In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to their empire, while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the challenges of governing Europe s second largest state. In the decades before and after its dissolution, some observers belittled the Habsburg Empire as a dysfunctional patchwork of hostile ethnic groups and an anachronistic imperial relic. Judson examines their motives and explains just how wrong these rearguard critics were.
Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads, along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule, as citizens learned to use the empire s administrative machinery to their local advantage. Nationalists developed distinctive ideas about cultural difference in the context of imperial institutions, yet all of them claimed the Habsburg state as their empire.
The empire s creative solutions to governing its many lands and peoples as well as the intractable problems it could not solve left an enduring imprint on its successor states in Central Europe. Its lessons remain no less important today."

这是一本关于京东方的再创业史。记录了京东方在一个全球高技术工业中的史诗般崛起。通过讲述这个真实的故事——真实的团队在真实的世界里创造出来的真实业绩——解释了中国经济发展的动力。
20年来，京东方从一家岌岌可危的老牌国企发展成为领军中国工业的龙头企业，并在全球半导体显示工业中异军突起，历经国企改制的脱胎重生和技术替代与市场替代的严酷洗礼，数度破釜沉舟实现颠覆式创新和跨越式发展，爆发出令世人瞠目的创造力。京东方独立自主、创新自强，敢于走自己的路，是中国工业精神的最佳写照。

一部填补中国科学文明空白的奇书！
一部记载晚清先贤科学革命的通俗史！
中国科幻领军者 刘慈欣、韩松、姚海军 盛情推荐
最危机的年代，最大胆的幻想，最激情的革命，一群“不靠谱”却又让人敬重的科学先驱，曾创造了一个奇异的“科幻中国”。
武田雅哉教授以日本学者独有的细致入微，选录两百余幅图片，纤毫毕现地展现了谭嗣同、梁启超、蔡元培、鲁迅、吴趼人、包天笑等人种种奇异的科学幻想与科学实践，带我们重返那被历史遗忘了的“飞翔时代”。
垂暮文明一次短暂的返老还童，一个我们不知道的大清帝国，一段被遗忘的飞翔的梦想，像童话一样美妙，像科幻一般神奇。很难相信这一切真的发生过，本书让这段不可思议的历史再次鲜活如初。
——科幻作家 刘慈欣
《飞翔吧，大清帝国》是百前中国人对国家和世界的想象，的的确确是一部奇书，补缺了我们文明的一段空白。我觉得不仅是热爱幻想的人们要看，而且每个中国人都应该看看，我们中国的历史并不仅仅是我们以为的那样，我们中国人的大脑也并不是我们感觉到的那样。
——科幻作家 韩松
别样的视角、独到的观点，打开这本书，便会被一种一流科幻小说才有的惊异感俘获。一本值得品读的好书！
——《科幻世界》主编 世界华人科幻协会秘书长 姚海军

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public.
 
Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and people’s changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizens—now aware of wars, revolutions, crime, disasters, scandals, and other events—were poised to emerge as actors in the great events unfolding around them.

Taking up where the volume "Early Jazz" left off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social life, he assesses the distinctive sounds of great bandleaders like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman, instrumentalists such as Art Tatum, Cab Calloway and Pee Wee Russell, and such vocalists as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.

During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create dreams for a depression generation. This book explores that world, taking a look into the musical and racial integration. Long before organized baseball or the armed forces experienced racial integration, the fan culture that surrounded these big bands had broken down many barriers that separated people from different racial backgrounds. The author aims to show how a dance subculture forged in the late 1920s and early 1930s, became a music genre that symbolized American society. The book tells the story of swing's rapid rise and the music and culture that bolstered a nation during one of its lowest periods.

This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written especially for this book by some of the world's leading mathematicians, that introduce basic mathematical tools and vocabulary; trace the development of modern mathematics; explain essential terms and concepts; examine core ideas in major areas of mathematics; describe the achievements of scores of famous mathematicians; explore the impact of mathematics on other disciplines such as biology, finance, and music--and much, much more.
Unparalleled in its depth of coverage, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics surveys the most active and exciting branches of pure mathematics, providing the context and broad perspective that are vital at a time of increasing specialization in the field. Packed with information and presented in an accessible style, this is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics as well as for researchers and scholars seeking to understand areas outside their specialties.
* Features nearly 200 entries, organized thematically and written by an international team of distinguished contributors
* Presents major ideas and branches of pure mathematics in a clear, accessible style
* Defines and explains important mathematical concepts, methods, theorems, and open problems
* Introduces the language of mathematics and the goals of mathematical research
* Covers number theory, algebra, analysis, geometry, logic, probability, and more
* Traces the history and development of modern mathematics
* Profiles more than ninety-five mathematicians who influenced those working today
* Explores the influence of mathematics on other disciplines
* Includes bibliographies, cross-references, and a comprehensive index

探索文体的时代，其思想如何？围绕同一事件各種媒体的叙述，广告・問答・法律等の諸文类，不仅名家名文，甚至演説、朗读等都广泛收录。检证以传统的延续、展開、变化来应对新时代的“文体之思想”。