How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. With Power in Concert, Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the formation and maintenance of collective intentions, or joint commitments among states to address problems together. The key mechanism through which these intentions are sustained is face-to-face diplomacy, which keeps states' obligations to one another salient and helps them solve problems on a day-to-day basis.Mitzen argues that the origins of this practice lie in the Concert of Europe, an informal agreement among five European states in the wake of the Napoleonic wars to reduce the possibility of recurrence, which first institutionalized the practice of jointly managing the balance of power.?Through the Concert's many successes, she shows that the words and actions of state leaders in public forums contributed to collective self-restraint and a commitment to problem solving-and at a time when communication was considerably more difficult than it is today. Despite the Concert's eventual breakdown, the practice it introduced-of face to face diplomacy as a mode of joint problem solving-survived and is the basis of global governance today.

Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility?picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the Science of Logic. Rocio Zambrana transforms the revisionist tradition by distilling the theory of normativity that Hegel elaborates in the?Science of Logic?within the context of his signature treatment of negativity, unveiling how both features of his system of thought operate on his theory of intelligibility. ?Zambrana clarifies crucial features of Hegel's theory of normativity previously thought to be absent from the argument of the?Science of Logic-what she calls normative precariousness and normative ambivalence. She shows that Hegel's theory of determinacy views intelligibility as both precarious, the result of practices and institutions that gain and lose authority throughout history, and ambivalent, accommodating opposite meanings and valences even when enjoying normative authority. In this way, Zambrana shows that the Science of Logic provides the philosophical justification for the necessary historicity of intelligibility. Intervening in several recent developments in the study of Kant, Hegel, and German Idealism more broadly, this book provides a productive new understanding of the value of Hegel's systematic ambitions.

Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell-editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek-understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal social theorist.Caldwell begins by providing the necessary background for understanding Hayek's thought, tracing the emergence, in fin-de-sicle Vienna, of the Austrian school of economics-a distinctive analysis forged in the midst of contending schools of thought. In the second part of the book, Caldwell follows the path by which Hayek, beginning from the standard Austrian assumptions, gradually developed his unique perspective on not only economics but a broad range of social phenomena. In the third part, Caldwell offers both an assessment of Hayek's arguments and, in an epilogue, an insightful estimation of how Hayek's insights can help us to clarify and reexamine changes in the field of economics during the twentieth century.As Hayek's ideas matured, he became increasingly critical of developments within mainstream economics: his works grew increasingly contrarian and evolved in striking-and sometimes seemingly contradictory-ways. Caldwell is ideally suited to explain the complex evolution of Hayek's thought, and his analysis here is nothing short of brilliant, impressively situating Hayek in a broader intellectual context, unpacking the often difficult turns in his thinking, and showing how his economic ideas came to inform his ideas on the other social sciences.Hayek's Challenge will be received as one of the most important works published on this thinker in recent decades.

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation.Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "e;Laws"e; was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text."e;Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argument of the Laws step by step, and his vigorous defense of this dialogue's integrity in respect to the ideals of the Republic."e;-Cross Currents"e;The unique characteristics of this commentary on the Laws reflect the care and precision which were the marks of Professor Strauss's efforts to understand the complex thoughts of other men."e;-Allan D. Nelson, Canadian Journal of Political Science"e;Thorough and provocative, an important addition to Plato scholarship."e;-Library Journal"e;The major purpose of the commentary is to provide a reading of the dialogue which displays its structural arrangement and the continuity of the argument."e;-J. W. Dy, Bibliographical Bulletin of Philosophy"e;The reader of Strauss's book is indeed guided closely through the whole text."e;- M. J. Silverthorne, The Humanities Association ReviewLeo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago.

In Cte d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand name clothing, accessories, technology, and a robust nightlife. Such imitation, however, is not primarily meant to deceive-rather, as Sasha Newell argues in?The Modernity Bluff, it is an explicit performance so valued in Cte d'Ivoire it has become a matter of national pride.Called bluffeurs, these young urban men operate in a system of cultural economy where reputation is essential for financial success. That reputation is measured by familiarity with and access to the fashionable and expensive, which leads to a paradoxical state of affairs in which the wasting of wealth is essential to its accumulation. Using the consumption of Western goods to express their cultural mastery over Western taste, Newell argues, bluffeurs engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticityhighlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.

