This stimulating book asks key questions about the twentieth century's leading American generals and, by analysing their character and personality, outlines the qualities which went into making officers such as Patton, Eisenhower and Schwarzkopf distinctive and successful in combat. Based on frank discussions and interviews with American generals and their staffs, and a detaile...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•J. 埃利斯（Joseph J. Ellis） 美国著名历史学家和畅销书作家，撰写了一系列脍炙人口的美国建国史作品。他的《杰斐逊传：美国的斯芬克斯》和《奠基者：独立战争那一代》分别荣获美国国家图书奖和美国普利策历史奖。 埃利斯早年就读于威廉玛丽学院和耶鲁大学。他曾在美国军中服役并在西点军校任教，军衔达到陆军上尉。埃利斯目前执教于马萨诸塞大学。 埃利斯主要研究美国殖民地和建国时代的历史，是该领域的权威学者和历史普及作家，为广大历史读者打开了了解美国建国史的窗口。《福布斯》杂志曾盛赞埃利斯的读者声望，称他是“历史学家中的罗杰•费德勒”。

杜黑1869年5月30日，杜黑出生于意大利南部那不勒斯以北23公里处一个名叫卡塞塔的小镇。他出身于军人世家，家中几代都为萨伏依王室服务。由于受家庭熏陶，杜黑自幼立志继承父业，从军习武。他先是进入都灵军事工程学校学习，由于学习刻苦，成绩优异，1888年毕业时，被直接授予炮兵中尉军衔，时年19岁。后来，杜黑又进入陆军大学学习，研究有关现代战争的战略战术以及战争中的后勤问题。毕业后，他被派到陆军许多岗位上工作。无论在哪里，他都致力于科学技术与军事应用相结合。深厚的科技知识和军事知识功底，使他工作成绩十分突出，很快就晋升为上尉，并调到陆军参谋部工作。20世纪初，他受命参加研究意大利军队的机械化问题，预见到飞机在军事上将有重大的作用，从此走上了一条探索研究空军理论的坎坷人生之路。 1903年12月17日，美国莱特兄弟在北卡罗来纳州的基蒂霍克首次驾驶一架有动力的...(展开全部)

“The Lonely Crowd . . . remains not only the best‑selling book by a professional sociologist in American history, but arguably one that has had the widest influence on the nation at large.”—Orlando Patterson, New York Times Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, The Lonely Crowd opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding o...(展开全部)

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness...(展开全部)

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness...(展开全部)

The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one a 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of humanity. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals that the move from deity to ordinary member of the human race can be a very difficult thing indeed from whic...(展开全部)

In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out, but . . . how clever...(展开全部)