The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This same state of society has, moreover, engendered amongst them a multitude of feelings and opinions which were unknown amongst the elder aristocratic communities of Europe: it has destroyed or modified all the relations which before existed, and established others of a novel kind. The—aspect of civil society has been no less affected by these changes than that of the political world. The former subject has been treated of in the work on the Democracy of America, which I published five years ago; to examine the latter is the object of the present book; but these two parts complete each other, and form one and the same work. I must at once warn the reader against an error which would be extremely prejudicial to me. When he finds that I attribute so many different consequences to the principle of equality, he may thence infer that I consider that principle to be the sole cause of all that takes place in the present age: but this would be to impute to me a very narrow view. A multitude of opinions, feelings, and propensities are now in existence, which owe their origin to circumstances unconnected with or even contrary to the principle of equality. Thus if I were to select the United States as an example, I could easily prove that the nature of the country, the origin of its inhabitants, the religion of its founders, their acquired knowledge, and their former habits, have exercised, and still exercise, independently of democracy, a vast influence upon the thoughts and feelings of that people. Different causes, but no less distinct from the circumstance of the equality of conditions, might be traced in Europe, and would explain a great portion of the occurrences taking place amongst us. I acknowledge the existence of all these different causes, and their power, but my subject does not lead me to treat of them. I have not undertaken to unfold the reason of all our inclinations and all our notions: my only object is to show in what respects the principle of equality has modified both the former and the latter. Some readers may perhaps be astonished that—firmly persuaded as I am that the democratic revolution which we are witnessing is an irresistible fact against which it would be neither desirable nor wise to struggle—I should often have had occasion in this book to address language of such severity to those democratic communities which this revolution has brought into being. My answer is simply, that it is because I am not an adversary of democracy, that I have sought to speak of democracy in all sincerity. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it. I trust that my readers will find in this Second Part that impartiality which seems to have been remarked in the former work. Placed as I am in the midst of the conflicting opinions between which we are divided, I have endeavored to suppress within me for a time the favorable sympathies or the adverse emotions with which each of them inspires me. If those who read this book can find a single sentence intended to flatter any of the great parties which have agitated my country, or any of those petty factions which now harass and weaken it, let such readers raise their voices to accuse me. The subject I have sought to embrace is immense, for it includes the greater part of the feelings and opinions to which the new state of society has given birth. Such a subject is doubtless above my strength, and in treating it I have not succeeded in satisfying myself. But, if I have not been able to reach the goal which I had in view, my readers will at least do me the justice to acknowledge that I have conceived and followed up my undertaking in a spirit not unworthy of success. A. De T.

Mykola Riabchuk, a renowned Ukrainian public intellectual and political analyst, has been closely following and commenting on political developments in Ukraine since the early years of its independence. His best essays, collected within this book, focus primarily on the years of the presidency of Victor Yanukovych which were marked by a state capture, democratic recession and creeping authoritarian consolidation. An astute analysis of political processes combined with a sound essayistic narrative make the book essential reading for political scientists, students, and all those interested in the region.

Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; .44 or 9mm; revolver and automatic – the history of pistols and revolvers is a fascinating journey through the development of hand-held firearms technology. From early hand cannon of the late 14th century to the latest automatics and machine pistols, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers traces the development of these small arms as they evolved over the centuries. From a Thirty Years’ War wheel lock to today’s Beretta 92, from the Luger to the Colt to the latest Ruger, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Throughout the book there are technical specifications for featured firearms. Illustrated with more than 250 colour and black-and-white artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

Ця книга — про економ?ку як просту науку, яку здатен збагнути кожен. Автор — корейський економ?ст Ха-Юн Чан? — показу? нам ?закритий? св?т економ?ки, що прихову?ться в?д загалу за купою чисел, заплутаних формул та незрозум?лих терм?н?в. У книз? стверджу?ться: знатися на економ?ц? може ? повинен кожен.??Серед усього ?ншого автор розм?ркову? над причинами св?тово? кризи 2008 року, над тим, чи справд? люди б?дн?, бо л?нив?, а ус? багат? — працьовит?, а також чи може кра?на досягти економ?чних усп?х?в, перестрибнувши через етап ?ндустр?ал?зац??. ? все це — доступною, подекуди жарт?вливою, мовою.??