Almost fifty years after?Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo's?Uncivil Rights, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.While movements for teachers' rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways?they have become so, brought about both by teachers who have come to see civil rights efforts as detracting from or competing with their own goals and by civil rights activists whose aims have de-professionalized the role of the educator. Focusing in particular on unionized teachers, Perrillo finds a new vantage point from which to examine the relationship between school and community, showing how in this struggle, educators, activists, and especially our students have lost out.?

Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education's value and purpose within the larger society. Rarely have these separate approaches been brought into the same conversation. Education, Justice, and Democracy does just that, offering an intensive discussion by highly respected scholars across empirical and philosophical disciplines.?The contributors explore how the institutions and practices of education can support democracy, by creating the conditions for equal citizenship and egalitarian empowerment, and how they can advance justice, by securing social mobility and cultivating the talents and interests of every individual. Then the authors evaluate constraints on achieving the goals of democracy and justice in the educational arena and identify strategies that we can employ to work through or around those constraints. More than a thorough compendium on a timely and contested topic, Education, Justice, and Democracy exhibits an entirely new, more deeply composed way of thinking about education as a whole and its importance to a good society.

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up-in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood's vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted "e;good schools"e; as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara critically examines in Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities.?Focusing on Philadelphia's Center City Schools Initiative, she shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs. Navigating complex ethical terrain, she balances the successes of such policies in strengthening urban schools and communities against the inherent social injustices they propagate-the further marginalization and disempowerment of lowerclass families. By asking what happens when affluent parents become "e;valued customers,"e; Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities uncovers a problematic relationship between public institutions and private markets, where the former are used to leverage the latter to effect urban transformations.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "e;war on women,"e; while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually undermined women's rights. The women of the Senate wielded particular power, planning press conferences, appearing on political programs, and taking to the Senate floor over gender-related issues such as workplace equality and reproductive rights.The first book to examine the impact of gender differences in the Senate, Women in the Club is an eye-opening exploration of how women are influencing policy and politics in this erstwhile male bastion of power. Gender, Michele L. Swers shows, is a fundamental factor for women in the Senate, interacting with both party affiliation and individual ideology to shape priorities on policy. Women, for example, are more active proponents of social welfare and women's rights. But the effects of gender extend beyond mere policy preferences. Senators also develop their priorities with an eye to managing voter expectations about their expertise and advancing their party's position on a given issue. The election of women in increasing numbers has also coincided with the evolution of the Senate as a highly partisan institution. The stark differences between the parties on issues pertaining to gender have meant that Democratic and Republican senators often assume very different roles as they reconcile their policy views on gender issues with the desire to act as members of partisan teams championing or defending their party's record in an effort to reach various groups of voters.

