The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

内森·罗森堡，著名技术史专家，斯坦福大学经济学家，曾出版过《创新之路：美国20世纪的技术变化》、《技术与国民财富》、《黑匣子：技术和经济学》等多部著作。

In this elegant synthesis of economic history, two scholars argue that it is the political pluralism and the flexibility of the West's institutions--not corporate organization and mass production technology--that explain its unparalleled wealth.

内森·罗森堡，著名技术史专家，斯坦福大学经济学家，曾出版过《创新之路：美国20世纪的技术变化》、《技术与国民财富》、《黑匣子：技术和经济学》等多部著作。

内森·罗森堡，著名技术史专家，斯坦福大学经济学家，曾出版过《创新之路：美国20世纪的技术变化》、《技术与国民财富》、《黑匣子：技术和经济学》等多部著作。

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

伯特兰·罗素(1872—1970)，英国著名的哲学家、数学家、文学家和社会活动家，先后执教于剑桥大学、哈佛大学、芝加哥大学、加州大学等世界知名高等学府，是20世纪西方社会最著名且拥有最广泛读者的思想大师，被称为“世纪的智者”。爱因斯坦曾说：“阅读罗素的作品，是我一生中最快乐的时光之一。”60年代罗素曾将他的巨著《西方哲学史》一书寄赠给中国伟人毛泽东，而《西方的智慧》正是在此基础上勾勒新意，笔耕而成。

Stated price refers to time limited discount for orders of the three volume pack purchase only. This offer is valid until one month after publication after which the price of the set will increase to £295. The only modern comprehensive edition of the fragments of the Roman historians, which will be the standard scholarly work of reference for the foreseeable future The only edi...(展开全部)