The ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformedAmerican military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilotand a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerialcombat; spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force's premierfighters, the F-15 and the F-16; and shaped the tactics that savedlives during the Vietnam War and the strategies that won the GulfWar. Many of America's best-known military and political leadersconsulted Boyd on matters of technology, strategy, andtheory. In The Mind of War, Grant T. Hammond offers the first completeportrait of John Boyd, his groundbreaking ideas, and his enduringlegacy. Based on extensive interviews with Boyd and those who knewhim as well as on a close analysis of Boyd's briefings, thisintellectual biography brings the work of an extraordinary thinkerto a broader public.

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。

Coming of age duringWorld War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and theCold War, these men -- FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur-- transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into aglobal superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace , shows how this generation not onlymade America great but largely succeeded in making it a force forgood.

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.

本书共有300多种各型战机的精要介绍，尤其注重其研发历史和作战史，配有战机三视图，及其动力、武器和性能等各种技术数据，还有各型衍生和改进型号的介绍，是战机百科图书类别里极具特点的图书。作为战机深度鉴赏类百科，全书内容丰富，编辑角度独特，值得军迷和专业人士收藏，也是案头重要的参考书。

"Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality, and embraced in his view the whole future of man." --Henry Adams

Long before Rosa Parks became famous for resisting Jim Crowlaws, she was engaged in advocating for social justice for blackwomen who were the victims of sexual violence at the hands of whitemen. Historian McGuire aims to rewrite the history of the civilrights movement by highlighting sexual violence in the broadercontext of racial injustice and the fight for freedom. Parks workedas an investigator for the NAACP branch office in Montgomery,Alabama, specializing in cases involving black women who had beensexually assaulted by white men––cases that often went untried andwere the political opposite of the allegations of black men rapingwhite women ending in summary lynching with or without trials.McGuire traces the history of several rape cases that triggeredvehement resistance by the NAACP and other groups, including the1975 trial of Joan Little, who killed a white jailer who sexuallyassaulted her. Despite the long tradition of dismissing chargesbrought by blacks against whites, several of the cases e

Your high-school history teachers never gave you a book likethis one! Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features outrageousand uncensored profiles of the men in the White House, completewith hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downrightwacko facts. You'll discover that George Washington spent a whopping 7 percent of his salary onbooze John Quincy Adams loved to skinny-dip in the Potomac River Warren G. Harding gambled with White House china when he ran lowon cash Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in Georgia And Richard Nixon sheesh, don't get us started on Nixon! Now with a new chapter on the winner of the 2008 presidentialelection, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents tackles all the toughquestions that other history books are afraid to answer: Are therereally secret tunnels underneath the White House? Whichpresidential daughter bared everything for Playboy? And what wasNancy Reagan thinking when she appeared on Diff'rent Strokes?American histor

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、乌尔姆之战

本书共有300多种各型战机的精要介绍，尤其注重其研发历史和作战史，配有战机三视图，及其动力、武器和性能等各种技术数据，还有各型衍生和改进型号的介绍，是战机百科图书类别里极具特点的图书。作为战机深度鉴赏类百科，全书内容丰富，编辑角度独特，值得军迷和专业人士收藏，也是案头重要的参考书。

简介:?本书在系统地阐述西夏王朝及其前身夏州政权所经历的三百四十余年?(公元881年—?1227年)的战争史实的墓础上，展示了战争演变的进程，体现了我国中世纪后期各民族?(主要在北方)间的错综复杂的关系。

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。

For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played acentral role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace as anadvisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national securityadvisors. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller recordswhat went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we aretoday. Here is a look at the peace process from a place at thenegotiation table, filled with behind-the-scenes strategy, colorfulanecdotes and equally colorful characters, and new interviews withpresidents, secretaries of state, and key Arab and Israelileaders. Honest, critical, and often controversial, Miller’s insider’saccount offers a brilliant new analysis of the problem ofArab-Israeli peace and how it still might be solved.

A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense ofliberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and howit can help our society chart a forward course. The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of fourdecades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by AlanWolfe, one of America’s leading scholars, hailed by one critic as“one of liberalism’s last and most loyal sons.” Wolfe mines thebedrock of the liberal tradition, explaining how Immanuel Kant,John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and other celebrated minds helpedshape liberalism’s central philosophy. Wolfe also examines thosewho have challenged liberalism since its inception, fromJean-Jacques Rousseau to modern conservatives, religiousfundamentalists, and evolutionary theorists such as RichardDawkins. Drawing on both the inspiration and insights of seminal workssuch as John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, Adam Smith’sTheory of Moral Sentiments, Kant’s essay “What is Enlightenment?,”and Mil