价值 quan书共3个部分10个章节，介绍了张磊的个人历程、他所坚持的投资理念和方法以及他对价值投资者自我修养的思考，还介绍了他对具有伟大格局观的创业者、创业组织，以及对人才、教育、科学观的理解。书中包含大量珍贵资料，不仅有首次提出的7大高瓴公式，详细拆解的10多个投资案例，还有11张精致手绘彩插和19张珍贵照片。 高瓴创始人兼首席执行官张磊的力作，沉淀15年，张磊的投资思想首度quan面公开，50+位国内外大咖罕见同框共同力荐。 财富是认知的变现 投资是一场反人性的游戏。想要通过投资成功来积累财富，核心在于改变自己的认知。投资家的思维方式与心性修养与常人大有不同，如果你不能掌握同样的投资认知体系，那么即便你拥有大量的投资知识，也只是“有知识的小白”，不面沦为“韭菜”。本书对核心投资认知原则条分缕析，明确点出12个认知误区与12个破解之道，帮助读者有效避开投资中的陷阱，在学会赚钱之前，先学会如何确保不亏钱。 创新性设计12篇老子与巴菲特的跨时空对话，穿插于12章之中，老子与巴菲特、芒格虽然相差2500岁，但他们的智慧却高度相通，毫无时空隔膜，作者以趣味性的对话，深入浅出，让每个专业与非专业投资者轻松领悟到核心投资哲学。 上海老牌百亿私募基金重阳投资合伙人舒泰峰投资专著，首度以跨界视角揭示私募基金重阳投资的投资认知体系。 投资中zui简单的事 高毅资产董事长邱国鹭从多年投资的自身经验出发，剖析了“便宜才是硬道理”“定价权是核心竞争力”“人弃我取，逆向投资”“投资应该数月亮，胜而后求战”等简单易行的投资原则，阐明了“对于大多数人而言，只有价值投资才是真正可学、可用、可掌握的”这一观点，分享了易于普通投资者学习、操作的投资方法。 在对“投资中zui简单的事”娓娓道来的过程中，作者用生动晓畅的语言分享了自己投资生涯中的丰富投资实例，使本书兼具了易读性与实操性。 邱国鹭具有20年基金业投资管理经验，曾任南方基金管理有限公司投资总监和投委会主席、普林瑟斯资本管理公司基金经理、奥泰尔领航者对冲基金合伙人、美国韦奇资本管理公司合伙人等职，曾获评《中国基金报》英华奖之“中国基金业20年zui佳基金经理”等多个奖项。 投资中不简单的事 投资中变与不变的是什么？如何把对市场状态的识别应用于投资实践？如何在资本市场中屏蔽噪音，做出正确的决策？如何用很“笨”的基本面投资逻辑，挣“守正出奇”之大财？ 继《投资中zui简单的事》后，高毅资产诚意推出又一价值投资力作《投资中不简单的事》。 《投资中不简单的事》精选高毅资产基金经理内部交流实录，26篇重磅文章深度揭秘，20万字投资实录quan新披露，quan面展示基金经理面对人性的恐惧与贪婪、面对市场不确定性时的真实想法与应对策略；揭示优质公司的成长路径和行业的内在发展规律，给出在中国坚守价值投资的实操性建议。 共同基金常识 指数基金教父约翰·博格先生的心血力作，历经市场十年洗礼之后的升级版，堪称投资界的经典书。在如今越发复杂的市场环境中，这本著作恰如海中灯塔，一方面传递着zui为简单、有效、持久的投资策略，另一方面也考察着共同基金业的行业法则和道德底线。 在本书中，约翰·博格先生将其一生在投资领域中沉淀的精华悉数呈现，用大量翔实的数据和事实诠释了简单和常识必然会胜过代价高昂且复杂的投资方法；低成本和广泛分散化的投资组合，仍然是以zui低的成本和风险实现财富累计的zui优选择，并且，这一投资的业绩也将一直优于昂贵的主动管理型基金。 名家名译，相映得彰。这部超越时间的投资圣经欣逢著名金融学家巴曙松先生领衔翻译，经典著作得遇权威解读，为国内读者呈现zui贴近原著的中文译本。 商界大咖专文作序。高瓴资本创始人兼首席执行官张磊、中国人民保险集团副董事长缪建民、耶鲁大学首席投资官大卫 ? 斯文森专文作序推荐 查理·芒格的投资思想 随着芒格在伯克希尔哈撒韦的功勋逐渐为人所知，关于芒格的文献开始变得烟波浩淼起来。这种情况虽然丰富了人们对于芒格的理解，但也加深了学习芒格的门槛难度。基于对查理·芒格的多年研究，本书作者戴维·克拉克力透纸背地将芒格的核心思想体系凝练为100余个概念。围绕这些概念，克拉克不但筛选出了芒格尤其能体现其思想精髓的经典言论，而且还对这些言论进行了精湛的诠释。可以说，《查理·芒格的投资思想》一书用简洁直接的方式为读者扫清了学习芒格的障碍，它既是初学者掌握芒格投资思想的入门利器，也是资深投资者随时反复体悟芒格投资思想的常备读物。 中国知名金融学家巴曙松 领衔翻译！高毅资产董事长邱国鹭、FT中文网财经版主编徐瑾、《证券市场红周刊》执行主编谢长艳、雪球论坛大V“闲来一坐s话投资”强烈推荐！ 跳着踢踏舞去上班 一部让巴菲特在股东大会上大跳踢踏舞的书。一部比尔·盖茨号召所有人逐字逐句精读的书。一部媲美《穷查理宝典》的巴菲特箴言录。 当巴菲特表示将要授权一部个人传记时，投资界人士几乎一致认为巴菲特致股东的信的编辑卡萝尔·卢米斯是不二人选。这对“黄金搭档”的合作时间长达50年。本书形式上以时间为线索，用巴菲特近10万的亲笔文字为轴，系统地剖析了通货膨胀、利率、企业利润、交易费用等要素对于股票投资的影响，厘清股票、股票指数期货、金融衍生品、zhaiquan、黄金等投资品种的优劣，提供了分析整个股市的完整框架。在这些体现思想精髓的文字之间，穿插多篇揭秘巴菲特重要投资事件的深度报道。深陷丑闻的美国运通、天赐良机的房地美、命悬一线的所罗门、猖狂一时的长期资本管理……它们完美地充当了诠释巴菲特投资哲学的实际案例。 quan球投资界公认的解读巴菲特的书。微软创始人比尔·盖茨、高毅资产董事长邱国鹭、东方港湾董事长但斌 倾情推荐！ 格林斯潘传 一段重现害羞少年逆袭为quan球经济沙皇的个人传奇历程；一部诠释quan球金融体系内在变迁逻辑和发展过程的宏大金融史；一场揭秘经济政策背后利益纠葛及风云故事的政治权谋剧；一本针对金融危机形成脉络与历史教训的反思录。 马拉比耗时5年，深入格林斯潘的成长过程，挖掘其个性成因，梳理政治和金融危机的形成过程，详细辨析了格林斯潘在做决策时所面临的限制性条件。这对于后来者具有重要的实践指导意义。 quan球经济沙皇的个人传奇历程。金融时报·麦肯锡年度zui佳商业图书，《富可敌国》作者塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比又一部扛鼎之作。中国知名金融学家巴曙松领衔翻译，中国金融博物馆理事长王巍倾情作序。 征服市场的人 quan方位还原 “量化投资之父”的投资理念！揭秘如何领导一群极客打造华尔街zui赚钱的机器！ 讲述作为“跨界狂魔”“斜杠大佬”是一种怎样的体验！ 首次披露西蒙斯及其神秘团队的一手资料。作者格雷戈里·祖克曼深入以低调和神秘著称的文艺复兴科技公司及其创始人西蒙斯，对30多位现任和前任雇员进行400多次采访，与西蒙斯的朋友、家人和本人进行数十小时的直接对谈，凭借精彩的笔触使文艺复兴科技公司的背后故事真实地跃然纸上。 揭晓“量化投资之父”“奇袭华尔街的数学天才”西蒙斯是如何带领大奖章基金在30年间取得66.1%的年平均回报率，连续27年业绩远超巴菲特，规模远超达利欧的。 通往财富自由之路 阿什文? B. 查布拉认为，我们真正需要的是一个框架，把投资策略的重点从投资组合和市场转移到真正重要的个人目标上，比如防范意外的金融危机、支付教育或退休费用、资助慈善事业和创业。 在本书中，查布拉回答了为什么投资策略的主要焦点是目标，而不是市场，并提供了一个实用的、创新的框架，让我们做出更明智的选择，使我们的目标与投资策略一致，以及践行这一框架的7个步骤；简化了我们对主要资产类别的理解，为确定优先级和量化财务目标制定了简明的路线图，让我们走上更加自信和充实的财富自由之路。 这本书由诺贝尔经济学奖得主埃里克·马斯金、哈里·马科维茨，投资经典《漫步华尔街》作者伯顿·马尔基尔，畅销书《高盛帝国》作者查尔斯·埃利斯，詹姆斯?西蒙斯，以及知名国际机构 中国业务负责人黄凡等多位知名投资大咖联袂力荐！

