The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and thedemocratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay topromote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papersstand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy thatexists. They describe the ideas behind the American system ofgovernment: the separation of powers; the organization of Congress;the respective positions of the executive, legislative, andjudiciary; and much more. The Federalist remains essentialreading for anyone interested in politics and government, andindeed for anyone seeking a foundational statement about democracyand America. This new edition of The Federalist is edited by Robert Scigliano, aprofessor in the political science department at Boston College.His substantive Introduction sheds clarifying new light on thehistorical context and meaning of The Federalist . Scig
“An alarming but necessary book that reads like a thriller. Byraising uncomfortable questions, Ken Timmerman has performed asignificant public service.” –Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of alltime. It is an intelligence war conducted behind the scenes, aimed atconfusing, misleading, and ultimately defeating the enemy. The goalis nothing less than toppling the regime in power. A network ofagents has been planted at key crossroads of power, stealingsecrets, planting disinformation, and cooking intelligence. Theplan involves sophisticated political sabotage operations thatbring in opposition forces who can challenge the regime openly, ina way the CIA cannot. The scope is breathtaking. Who is the target of this vast, sophisticated CIA operation? Notthe mullahs in Tehran or North Korea’s power-mad Kim Jong Il; thetarget is America’s president, George W. Bush. Drawing on exclusive informati
A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanianwho penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highestreaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war onterror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist huntersgathered at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a risingsuperspy: Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who hadinfiltrated the inner circle of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sentsolid intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s operations center and nowpromised to help the CIA destroy the terrorist network. Instead, ashe stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strappedto his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agen?cy’sworst loss of life in decades. In The Triple Agent , Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter JobyWarrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s war against al-Qaeda. Hisaccount of the Khost attack exposes dangerous weak?nesses in anintelligence agency that has become overly reliant onremote-controlled drones, and he reveals t
人类一出现武装斗争，间谍便应运而生，成为最古老的两大职业之一。间谍活动神秘莫测，惊心动魄，涌现了不少大智大勇的人物，产生过许多引人入胜的故事。本书讲述了从古埃及、古罗马直至大数据时代下间谍的历史，跨越了5000余年。从中，读者可以看到： 古今谍海魅影秘密行动：摩西派间谍窥探迦南，马可·；波罗潜入东方搜集情报，盟军破译德军恩尼格玛密码，苏联“剑桥五人帮”的英国卧底行动等。 世界情报机构历史沿革：从古亚述国“国王之眼”，到法国路易十五“国王秘密”，再到军情五处和六处、中情局、克格勃，直至以色列摩萨德等组织。 谍战秘密技术更新换代：从密码棒到恩尼格玛密码机，加密技术愈发复杂；从热气球到侦察机，搜集手段不断升级；从人力到卫星，传递方式花样翻新等。 情报对人类战争的作用：在塞莫皮莱大战、乌
本书对20世纪90年代环境运动在西欧、美国和世界其他地区发展状况进行了综合分析。作者提出，西方环境运动正处在十字路口。发达工业社会中不断制度化的现存环境组织面临着更激进团体和地方性抗议者的挑战；尽管存在着日益增加的环境难题和经济与文化全球化的趋势，一种全球性环境运动的发展至多是初步性的。
It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope,exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrativeskill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound accountof the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider theRussian Revolution to be the most significant event of thetwentieth century. Distinguished scholar Orlando Figes presents apanorama of Russian society on the eve of that revolution, and thennarrates the story of how these social forces were violentlyerased. Within the broad stokes of war and revolution are miniaturehistories of individuals, in which Figes follows the main players'fortunes as they saw their hopes die and their world crash intoruins. Unlike previous accounts that trace the origins of therevolution to overreaching political forces and ideals, Figesargues that the failure of democracy in 1917 was deeply rooted inRussian culture and social history and that what had started as apeople's revolution contained the seeds of its degeneration intoviolence
?《大动量：什么控制了我们的世界》的内容从金融次贷危机到伊拉克战争，从宗教信仰差异带来的行为到流行文化的潮流裹挟，从媒体网络的科技飞跃到全球环保运动所遭遇的支持与抵制，作者的视线遍及当今世界发展的各个关键领域，深刻剖析了随着“速度”（组织效率和传播速度）和“质量”（组织和投入的规模、影响力）的高度发展，大动量是如何对人类施加着支配性的、却又难以被察觉的巨大影响。 ?《大动量：什么控制了我们的世界》包含作者马克罗德对丰富案例的大量独到分析，文笔生动、鞭辟入里，并冷静地提醒世人小心大动量可能为世界带来的毁灭性打击，诚恳地建议我们如何在生活中保持冷静和独立的头脑，以幸存和完胜于这个易被各种危险动量所笼罩的“疯狂”世界。
The most important, acclaimed, and galvanizing politicalbiography of our era--which began with The Path to Power--continuesin this national bestseller. In Means of Ascent Lyndon Johnson'salmost mythic personality is seen at its most nakedly ambitious.The culminating drama--the explosive heart of the book--is Caro'sillumination of one of the great political mysteries of thecentury, the "87 votes that changed history."
