马克·科兰斯基，《宗派评论》(Partisan Reviews)专栏作家，并经常为《国际先驱导报》、《芝加哥论坛报》及《纽约时报杂志》撰写文章。主要作品有《巴斯克人的世界史》(The Basque History of the World：The Story of a Nation)；《被选择的少数：欧洲犹太人的复兴》(A Chosen Few：The Resurrection of European Jewry)、《非暴力主义：一种危险观念的历史》(Nonviolence：The History of a DanKerous Idea)等。此外，他的专著《鳕鱼》(Cod：A BioKraphy of the Fish that Changed the World)获得詹姆斯·比尔德食品写作优秀奖。

Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, t...(展开全部)

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the longer run, the...(展开全部)

The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year. Everything changed in 1492: the way power and wealth were distributed around the globe, the way major reli...(展开全部)

When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has b...(展开全部)

When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has b...(展开全部)

莱斯利•伍德海德爵士是英国最具声望的纪录片制片人之一，他在1962年拍摄了披头士的第一部影片。他的影片曾获多项国际大奖，包括美国的艾美奖和皮博蒂电影奖，英国的BAFTA电影节及联合王国皇家电视协会颁发的奖项。他还出版过两本书，《我的间谍生活》和《精神之盒》。现居住于英国柴郡。

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical traditions to support his vision for the Third Reich. Everything that would come--the rallies and riots, the single-minded deployment of a catastrophically ev...(展开全部)