverables available in any book. The textbook also serves the reader as a professional reference for best cur...(展开全部)

马里乌斯·詹森（Marius Jansen, 1922-2000），哈佛大学博士，普林斯顿大学荣誉教授，日本史、中日关系史专家。1969年创立普林斯顿大学东亚研究系，并担任首任主任。1999年成为首位获得日本文化功劳者称号的外国人。《剑桥日本史》主编，代表作有《日本人与 孙中山》 （1954）、《坂本龙马与明治维新》（1961）、《日本人的世界观》（1975）、《日本和中国：从战争到和平，1894—1972》（1975）、《德川时代与中国文化》（1992）、《现代日本的形成》（2000）等。 柳立言，普林斯顿大学博士，中研院历史语言研究所研究员，研究方向为宋代法律和社会史，著作包括《宋代的宗教、身分与司法》《宋代的家庭和法律》等。

Long recognized as an authority on Japanese history, Marius Jansen synthesizes a lifetime of scholarship in this landmark book. Bringing together the series of Brown and Haley lectures delivered in 1975 at the University of Puget Sound, Japan and Its World continues to be a source of insight for anyone interested in the changing ideas the Japanese have had of themselves, the Un...(展开全部)

This book presents the theory and applications of Fourier series and integrals, Laplace Transforms, eigenfunction expansions, and related topics. It deals almost exclusively with those aspects of Fourier analysis that are useful in physics and engineering. Using ideas from modern analysis, it discusses the concepts and reasoning behind the techniques without getting bogged d...(展开全部)