A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this lively and thought-provokin...(展开全部)

Who writes the past? And how do the biases of storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - influence our ideas about history today? Epic, authoritative and entertaining, Making History delves into the lives of those who have charted human history - professional historians, witnesses, novelists, journalists and propagandists - to discover the agend...(展开全部)

彼得·戴曼迪斯（Peter Diamandis）  全球商业太空探索的领军人，共创立了十几家商业太空探索公司，已将8位顾客送上了国际空间站。  X大奖创始人。戴曼迪斯创立了X大奖基金会，用X大奖的形式鼓励私人太空探索。此后，为了激励人们的创新活动，X大奖基金会在环保、汽车、健康等领域陆续设立了X大奖。  奇点大学执行主席。戴曼迪斯和库兹韦尔提出：要聚集世界上最聪明的大脑，让他们学习最前沿的未来科学，去解决世界上最宏大的问题。因此，两人共同创立了奇点大学（Singularity University），致力于培养面向未来的、有“全球性”和“指数型”思维方式的人才。 斯蒂芬·科特勒（Steven Kotler）  流动基因组计划创始人之一、总裁，作家及优秀记者。

Imagine 6.8 billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and non-polluting and ubiquitous energy. Since the dawn of humanity there has always been a privileged, prosperous few living in stark contrast to the majority struggling with disease, starvation and poverty. At first glance it seems that we'll never ...(展开全部)

Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women. For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, write...(展开全部)

幽默的生活经济学大师蒂姆·哈福德（Tim Harford），深受读者追捧的卧底经济学家，被誉为“当前幽默的生活经济学大师”。他主笔的“亲爱的经济学家”专栏已成为《金融时报》关注度极高的专栏之一，在专栏中，他用前沿的经济学理论为读者五花八门的疑问和牢骚提供轻松诙谐的经济学解读。 著有《卧底经济学》，这本书已经被翻译为30 种语言，在世界多国发行。他还曾在世界银行工作，担任牛津大学的经济学教授，为国际知名金融公司担任经济学家。目前他与妻子及两个孩子一起住在伦敦。

"Middle management" is a term associated with relentless downsizing, corporate drudgery, and career dead-ends. Bashed by management gurus, dismissed by social scientists, and painted as victims by the media, middle managers seem permanently relegated to the sidelines of corporate power. But is this popular picture accurate? Are middle managers really no longer valued by today...(展开全部)

The Renaissance burst forth in all its glory around 1500 and spread throughout Europe. This period of great creativity and productivity in the arts and sciences is illuminated in this book through the lives of more than ninety of its illustrious intellectuals, artists, literary figures, scientists, and rulers. Included are such major figures as Lorenzo and Catherine de’ Medici,...(展开全部)

罗伯特·戴维斯（Robert Davis），俄亥俄州立大学意大利文艺复兴和地中海前现代史名誉教授。他曾研究过意大利、罗马、巴勒莫、威尼斯、梵蒂冈等城市，主要致力于普通人的生活和他们珍视的价值观。他曾撰写了关于威尼斯作为世界上最受游客欢迎的城市和文艺复兴时期的男性与女性的书籍和文章。他还参与过一些关于造船、嘉年华和地中海奴隶贸易的电视纪录片，目前正在撰写一部关于现代欧洲历史的教科书。 贝丝·琳达史密斯（Beth Lindsmith），俄亥俄州立大学文学及创意写作讲师，她撰写了大量在历史、哲学和人类学方面的学术论文，并被广泛的出版。 祝羽捷，原笔名祝小兔。前《时尚芭莎》专题总监，上海作协会员，知名学者，专栏作家，艺术作家，文艺生活家。公众号“好好虚度时光”创始人。纪录片《ZHU在英伦》出品人。2018年荣获英国旅游局“中国区社交媒体影响力友好大使”称号。...(展开全部)

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.