《新华日报·思想周刊》文丛系《新华日报》2017年1月创办“思想周刊”一年来其新论、政声、智库等专栏的思想理论成果的合集，反映了《新华日报》与时俱，传播党的声 音、服务人民群众的办报思想。《学思践悟》系其政声版“三做谈”“学思用”等栏目以及“做学习型干部 倡导研究性工作”专栏征文文章的合集。

《新华日报·思想周刊》文丛系《新华日报》2017年1月创办“思想周刊”一年来其新论、政声、智库等专栏的思想理论成果合集，反映了《新华日报》与时俱，传播党的声音、服务人民群众的办报思想。《决策之前》系智库版刊载的一些服务省委决策的重大主题策划以及各省级高端智库与重培育智库的重要文章的合集。

实现中华民族伟大复兴的重任历史性地落在了中国共产党身上。近百年来，中国共产党不忘初心、牢记使命、砥砺前行，充分展现了马克思主义使命型政党的主体意识与责任担当。作为国内*本系统研究马克思主义使命型政党的专著，本书结合历史与现实、理论与实践，在概念诠释的基础上，从对历史规律的深刻把握、对思想建党的高度重视、对制度治党的持续探索、对群众路线的自觉坚持、对党性修养的严格要求、对人类社会的使命承担、对思想方法的系统掌握七个方面对马克思主义使命型政党行了系统阐释。全书观鲜明，理论上具有创新性，实践中也具有较强的现实启示意义。

《中国历史的教训》（全新修订精装版），是一本以人物故事为主线、以廉政思想为内核的中国历史通俗读物，也是一本由纪检监察干部倾注心血、联系反腐败斗争的实际而写就的读史感悟。 作者习骅在“反腐一线”工作多年，全书收录了他创作于2012年—2014年，并发表在《中国纪检监察报》等多家媒体上的24篇“说古道今”的文章，以轻松的笔调通过众多令人嗟叹与沉思的人物故事，来讲述历史风云变幻中的不变正道。作者巧妙地从古今历史，特别是明清治国、吏治等历史典故中寻求成败教训、总结得失经验。从关注“四风”问题的《朱元璋为何暴茹太素》到透析“官商勾结”的《张之洞借钱》，从探索“总关”问题的《高级干部的低级错误》到聚焦作风建设的《作风建设与历史周期律》……这些文章紧跟十八大以来党中央“虎拍蝇”的节拍，精选案例，精讲故事，精析道理，成为学习领会新一届党中央治理腐败的坚定决心和高超战略的鲜活教材，是党员干部一步转变作风，守纪律讲规矩，做好各项工作的有益参考。 《中国历史的教训》（全新修订精装版），整体行全新修订，增加了多篇附录文章，有趣、有料，叙事流畅生动，见解独到深刻，传递廉政新思维正能量。

广东千村调查项目是由暨南大学经济与社会研究院发起，暨南大学社会调查中心与共青团暨南大学委员会共同主办的全省性调查项目，项目组前往3000余户农村家庭，深乡村收集高质量一手数据研究三农问题，实现学术研究与政策研究的有机结合，为广东省乃至全国的乡村振兴建言献策。本书共分七部分，*部分介绍了广东千村调查的缘起和部分研究报告，后六部分按调查行的先后顺序由项目各部分参与者提供真实记录手稿，记录历史，折射现实，为乡村提供更加真实的侧面写照。

本书以时间为序，着重研究1918—2017年历届中国政府救助海外难侨的具体过程及其所涉及的国际关系。全书分四章，探讨北洋政府救助俄属远东地区难侨、新中国政府救助印度被拘难侨、印尼“排华”与中国政府对难侨的救助，以及21世纪中国政府救助海外侨民的重要行动相关的史实、背后所涉及的国际关系，阐述中国政府如何在当地动荡的局势下保护与救助深陷困境的海外侨民，具有一定的学术参考价值。

　　历史是一面镜子。《中日关系大事辑览》以大事记的形式梳理两千余年来的中日关系历史，分四个部分细致地展现了中日两国在不同历史时期的互动和关系。以史为鉴，面向未来，就是要让历史的友好之光和经验教训，指引后人的前道路，终实现“和平共处、世代友好、互利合作、共同发展”的崇高目标。

