他不是魔鬼的代言人，但魔鬼也攔不住他；他不過是個無名小卒，但他卻是天生贏家。
宮廷就是他的競技場，罪惡是力量的來源；然而只要走錯一小步，就有可能萬劫不復…
亨利八世的宮廷猶如一個殘忍無情的競技場，只有一個人敢以自己的生命為賭注，以博取國王的寵愛，進而步步高升，登上權力的顛峰。
一五二○年代的英格蘭，災禍一觸即發。英王亨利八世與凱瑟琳王后結褵已十數年，但膝下始終沒有男性繼承人。亨利八世開始擔心，英格蘭在未來會為了繼承權問題而引發內戰。此時，宮廷內出現一位年輕女子，工於心計的她，把亨利八世迷得神魂顛倒。樞機主教沃爾西為了國王的離婚案費盡心思，百般週旋，卻始終無法突破僵局，最後遭到罷黜、含恨而終。出身寒微的克倫威爾趁勢而起，他足智多謀、鐵石心腸、不擇手段，精力旺盛得像魔鬼。
然而，亨利八世卻是個生性反覆無常的君王。在那差之毫釐，失之千里，一小步錯就可能人頭落地的時代，克倫威爾該如何在腥風血雨的宮廷中求生？

In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the book generates an astonishing wealth of
original and fascinating insights on all major aspects of humankind's remarkable journey through the ages, engaging a wide range of disciplines.

《中国经济史考证》分为上卷（1952年）、下卷（1953年），作为“东洋文库论丛”第三十四种出版，收录论文58篇，上卷21篇，附录《中国古田制研究》1篇；下卷37篇，附录论文5篇，合计收录64篇论文。这些论文研究的年代，上至周景王，下至清末，基本涵盖有文献资料记载的中国古代经济史，具体研究论题主要集中在汉、唐、宋、清四朝，内容涉及汉代的财政制度，唐宋的庄园组织、都市和草市的发展，宋代的货币、商业、户口，清代的货币、财政、盐法、定期市等等。

