这是中文版台湾本。中文版在内地由中华书局出版后，大约两年后，也即1984年，陶希圣先生从中华书局获得台湾版授权。陶氏是胡适的学生，早年曾参加“五四运动”，民国时期研修中国社会史，出版过著作《中国政治思想史》，创办《食货》半月刊，参与过若干重大历史事件，是有名的政治家。对这部论述中国明代政治社会的历史著作，自然比较看重。

是年陶氏86岁，仍力争在自己的食货出版社印刷《万历十五年》繁体版，文字仍按内地版不变，按说应是台岛上的第一个版本。之后八年时间里，食货初版印了25刷。改二版后，延到今年，又有印刷50次的记录，这总共75次印刷到底印数多少，实在无法统计，只由此看出这书所受到的欢迎。

A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.

The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.

This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.

From Publishers Weekly

Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union's labor camps in their more than 60 years of operation. This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor-unprecedented in scope-gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of capricious arrests, this prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Applebaum, a former Warsaw correspondent for the Economist and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, draws on newly accessible Soviet archives as well as scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors to trace the gulag's origins and expansion. By the gulag's peak years in the early 1950s, there were camps in every part of the country, and slave labor was used not only for mining and heavy industries but for producing every kind of consumer product (chairs, lamps, toys, those ubiquitous fur hats) and some of the country's most important science and engineering (Sergei Korolev, the architect of the Soviet space program, began his work in a special prison laboratory). Applebaum details camp life, including strategies for survival; the experiences of women and children in the camps; sexual relationships and marriages between prisoners; and rebellions, strikes and escapes. There is almost too much dark irony to bear in this tragic, gripping account. Applebaum's lucid prose and painstaking consideration of the competing theories about aspects of camp life and policy are always compelling. She includes an appendix in which she discusses the various ways of calculating how many died in the camps, and throughout the book she thoughtfully reflects on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust.
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From Library Journal

More than a full-scale history of the Soviet Gulag, this work by the Spectator's deputy editor asks why it is so little remembered in both Russia and the West.
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SUMMARY: Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism.Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial ?truth,? the public good, doing one?s duty--these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and that he says is now prevalent in the United States.Here is a frightening look at where America may be heading, a clarion call for all who are concerned about preserving our right to individual freedom.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liar’s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely—really unlikely—heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

From Publishers Weekly

Rising from humble roots, Sir Francis Walsingham is a model of a certain type of Elizabethan figure, thriving at an innovative court that preferred service by men of talent rather than by the high nobility. As Queen Elizabeth's secretary of the Privy Council, Walsingham coordinated a number of official and unofficial spy networks, historian Budiansky relates in this fresh look at the Virgin Queen's reign. Corresponding equally with ambassadors and shadowy informants, supervising code breakers and couriers, teaching himself the rules of watching and waiting, Walsingham developed influential models for the roles of secretary and spymaster. Additionally, according to Budiansky, at a time when religion was very much intertwined with both internal and external politics, he proved an early example of the political mindset that put national devotion above religious sentiment. Diplomatic intrigue and attempted conspiracies are natural threads to weave through the stories of Elizabeth's marriage negotiations; her struggle to create a religious settlement; her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots; and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Even readers who are already versed in Elizabeth's reign will find Budiansky's new angles on a much-examined era enlightening. (Aug. 22)
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From Booklist

Starred Review A journalist associated with the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic the author illuminates a new route to appreciating the distinct personality of England's Elizabeth I and the exciting climate found at her court. Budiansky's take on events isolates one particular--and particularly interesting--thread running through Elizabeth's long and vastly consequential reign: the career of Sir Francis Walsingham as the queen's ambassador to France and, later, as Her Majesty's private secretary. It was during the latter tenure that he organized a spy ring to supply his royal boss with diplomatic information vital to the safekeeping of the kingdom and to affect affairs abroad in favor of the maintenance of her throne. The "case" in which he was most engrossed as spymaster to the queen was keeping up with Mary Stuart's "tricks" to disestablish her cousin Elizabeth and pave the way for her to assume the English crown herself, as well as her own Scottish one. Walsingham himself, however, is not shrouded in darkness and mystery in this vivid account; he emerges full-blown as a "strange and powerful combination" of both Puritan and Renaissance man. Brad Hooper
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《大明王朝(套装共4册)》内容简介：一个放过牛，当过和尚的人建立了这个王朝。明朝，取《易经》中“大明始终”之意，朱元璋，是一个伟大的人物，他干脆利落地灭了元朝，开创了一个新的时代，然而，他的王朝又要马上过去，化作历史的烟尘。这是中国式的王朝兴替，佛家叫轮回，经济学家叫周期，而历史学家，干脆就把它称之为历史周期律。 蒙元的统治日益残暴黑暗，到元顺帝（元惠宗）时期，暴发了韩山童、刘福通、徐寿辉等领导的红巾军起义。朱元璋参加了红巾军，他南征北战。1364年，朱元璋自称为吴王，史称西吴政权。1368年，朱元璋称帝，以应天府（南京）为京师，国号大明，年号洪武，建立了明朝，朱元璋就是明太祖。不久他又命徐达、常遇春等大将北伐蒙元，攻占大都（北京），元顺帝北逃，元朝在中国历经98年的统治宣告结束。中国进入明代统治，明朝共有二十位皇帝（包括南明四帝），明朝的领土除囊括清朝时期所谓内地十八省之范围，还包括今天的东北地区、新疆东部、西藏、缅甸北部、西伯利亚东部和越南北部等地，并首次将今天的南沙，台湾正式纳入我国版图，并曾在东南亚的安南，旧港等地设有羁縻管理机构，势力远及印度洋和中亚。最强盛时，影响力更是波及非洲东岸和整个亚洲。 《大明王朝(套装共4册)》包括：《大明王朝(1)》、《大明王朝(2)》、《大明王朝(3)》和《大明王朝(4)》。

“惟此独立之精神，自由之思想，历千万祀，与天壤而同久，共三光而永光。” 陈寅恪老师目盲足膑，在衰暮残年，花上百万言，为一个风尘女子立传，究竟是何用意？ 陈寅恪（1890-1969），江西修水人。早年留学日本及欧美，先后就读于德国柏林大学、瑞士苏黎世大学、法国巴黎高等政治学校和美国哈佛大学。一九二五年受聘清华学校研究院导师，回国任教。后任清华大学中文、历史系合聘教授，兼任中央研究院理事、历史语言研究所研究员、第一组主任及故宫博物院理事等，其后当选为中央研究院院士。一九三七年“芦沟桥事变”后带全家离北平南行，先后任教于西南联合大学、香港大学、广西大学和燕京大学。一九三九年被选为英国皇家学会通讯院士。一九四二年后为教育部聘任教授。一九四六年回清华大学任教。一九四八年南迁广州，任岭南大学教授，一九五二年后为中山大学教授。一九五五年后并为中国科学院哲学社会科学学部委员。 本书是陈先生最后一部作品。