本书撷取了260则古今中外关于治理的小故事，这些故事或来自经典论著，或来自史料笔记，或来自哲理寓言，还有相当一部分源于朋友间的分享推荐。全书故事虽然主题不同，情节各异，语言风格有庄有谐，但都蕴含着启人深思的大道理。每则故事读罢，观照自身，观诸现实，对何为从政之德、理政之道、治政之策，多少总会有些省思体悟。 一个地方要在区域竞争中脱颖而出，必须有一批富有治理智慧的善政者在方向上领路、在拓前谋划、在实干中通变。作者结合大量古今治理案例，运用相当篇幅对“怎么能做好”的理性思考和“如何干成事”的行动本领行了阐发，其间所蕴含的谋事成事之法，值得反复咀嚼体会。

【内容简介】 本书将2019年江苏省社科应用研究重大课题成果——共计15篇研究报告汇总结集出版，内容主要包括江苏建设现代化经济体系研究、高水平全面建成小康社会攻难关抓短板补弱项问题研究、推动生产性服务业与先进制造业融合发展研究、进一步优化营商环境的短板与对策研究、深化教育综合改革关键问题与对策研究、高起点开启基本实现现代化新征程研究、推进大运河文化带建设与实施国家区域发展战略衔接的抓手和突破口研究、“一带一路”交汇点建设与江苏加快推动制度型开放对策研究以及乡村产业振兴模式创新与案例研究等。

本书为江苏省社会科学院重课题，主要围绕新时代江苏经济社会高质量发展这一中心，从时代逻辑、探索实践、产业布局、企业转型、品牌质量建设、城市建设和农村建设等方面，行科学分析，指出江苏高质量发展过程中所面临的的突出问题和挑战，并提出全面深化改革的策略与路径。

信息化作为新的反腐手段，以其高效性、便捷性逐渐成为反腐的重要方法。随着网络信息技术和“大数据”深刻影响着社会生活的方方面面，运用信息技术和“大数据”分析等手段来发现“线索”、固定“证据”，成为“让监督插上科技的翅膀”*有力的手段。本书就是基于廉政反腐的信息化视角讨论廉政反腐的理论与信息化实践问题，通过对廉政反腐理论和信息化实践的研究，找到解决问题的方法。本书既可以为各级纪检监察部门和各级政府部门实施廉政反腐的信息化实践提供借鉴和参考，又可以作为各级纪检监察部门工作人员、政府机关工作人员，以及相关专业硕士生和本科生的培训教材，还可以作为各级纪检监察部门和政府机关实施廉政反腐信息化的参考工具。

 《新中国行政体制改革70年》是“上海市纪念新中国成立70年研究丛书”之一，本书按照时间顺序，主要回顾并梳理总结新中国成立70年来历次行政体制改革的伟大历程和宝贵经验。书中结合大量公历史文献资料、数据等，讲述了政府机构改革、政府职能转变、行政审批制度改革、国家公务员制度发展等主题，对于深化行政体制改革，推国家治理体系和治理能力现代化具有重要意义。

中国悠久灿烂的历史文化是一座智慧的宝藏，是我们祖先用智慧的双手和头脑历经数千年的风雨创造和积累而成的，它如同河蚌中的沙粒经受了痛苦的磨炼和时间的考验，终升华为闪闪发光的珍珠。作为华夏儿女我们没有理由不去阅读这些历史，没有理由不继承这些智慧精华并把它运用于实际。而今天我们所呈现给广大读者的是这其中忠臣良将的谏议谋略与锐利檄文。 中国悠久的历史中涌现出了许许多多的优秀官员，他们刚正不阿，清正廉洁，无私奉献的精神很值得现代人学习和借鉴，而能体现他们这些精神的就是他们对当时朝政的谏议。 古代官场有所谓的“伴君如伴虎”之说，伴君是一门高深的艺术，一个臣子如果既想保住性命又不失其忠心，善于进谏就必不可少，这就使其文章充满了高超的技巧和可昭日月的忠诚。当然，很多时候，这臣子的忠诚已盖过对生命的爱惜，因此这样的一些谏议更是正义凛然，其情感之真诚坚毅，其道理之苦口婆心，让人不得不为之深深动容。 而至于檄文，则多为讨伐类的文章，古代著名的檄文就是陈琳对曹操的讨檄，骆宾王对武则天的讨檄，这两篇檄文读来酣畅淋漓，让人不由得大呼痛快。就连所招讨的对象曹操、武则天都能对其人其文深加折服，其文之精彩可想而知。而我们这里所选编的则是更全面，更系统的古代檄文，虽不能说篇篇都如这两篇檄文那样精彩绝伦，但也都有其可圈可点之处。这些文章由于往往都是有的放矢，故其语言也往往是精辟独道，一针见血，甚而是入木三分，置所讨对手于哑口无言，更对自己的这一方有着极其巨大的鼓动性。 《古代经典谏议檄文》的选编花费了编者大量心力。当然，由于水平和条件所限，肯定还会有所漏。另外，由于时代现实的局限，这些文章中不可避免地暴露出来一些不健康的思想，比如对皇帝的愚忠，动辄以战等等，这是我们必须要注意的，希望读者朋友们能吸其精华，而不为其中那些消极思想所影响。

