From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of fascinating questions. What has been the social and cultural role of design in American society? To produce useful things that consu...(展开全部)

In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before. T...(展开全部)

An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”—Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary ...(展开全部)

瓦科拉夫•斯米尔（Vaclav Smil），马尼托巴大学终身名誉教授，曾在2010年被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志评选为“全球百位思想家”。他研究的领域涉猎广泛，并作跨学科研究，包括能源、环境、食品、人口、经济、历史和公共政策等。他还将这些方法应用到研究中国的能源、食品和环境问题上。 瓦科拉夫•斯米尔曾在能源、环境、粮食和技术发展史等领域出版了30多本专著，其中包括MIT出版社出版的《全球化的原动机：柴油机和蒸汽涡轮机的历史和影响》（Prime Movers of Globalization：The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines）和《生物圈的丰收：我们从自然界拿走了什么》（Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Ta...(展开全部)

An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”—Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary ...(展开全部)

瓦科拉夫•斯米尔（Vaclav Smil），马尼托巴大学终身名誉教授，曾在2010年被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志评选为“全球百位思想家”。他研究的领域涉猎广泛，并作跨学科研究，包括能源、环境、食品、人口、经济、历史和公共政策等。他还将这些方法应用到研究中国的能源、食品和环境问题上。 瓦科拉夫•斯米尔曾在能源、环境、粮食和技术发展史等领域出版了30多本专著，其中包括MIT出版社出版的《全球化的原动机：柴油机和蒸汽涡轮机的历史和影响》（Prime Movers of Globalization：The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines）和《生物圈的丰收：我们从自然界拿走了什么》（Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Ta...(展开全部)

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomi...(展开全部)

Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‑style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapo...(展开全部)

Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‑style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapo...(展开全部)