Written by one of the twentieth century’s most significantthinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to beBertrand Russell’s major work on political history. It traces themain causes of political change during a period of one hundredyears, which he argues were predominantly influenced by three majorelements – economic technique, political theory and certainsignificant individuals. In the witty, approachable style that hasmade Bertrand Russell’s works so revered, he explores in detail themajor forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century.
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A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, notGroucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons?It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxistphilosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the classstruggle, socialism. And there's a biography of "Charlie" Marxbesides. Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners isaccurate, understandable, and very, very funny.
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of PulitzerPrize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."sAge of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt'sfirst tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office atthe bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American peoplethat they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventionalwisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to averteconomic collapse. His first hundred days restored national morale,and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches torecovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realisticmeans, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescuecapitalism. The Coming of the New Deal, written with Schlesinger'scustomary verve, is a gripping account of critical years in thehistory of the republic.
In this the first book ever written about the CIA's Office of Technical Service, former director Robert Wallace (a real-life Q, straight out of the James Bond films) and internationally renowned intelligence historian H. Keith Melton offer an unprecedented look at the CIA's most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible. Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions- including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the current War on Terror-the authors show how the CIA carries out its missions employing amazingly inventive tools. Illustrated with images never before seen by the public-and featuring everything from micro cameras to wired kitties to exploding pancakes-Spycraft is both a fantastic encyclopedia of gadgetry and a revealing primer on the fundamentals of high-tech espionage.
Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s mostcompelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array oftopics with his many publications. But no single book hasencompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture , a collection of interviewsfrom the last three decades. In these twenty-eight interviews, Said addresses everything fromPalestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbringing under colonialrule to his politically active and often controversial adulthood,and reflects on Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Naipaul, Mahfouz, andRushdie, as well as on fellow critics Bloom, Derrida, and Foucault.The passion Said feels for literature, music, history, and politicsis powerfully conveyed in this indispensable complement to hisprolific life's work.
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of theYear National BestsellerWith a New AfterwordNational Book CriticsCircle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon , Slate , The Economist , The Washington Post , Cleveland Plain-Dealer The Dark Side is a dramatic,riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United Statesmade terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around theworld—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but alsohampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, JaneMayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players,namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretiveadviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a longheld agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never knownin U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections thatdefine the very essence of the American experiment.
For the first time,here is the full and fascination life story of the mos unlikely of celebrities,the soft-spoken economist who became the much-heralded Chairman of the Federal Reserve Boars.Justin,a former Fortune magazine staff writer,recounts the series of crisee-from the Crash of '87to2001's market mayhem-faced by Greenspan during his eventful four terms running the Fed.Relying on exclusive interviews with friends and colleagues,Martin also reconstructs Greenspan's hardscrabble childhood,years spent in the inner circle of controversial author Ayn Rand,his youthful days as a jazz clarinetist,and the intellectual and philosophical transfor mation that led to his position of awesome power.
In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W.Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian causefrom one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, whichoriginally appeared in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, London’s Al-Hayat,and the London Review of Books, take us from the Oslo Accordsthrough the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and present information andperspectives too rarely visible in America. Said is unyielding in his call for truth and justice. He insistson truth about Israel's role as occupier and its treatment of thePalestinians. He pleads for new avenues of communication betweenprogressive elements in Israel and Palestine. And he is equallyforceful in his condemnation of Arab failures and the need for realleadership in the Arab world.
Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the mostinfluential philosophers of the twentieth century, among thephilosophers who study his work we find considerable disagreementover what might seem to be basic issues: why is Heideggerimportant? What did his work do? This volume is an explicitresponse to these differences, and is unique in bringing togetherrepresentatives of many different approaches to Heidegger'sphilosophy. Topics covered include Heidegger's place in the'history of being', Heidegger and ethics, Heidegger and theology,and Heidegger and Nazi concepts of race. More generally, thecontributors also address their respective visions of the nature ofphilosophy and the presuppositions which guide their understandingof Heidegger.
