Book De*ion "A spectre is hauntingEurope - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's mostimportant documents, a work of such magnitude that it has foreverchanged not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the courseof human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written inFriedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared theearth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, itquickly became the credo of the poor and oppressed who longed for asociety "in which the free development of each is the condition forthe free development of all." The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marx's morecomprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influentialeconomic, political, social, and literary theories. But theManifesto is most valuable as an historical document, one that ledto the greatest political upheaveals of the nineteenth andtwentieth centuries and to the establishment of the Communistgovernments that until recently ruled half the globe. This Bantam Classic edi
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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。
In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will. Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contract is not only one of the great defences of civil society, it is also unflinching in its study of the darker side of political systems.
?《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。
