The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire. Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rura...(展开全部)

Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to explore the labyrinthine history of how colonialism transformed rich and complex plant worlds into biological knowledge. Botany...(展开全部)

Part of the Nationalist Revolution Series. In the wake of worldwide Nationalist revolution, a young Republican Senator running on a platform of Libertarian Nationalism, is elected President of the United States. Now begins the greatest task ever faced by any president in history, to make America what it would have been if good people had been running things from the beginning.

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -...(展开全部)

Exploratory sex magic. Experimentation with mind-altering drugs. Astral travel. Alchemy. Alex Owen's new book, The Place of Enchantment, situates these seemingly anachronistic practices squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality in a compelling demonstration of how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern lif...(展开全部)

The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as...(展开全部)

A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change. -- The New York Times "No praise can be too high." -- The New York Review of Books At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the ...(展开全部)

A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change. -- The New York Times "No praise can be too high." -- The New York Review of Books At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the ...(展开全部)

[美] 琼·伯科·格利森（Jean Berko Gleason） 世界知名儿童语言专家，心理语言学领域的开创者之一，于1958年创立著名的儿童语言习得实验研究“Wug测试”。美国哈佛大学历史学与文学学士、语言学与心理学博士，波士顿大学心理学与脑科学系荣誉退休教授，美国科学促进协会（AAAS）会员，美国心理学会会员，儿童语言研究国际协会主席。出版多部心理语言学方面的著作，在儿童语言发展、失语症性别差异和亲子互动等领域持续进行研究。 [美] 娜恩·伯恩斯坦·拉特纳（Nan Bernstein Ratner） 美国马里兰大学帕克分校听力与言语科学系教授，美国科学促进协会（AAAS）成员。研究集中于典型和非典型亲子互动以及儿童语言发展方面，重点研究口吃儿童和癫痫患儿。发表多篇专业研究报告，与琼·伯科·格利森博士合著《心理语言学》和《语言的发展》的早期版本。 ...(展开全部)

威廉·西尔伯（William Silber） 纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融与经济学系教授，格拉克斯曼证券市场研究学会会长。他曾是格林斯潘的老师，伯南克的同事。早年曾在纽约商品交易所当过交易员，先后出任雷曼兄弟贸易战略常务理事、总统经济顾问委员会资深经济学家、纽联储经济咨询委员会委员。他因金融学和银行学的专业度备受尊崇，曾任美联储、参议院商务委员会、众议院银行、金融服务委员会、总统金融结构和监管委员会等顾问。 西尔伯在经济学和金融史方面著述甚丰，著有《货币银行与金融市场》《当华盛顿关闭华尔街》等。