The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"& mdash;a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from other cruelties? What makes its motivation "religious"? Where does it stand in relation to other forms of collective violence?Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the study of secular and religious traditions as well as his understanding of social, political, and anthropological theory and research, Asad questions Western assumptions regarding death and killing. He scrutinizes the idea of a "clash of civilizations," the claim that "Islamic jihadism" is the essence of modern terror, and the arguments put forward by liberals to justify war in our time. He critically engages with a range of explanations of suicide terrorism, exploring many writers' preoccupation with the motives of perpetrators. In conclusion, Asad examines our emotional response to suicide (including suicide terrorism) and the horror it invokes.On Suicide Bombingis an original and provocative analysis critiquing the work of intellectuals from both the left and the right. Though fighting evil is an old concept, it has found new and disturbing expressions in our contemporary "war on terror." For Asad, it is critical that we remain aware of the forces shaping the discourse surrounding this mode of violence, and by questioning our assumptions about morally good and morally evil ways of killing, he illuminates the fragile contradictions that are a part of our modern subjectivity.

As Chinese Communist Party secretary, Guo Yongchang was the most powerful man in his county, located in the rural inland province of Henan. Guo invited acclaimed documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao to record his final months in office. Through Zhou’s lens, we see Guo work tirelessly to achieve his greatest desire: for Henan to match the affluence of booming coastal areas. Zhou also captures the sordid details of local-level politics in pursuit of growth: lavish parties with foreign investors, threats to local workers protesting unpaid wages, and offers of bribes and kickbacks. (dGenerate Films)

罗蒂追述20世纪60年代以前老左派的思想成就，评点60年代至今文化左派的功过得失，他指出，为了“筑就我们的国家”，追求美国的建国理想，知识分子应做出更为脚踏实地的努力。
本书源于罗蒂1997年所作的“麦西美国文明史系列讲座”。书中的罗蒂自始至终慷慨激昂、充满自信，他旨在激励美国左派知识分子积极参与国内事条，重新点燃他们心中的热情，从而恢复美国文化生活的平衡。

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.

Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism, but also the ongoing discussions and research gaps on this topic.
IThe Oxford Handbook of Populism is divided into four sections. The first presents the main conceptual approaches on populism and points out how the phenomenon in question can be empirically analyzed. The second focuses on populist forces across the world and includes chapters on Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, India, Latin America, the Post-Soviet States, the United States, and Western Europe. The third reflects on the interaction between populism and various relevant issues both from a scholarly and political point of view. Amongst other issues, chapters analyze the relationship between populism and fascism, foreign policy, gender, nationalism, political parties, religion, social movements and technocracy. Finally, the fourth part includes some of the most recent normative debates on populism, including chapters on populism and cosmopolitanism, constitutionalism, hegemony, the history of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people, and socialism.
The handbook features contributions from leading experts in the field, and is indispensible, positioning the study of populism in political science.

本书论述民族与民族主义在欧洲近两百年历史中的种种表现及其内涵之演变。作者回避了对民族的概念和标准等问题的纠缠，而是着重于它们的变迁与转型，并借助于民族主义的研究来说明民族问题的复杂性。欧洲近现代史是因民族主义兴起而重新拼制版图的历史，各种民族与民族主义的意识也影响到周边地区与殖民地，因此，民族与民族主义的发展演变构成了这段历史的主旋律。本书对了解民族与民族主义在世界范围内的发展演变状况具有很高的参考价值。

序言
导论
第一章 民族新义：从革命到自由主义
第二章 民众观点：民族主义原型
第三章 政府观点
第四章 民族主义转型：1870-1918
第五章 民族主义最高峰：1918-1950
第六章 20世纪晚期的民族主义
英汉译名表

