乔治·帕克，美国作家，记者。 1960年生，毕业于耶鲁大学。自2003年起连续十五年担任《纽约客》专职作者，两获海外记者俱乐部奖。现为《大西洋月刊》专职作者。 作为长期观察员和一线写作者，乔治·帕克深谙美国的历史变迁、经济发展和社会结构，深入从华盛顿到绣带工厂的生命世界 ，被视为最了解当代美国的作家之一。其作品《刺客之门》《我们的人》先后入围普利策奖，《下沉年代》于2013年因“撕开美国的破碎裂痕”获美国国家图书奖。 2019年，乔治·帕克获希钦斯奖，该奖旨在表彰“为自由表达和追求真理而不顾个人或职业后果”的作家。 ———— 刘冉，香港中文大学社会学学士、硕士，宾夕法尼亚大学社会学博士，曾任职于硅谷某科技公司，现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校教育政策研究系助理教授，译有《文凭社会》《暴力：一种微观社会学理论》等书。

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and loser s, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: ...(展开全部)

乔治·帕克，美国作家，记者。 1960年生，毕业于耶鲁大学。自2003年起连续十五年担任《纽约客》专职作者，两获海外记者俱乐部奖。现为《大西洋月刊》专职作者。 作为长期观察员和一线写作者，乔治·帕克深谙美国的历史变迁、经济发展和社会结构，深入从华盛顿到绣带工厂的生命世界 ，被视为最了解当代美国的作家之一。其作品《刺客之门》《我们的人》先后入围普利策奖，《下沉年代》于2013年因“撕开美国的破碎裂痕”获美国国家图书奖。 2019年，乔治·帕克获希钦斯奖，该奖旨在表彰“为自由表达和追求真理而不顾个人或职业后果”的作家。 ———— 刘冉，香港中文大学社会学学士、硕士，宾夕法尼亚大学社会学博士，曾任职于硅谷某科技公司，现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校教育政策研究系助理教授，译有《文凭社会》《暴力：一种微观社会学理论》等书。

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and loser s, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: ...(展开全部)

J.M.罗伯茨（1928—2003），英国著名公众史学家，牛津大学历史学教授，著有数十部具有广泛影响力的历史学作品，并曾为BBC《西方的胜利》《人民的世纪》等多个深受欢迎的历史节目系列担任主创、解说或历史顾问。他因“在教育与历史领域的贡献”荣获大英帝国勋章，还曾获得意大利荣誉骑士勋章。他还是《企鹅欧洲史》和《企鹅20世纪世界史》的作者。 O.A.维斯塔德，生于挪威， 1998年起担任伦敦经济学院国际关系史教授。他已出版15部关于现当代国际关系史的著作，其中包括荣获班克罗夫特奖的《全球冷战史》和《决定性的相遇》。他还担任了《剑桥冷战史》的联合主编，以及《冷战史》期刊的编辑。他的最新著作为《不安的帝国：1750年以来的中国与世界》。

They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. "The Inner Life of Empires" tells the intimate history of the Johnstones - four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth centur...(展开全部)

With a continued emphasis on interpretation and analysis, The Press and America remains the classic authority on the history of mass media in the United States. Recognizing that the development of America's journalism is inherently and integrally related to the cultural identity of its people, the heart of this book is an examination of American life and the American media. Th...(展开全部)

This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographical...(展开全部)

This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographical...(展开全部)

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred origi...(展开全部)