《經濟學人》譽為「薩依德的繼承者」
《外交政策》評為「全球百大思想家」
2012年獲選《經濟學人》年度最佳圖書
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何謂亞洲的價值？
亞洲各國如何從西方帝國的廢墟中重生？
亞洲各地富有獨立思考能力的思想家、知識份子，試圖擺脫傳統的框架，尋求抑制西方國家對亞洲大陸日漸增長的支配欲望、尋找亞洲重生的道路，進而重塑亞洲。
潘卡吉‧米什拉的《從帝國廢墟中崛起：從梁啟超到泰戈爾，喚醒亞洲與改變世界》從世紀初的日俄戰爭開始談起，述及日本將霸權一舉伸向韓國及太平洋部份地區，因其打敗強大的俄羅斯帝國，由此次的空前勝利對亞洲國家各地的知識份子產生深遠的影響。例如中國的梁啟超、孫中山，印度諾貝爾文學獎得主泰戈爾，伊斯蘭之父賈邁勒丁‧阿富汗尼，他們都想像當時的日本一樣，開始東方國家政治與經濟的改革。然而本書作者潘卡吉‧米什拉卻以不同的角度，呈現給讀者亞洲歷史文化的另一面向：這些思想家的見聞，建構了亞洲現代哲學的思想理論，並向大眾展現他們共同嚮往亞洲擁有更為宏遠的目標，但其實現在的亞洲國家卻是盲目採用西方的模式，盲目跟隨西方政治、經濟思想，導致亞洲喪失本身的文化，同時更承襲西方國家的惡習。
《從帝國廢墟中崛起》結合了東方的政治思想，集結印度、中國及阿拉伯的精神，是一本不容忽視的預言式作品。
在西方人眼中，昂揚大步向外擴張的維多利亞時期，在亞洲人眼中卻是場浩劫。外國軍人和商人瓦解原是文明核心的大帝國。隨著英國人以船堅炮利拉下蒙兀兒帝國的末代皇帝、燒掉北京圓明園、羞辱奧圖曼土耳其帝國的破產統治者，因此，探索救亡圖存之道是亞洲國家的當務之急。
潘卡吉‧米什拉以引人入勝、趣味橫生的筆觸，講述亞洲大陸上一群有智之士如何迎接西方挑戰。他們不斷地質問、掙扎、深感痛苦，既痛恨西方，又體認到得與敵人正面交鋒及向敵人學習，亞洲才有復興可言。經過許多挫敗和誤入歧途，一連串強有力、彼此矛盾且最終勢不可擋的觀念誕生，成為如今從中國共產黨到凱達組織，從印度民族主義到穆斯林兄弟會的種種勢力背後之動力根源。
米什拉透過遊歷歐亞各地的記者、詩人、激進份子、克里斯瑪型領袖的眼睛，引領讀者重新審視過去兩百年的歷史。這些思想家坐在當時似乎注定會被列強永久瓜分的舊帝國的廢墟之中，構思出反過來將使新帝國注定走向滅亡的觀念，且這些觀念還成為支撐二十一世紀亞洲大國的支柱。
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米什拉以敏銳、博學又有趣的態度呈現亞洲思想家如何回應西方逐漸衰頹的霸權，這位著名的當代印度知識份子是「薩伊德的繼承者」。
──《經濟學人》
米什拉反轉了長期由西方角度看東方的視角，呈現了世界上大多數民眾──從土耳其到中國──所感受認同的現代歷史。
──罕・帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk，諾貝爾文學獎得主，土耳其文學大師）
一本非常棒且突破創新的著作。這不只是一部卓越的亞洲史，更是一部為亞洲人所寫的生動歷史。
──莫欣・哈密（Mohsin Hamid，美國小說家，貝蒂特拉斯克獎得主）
《從帝國廢墟中崛起》以極具說服力的言辭，描繪一群亞洲最有教養、最有洞見的知識份子令人好奇且複雜之思想歷程。
──茱莉亞・洛弗爾（Julia Lovell，英國歷史學家，《鴉片戰爭》作者）
富有深入的研究及令人印象深刻的原創性……任何想了解今日我們處在怎麼樣的環境的人，都應該將這本具洞察力又令人不安的書放在必讀書單上。
──約翰・格雷（John Gray，《獨立報》專欄作家）
繼薩依德的經典著作《東方主義》後，《從帝國廢墟中崛起》提供另一種令人振奮的現代歷史觀點。米什拉相當博學……是善於抓住讀者目光的敘事者。
──汪暉（北京清華大學思想史教授）
米什拉機敏且幽默地結合被忽略的歷史材料，傳達出「二十世紀最重要的發展乃是亞洲的知識覺醒和政治覺醒」的重要主張。
──哈里‧昆茲魯（Hari Kunzru，《紐約時報》專欄作家）

At a time when Internet use is closely tracked and social networking sites supply data for targeted advertising, Lars Heide presents the first academic study of the invention that fueled today's information revolution: the punched card. Early punched cards helped to process the United States census in 1890. They soon proved useful in calculating invoices and issuing pay slips. As demand for more sophisticated systems and reading machines increased in both the United States and Europe, punched cards served ever-larger data-processing purposes. Insurance companies, public utilities, businesses, and governments all used them to keep detailed records of their customers, competitors, employees, citizens, and enemies. The United States used punched-card registers in the late 1930s to pay roughly 21 million Americans their Social Security pensions, Vichy France used similar technologies in an attempt to mobilize an army against the occupying German forces, and the Germans in 1941 developed several punched-card registers to make the war effort-and surveillance of minorities-more effective. Heide's analysis of these three major punched-card systems, as well as the impact of the invention on Great Britain, illustrates how different cultures collected personal and financial data and how they adapted to new technologies. This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies.

Masterfully combining his understanding of business and American history, Harvard Business School professor Richard S.Tedlow illuminates the professional and personal lives of these nineteenth- and twentieth- century titans, men with penetrating insight whose need to fulfill their destiny outweighed their fear of failure.

"Computer: A History of the Information Machine "traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers.
This third edition provides updated analysis on software and computer networking, including new material on the programming profession, social networking, and mobile computing. It expands its focus on the IT industry with fresh discussion on the rise of Google and Facebook as well as how powerful applications are changing the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. "Computer" is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. Through comprehensive history and accessible writing, "Computer" is perfect for courses on computer history, technology history, and information and society, as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science, communication, sociology, and management.