中国古代官德文化具有悠久的历史和丰富的内容，是历代政治家和思想家不断总结为官从政的经验教训而逐步形成的，在一定程度上揭示了国家治理和官员道德建设的基本规律，凝聚了中华民族丰富的人生智慧和治国理政经验，是当代干部为官从政和修身养德的有益资材。作者立足现代视角，以虔敬、辩证和扬弃的理念，梳理了中国古代官德规范的主要内容，归纳了古代官德的培养与建设方法，总结了古代官德的积极作用，分析了继承古代官德应有的态度，探讨了古代官德建设的启示和当代新型官德建设的途径，从而发挥古代官德文化资政育人的作用。

本书以加拿大的中等国家外交思想与国内政治文化为研究主轴，分析与探究了加拿大的“多边外交”的偏好以及自我定位国际政治（危机）中的“斡旋者”和“修复者”的内在政治文化的因素，并对加拿大在全球治理中的“悄悄贡献者”和“影子行为体”角色行了全方位的考察和研究。作者兼顾了当前的中加关系态势，对加拿大涉华智库和知华派以及中加关系的历史发展也行了全面梳理。本书为中国学者、政策决策者以及智库专家和读者提供了*、*系统的加拿大国别研究的专业知识和文本。   

A historical play by William Shakespeare describing the life and death of Richard III. The play begins with Richard describing the accession to the throne of his brother, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York. Richard plots to have his brother Clarence, who stands before him in the line of succession, conducted to the Tower of London over a prophecy he bribed a soothsayer to finagle the suspicious King with.

The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether in trade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families and individuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristine strength and freedom. The New Freedom is only the old revived and clothed in the unconquerable strength of modern America. I have not written a book since the campaign. I did not write this book at all. It is the result of the editorial literary skill of Mr. William Bayard Hale, who has put together here in their right sequences the more suggestive portions of my campaign speeches.And yet it is not a book of campaign speeches. It is a discussion of a number of very vital subjects in the free form of extemporaneously spoken words. I have left the sentences in the form in which they were stenographically reported. I have not tried to alter the easy-going and often colloquial phraseology in which they were uttered from the platform, in the hope that they would seem the more fresh and spontaneous because of their very lack of pruning and recasting. They have been suffered to run their unpremeditated course even at the cost of such repetition and redundancy as the ex-temporaneous speaker apparently inevitably falls into. WOODROW WILSON. ABOUT WOLSON: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, known as Woodrow Wil-son (1856 –1924), was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson earned a PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and served as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being chosen as President of Princeton University, a position he held from 1902 to 1910. In the election of 1910, he was the gubernatorial candidate of New Jersey's Democratic Party, and was elected the 34th Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1911 to 1913. Running for president in 1912, Wilson benefited from a split in the Republican Party, which enabled his plurality of just over forty percent to win him a large electoral college margin. He was the first Southerner elected as president since 1848, and Wilson was a lea-ding force in theProgressive Movement, bolstered by his Democratic Party's winning control of both the White House and Congress in 1912. In office, Wilson reintroduced the spoken State of the Union, which had been out of use since 1801. Leading the Congress, now in Democratic hands, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. Included among these were the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. Having taken office one month after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in theRevenue Act of 1913, reintroducing an income tax and lowering tariffs. Through passage of the Adamson Act, imposing an 8-hour workday for railroads, he averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis. Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality, while pursuing a more aggressive policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war. ***