◆继福柯和德勒兹之后最引人注目的思想家之一雅克·朗西埃重新思考民主的颠覆性力量
◆一部深刻、尖锐的民主观念简史
◆特邀同济大学哲学系陆兴华教授撰写导读
【内容简介】
从柏拉图时代到法国大革命，再到20世纪的诸多理论家，雅克·朗西埃在《对民主之恨》中简述了民主观念史。在此 基础上，朗西埃为我们指出了民主的实质：民主不同于政治，它不是一种制度类型，也不是一种社会形式，而是那些既无权统治也无权服从的人们所特有的权力，其目的在于支持善的统治。他进而指出，民主通过全面打击一切建立在精英特权之上的权力形式来进行治理，由此对民主的恐惧乃至憎恨就植根于新的统治阶级之中。
【编辑推荐】
1、本书属于“左翼前沿思想译丛”，该译丛收录了巴迪欧、阿甘本、齐泽克等一批卓越的欧陆思想家在过去二十年间的经典著作，具有极高的理论价值。
2、作者雅克·朗西埃是当今最有影响力的欧陆思想家之一。有评论将之誉为继米歇尔·福柯和吉尔·德勒兹之后最引人瞩目的思想家之一。
3、在本书中，朗西埃以精炼的语言阐述了民主的观念史，不乏深刻、尖锐的观点以及对当下热门政治事件和政治生活的观照。本书从柏拉图时代谈起，一直延伸到20世纪的诸多理论家关于民主的思想和理念。
【学者及媒体推荐】
米歇尔·福柯和吉尔·德勒兹之后最引人注目的思想家与作者之一。
——汤姆·康尼（Tom Conley），哈佛大学
朗西埃在本书中批评了一种对人民做决定、为人民做决定，而非让人民做决定的政治形态；批评了一种为了维持自身的某种政治秩序而存在的政治，群体中的每一个部分都被安排在了“恰当”的位置上。
——卢卡·阿尔森加克（Luka Arsenjuk），马里兰大学
政治理论家们期待了十年甚至更长的时间，从雅克·朗西埃的著作这儿索求/提取关于政治的更为直接的理论；而现在，轮到西方的电影理论家、文学理论家、艺术史学家和美学家们了。
——奥利弗·戴维斯（Oliver Davis），华威大学
在这个左派失去了方向的时代，朗西埃的著作给我们提供了一系列少见的持续不断的关于如何继续抗争的概念。
——斯拉沃热·齐泽克
雅克·朗西埃将是我们当代中国理论知识分子们的一味苦药。朗老师是我们时代里一面活着的传统，对我们中国大陆师生，他是一面巨大的回音壁，还没怎么用过，用处可能就都留在今后了。如果有“毛泽东主义”者，有一个从1968年来不弯腰、不折的思想家，一个真正的不让步的选择派，他就是朗老师。理解他的困难，不在他的写作上的史诗式的横贯和修辞及辩证之精致稠密，而在于他的这种哲学、政治上的犟劲儿。
——陆兴华
这本机智而具讽刺性的论著有几分像是一场贯穿了政治哲学史的学术冲刺，又有几分像是对其思想上的竞争对手挥出的一连串极精彩的组合拳。
——《卫报》
朗西埃批评了西方国家对国内大众抗议与流行文化的蔑视姿态，以及用武力在世界范围内推行民主的做法。……但朗西埃为了显示我们政治话语中的含混性而避开了争论。他挑战了在他看来是普遍持有的观点，即民主生活与“冷漠消费者的非政治生活”是一对同义词。
——《新政治家》
一篇关于“民主”概念的定义与重定义的激动人心的文章……正在伊拉克发生的大灾难为朗西埃大胆的假设提供了十分明晰的证据，他认为在以“自由”的名义进行更多战争之前我们需要重新思考民主与权力之间的关系。
——《泰晤士报高等教育增刊》

Eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government in this timely and important work. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political system that people in the West generally view as straightforward and obvious is, in fact, deeply unclear and, in many cases, dysfunctional. Consisting of four thought-provoking lectures, Dunn's book sketches the path by which democracy became the only form of government with moral legitimacy, analyzes the contradictions and pitfalls of modern American democracy, and challenges the academic world to take responsibility for giving the world a more coherent understanding of this widely misrepresented political institution. Suggesting that the supposedly ideal marriage of liberal economics with liberal democracy can neither insure its continuance nor even address the problems of contemporary life, this courageous analysis attempts to show how we came to be so gripped by democracy's spell and why we must now learn to break it.

本书抓住新闻媒介与社会统治力量这一核心问题展开层层论述,深入考察了欧美新闻事业的演变发展以及新闻观点的产生变化,探讨了当今世界新闻传播领域的重大问题。

1997 film by Barry Levinson

Originally a chapter in the "Handbook of Political Science," this analysis develops the fundamental destinction between totalitarian and authoritarian systems. It emphasizes the personalistic, lawless, non-ideological type of authoritarian rule the author calls the "sultanistic regime."

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.

1986 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin

韩国纪录片电影，该纪录片将矛头瞄准韩国前总统李明博，前放送文化振兴会理事长金寓龙、前MBC电视台社长金在哲、前MBC电视台电视剧部门部长张根洙等李明博政府时期官员们也在影片中登场，讲述了李明博政府时期，官官相护、官商勾结，并利用KBS、MBC等电视台操纵舆论，欺骗大众的行为。

2013 film by Kim Byeong-u

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

主要讨论了当代西方国家管理体制的形成史，并分析了它与中世纪基督教管理的根本不同。福柯的涉入点是从一些新的概念的诞生和它的意义的源起的追踪开始，如治理术，人口，安全，国家理性，统计学，外交，平衡等等。由此，福柯描画出了当代国家机器是如何一步步的演化而来。福柯对当代人的社会本质的形成史分析，极为发人深省。

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

2003 film directed by Wolfgang Becker