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.”
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end.
What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives?
Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything, from how an actress portrays a role to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory, but infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander.
Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.

Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And why is this change recent--or is it? James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the United States, applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Scores of problems arose: fatal train wrecks, misplacement of freight cars for months at a time, loss of shipments, inability to maintain high rates of inventory turnover. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information: "the Control Revolution." Between the 1840s and the 1920s came most of the important information-processing and communication technologies still in use today: telegraphy, modern bureaucracy. rotary power printing, the postage stamp, paper money, typewriter, telephone, punch-card processing, motion pictures, radio, and television. Beniger shows that more recent developments in microprocessors, computers, and telecommunications are only a smooth continuation of this "Control Revolution." Along the way he touches on many fascinating topics: why breakfast was invented, how trademarks came to be worth more than the companies that own them, why some employees wear uniforms, and whether time zones will always be necessary. The book is impressive not only for the breadth of its scholarship but also for the subtlety and force of its argument. It will be welcomed by sociologists, economists, historians of science and technology, and all curious in general.

The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to talk about the state of science in Britain and the world at large. Inspired by the great 17th century scientific reformer and political figure Francis Bacon—another former student of Cambridge—the Philosophical Breakfast Club plotted to bring about a new scientific revolution. And to a remarkable extent, they succeeded, even in ways they never intended.
Historian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyder exposes the political passions, religious impulses, friendships, rivalries, and love of knowledge—and power—that drove these extraordinary men. Whewell (who not only invented the word “scientist,” but also founded the fields of crystallography, mathematical economics, and the science of tides), Babbage (a mathematical genius who invented the modern computer), Herschel (who mapped the skies of the Southern Hemisphere and contributed to the invention of photography), and Jones (a curate who shaped the science of economics) were at the vanguard of the modernization of science.
This absorbing narrative of people, science and ideas chronicles the intellectual revolution inaugurated by these men, one that continues to mold our understanding of the world around us and of our place within it. Drawing upon the voluminous correspondence between the four men over the fifty years of their work, Laura J. Snyder shows how friendship worked to spur the men on to greater accomplishments, and how it enabled them to transform science and help create the modern world.

First published in 1909, The Great Illusion sets out to answer one of the greatest questions in human history: Why is there war? Specifically, Angell wishes to discuss why there is war between the countries of Europe, which seem to always be at one another's throats. Angell refutes the belief that military power results in greater wealth and instead proposes that advanced economies based on trade and contract law can only generate value in the absence of military upset. War destroys any wealth that conquerors may have wanted to obtain, making the whole enterprise pointless. A deep understanding of this would, then, end the need for war. Students of history, political science, and peace studies will find much to ponder and much to argue with in this classic text. British journalist and politician SIR RALPH NORMAN ANGELL (1872-1967) was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism and a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union. Knighted in 1931, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. From 1905 to 1912, he was the Paris editor for the Daily Mail, and served as a Labour MP from 1929 to 1931. He is also the author of Peace Theories and the Balkan War and The Fruits of Victory.

本書為宋人日記體著述合編。主要分為三類：一是官員于從政時所撰，其所記雖是友朋交往吟誦等私人事務，但有關朝廷政事佔有重要甚至是主要篇幅。二是行程日錄，主要為兩小類，其一是奉命出使外國者所記行程、外國政治、軍事、經濟、風土人情以及外交事務等，其二是有的官員為宦各地時所作的旅途日記。三是一些家居日記、讀書日記等。宋人日記往往是著者親歷親聞之第一手史料，多有可“補正史之缺”者，對研究宋代政治、外交以及文人交遊、各地風俗等方面都具有很高的史料價值。

《圣武记》是魏源关于清代历史的一部重要专著。共14卷，前10卷以纪事本末体记述清王朝建立至道光年间的军事历史；后4卷《武功余记》为作者对有关军事问题的论述。卷4中《乾隆戡定回疆记》、《乾隆绥服西属国记》、《乾隆新疆后事记》、《道光重定回疆记》、《道光回疆善后记》等篇，记载清军平定新疆大小和卓木之乱，绥服哈萨克、布鲁特、敖罕、巴达克山等地区，镇压乌什、昌吉人民起事，平定张格尔之乱，抗击浩罕安集延人入侵等一系列历史事件。