这是一段扣人心弦的冒险历程，这是一个充满勇气和胆量的故事，这是一部经过全面修订和更新的关于飞虎队的权威史著。作者广泛参考了美、日两国的历史档案，并采用了大量当事人的回忆录和访谈材料，拨环绕在飞虎队周围的层层历史迷雾，力求还原真实的历史场景和历史人物的本来面目。为了使这部著作与时俱，作者又根据美国、英国和日本学者的*研究成果行了全面修订。包括埃里克·希林和特克斯·希尔在内的美国志愿航空队老兵提供了很多新材料，加上新近发现的日本和新西兰飞行员的回忆录，使得本书呈现的历史面貌更加丰满。 

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《古今中外——透析软装设计六大要素》将通过丰富的案例向读者分析室内软装设计的六大要素：元素搭配、家居配置、灯具及灯光效果、布艺软装饰、装饰艺术品、色彩搭配。同时，将众多案例分为四种风格：古典豪宅、现代豪宅、中式工装、西式工装。豪宅主要收录新古典与现代奢华两大风格的住宅类作品，工装主要收录中式风格与西式风格的酒店、办公、会所、餐饮空间等作品，均以室内软装设计为焦点，图文并茂，以软装实景作品及对软装设计的独特解读向广大读者展示和提供当前优秀的软装设计作品及极具参考性的设计理念、灵感等，进而体现“软装”在不同空间中的设计思路及表现手法的差异。

　　将近代世界景观规划项目分为住宅庭园、商业办公、滨水生态、校园规划、规划设计、公园绿地、广场空间、休闲娱乐、旅游度假、交通运输十个类别，展现了近年国际景观设计师的新锐作品。作为《全球*10×100景观》系列的延续，本书传承了前三本的经典风格，图片量众多、印刷精美、项目新颖。

