If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

When PayPal launched its online payment service and set out to overhaul global currency markets it successfully weathered the dot-com bust and a fierce competitive struggle with the auction giant eBay. But hordes of government regulators, trial lawyers, and organized crime rings soon targeted PayPal for destruction, turning its quest to make Internet history into a desperate st...(展开全部)

When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal's history – as told by former insider Eric Jackson – is...(展开全部)

埃里克·杰克逊（Eric M. Jackson） PayPal成立初期的高管之一，曾担任PayPal产品营销总监。CapLinked公司的联合创始人兼CEO。CapLinked是一家专为投资人、创业者等提供简单高效投资协作平台的创业公司。

布赖恩•莱瓦克， 1965年获得福特汉姆大学的学士学位，1970年获得耶鲁大学的哲学博士学位。1969年加入德克萨斯州大学奥斯汀分校的历史系，现为该校历史学终身校董事讲席教授。作为数届教学奖得主，莱瓦克讲授多门课程，诸如英国、欧洲历史、法制史、巫术史。八年的系主任生涯对他而言是一项有价值但充满挑战性的工作，这使他难以如其所愿投入大量时间在他的教学和学术方面。他的著作包括《英格兰民事律师，1603-1641年：一份政治研究》（The Civil Lawyers in England,1603-1641: A Political Study，1973）、《英国的形成：英格兰、苏格兰和联合王国，1603-1707年》（The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1...(展开全部)

In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the empire’s existence. Indeed, so did its neighbors, allies...(展开全部)