好望角系列:我们看见的不仅是一个海角，而是一个新的世界。 ·犹太人三千年简史（豆瓣评分8.9，畅销海外二十年，这个命运多舛的民族，为什么如此人才辈出？） ·独霸中东：以色列的军事强国密码：谁教美国人暗杀？以色列！强敌环伺下的弹丸小国何以成为军工强国？一份来自前线的调研报告，一部有血有肉的以色列史。 ·无规则游戏：阿富汗屡被中断的历史（ 走进《追风筝的人》背后“真实的阿富汗”，洞悉阿富汗辉煌的历史、混乱的当下，共望仍遥不可及的平静未来。罗振宇盛情推荐。） ·征服与革命中的阿拉伯人：1516年至今（媲美《冰与火之歌》的中东权力游戏，破解阿拉伯世界诸多困境的历史成因。罗振宇盛情推荐。） ·以色列：一个民族的重生(《新周刊》、《晶报·深港书评》“2018十大非虚构类好书”，2016美国国家犹太图书奖，生动再现以色列跌宕起伏的建国历史,深刻揭示以色列民族深邃的灵魂。罗振宇盛情推荐。）

《怎么处事不吃亏，怎么沟通不伤人》（套装共12册）包括了《这些年，我吃的都是不好意思的亏》《三年学说话，一辈子学闭嘴》《这些年，我吃的都是急性子的亏》《生活需要分寸感》《群处守嘴，独处守心》《不伤人是一种修养，不被伤是一种气场》《会说话是修养，管住嘴是教养》《沟通力就是思维力》《总要学会面对这个复杂的世界》《高敏感高天赋》《情感冷暴力》《共情力》。 《怎么处事不吃亏，怎么沟通不伤人》（12册套装）是一套专为普通人打造的处世指南，用12本书解答两大难题：?如何守住底线不被利用?，?如何说话既真诚又有分寸。《怎么处事不吃亏，怎么沟通不伤人》（12册套装）用真实案例教你识别生活中常见的“道德绑架”，不管你是面对陌生人难以开口的社交i人，还是亲密关系障碍者，本套书都能教你如何应对生活中存在的社交困境，让你不再为社交产生负面情绪。

From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state's formation and image since its founding. Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of those who have both studied and lived the racial experience in Arkansas.

【内容简介】 本卷收录了两个村庄的调查报告：一是河北省衡水市深州市东安庄乡清辉头村，二是河北省保定市容城县南张镇北张村。两份报告均从村庄由来、自然、经济、社会、文化、治理六方面，重点对村庄的传统形态进行深描，兼涉其历史变迁与现状，全景式展现了相应地区乡村社会的生产、生活与组织形态，为深入了解黄河区域村户社会的底色与特质提供了翔实的一手资料。两篇报告末尾均附有调查小记与调查日记，着重记录驻村期间的见闻，内容自选，没有框架束缚，灵活而真实地反映了当下乡村的状况。

Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight chronicles the experiences of a well-educated and articulate Confederate officer from Arkansas who witnessed the full evolution of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Department and western theater. Daniel Harris Reynolds, a community leader with a thriving law practice in Chicot County, entered service in 1861 as a captain in command of Company A of the First Arkansas Mounted Rifles. Reynolds saw action at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge before the regiment was dismounted and transferred to the Army of Tennessee, the primary Confederate force in the western theater. As Reynolds fought through the battles of Chickamauga, Atlanta, Nashville, and Bentonville, he consistently kept a diary in which he described the harsh realities of battle, the shifting fortunes of war, and the personal and political conflicts that characterized and sometimes divided the soldiers. The result is a significant testimonial offering valuable insights into the nature of command from the company to brigade levels, expressed by a committed Southerner coming to grips with the realities of defeat and the ultimate demoralization of surrender.

本书截取汉朝桓、灵、献三帝执政的七十多年，全景式地展示了大汉帝国走向衰亡的全过程。作者史学功底深厚，基于各类史书及史料，以亦雅亦俗、亦庄亦谐的写作方式，记录了东汉王朝衰落下来的历史过程，并对其间的关键人物和重大历史事件均有很到位的剖析，探索导致这个强大王朝走向末路的错综复杂的原因。一幕幕帝国王朝的兴衰成败、一个个历史人物的功过是非、一场场惊心动魄的历史事件，为后人理解政治兴替的潜规则提供了丰富而鲜活的资料。