An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetiti...(展开全部)

Richard L. Brandt is an award-winning journalist and former correspondent for BusinessWeek. He is the author of Inside Larry and Sergey’s Brain.Amazon’s business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won’t think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: Buy now with one-click. Richard L. Brandt explains how ...(展开全部)

Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy that customers won't think twice. It can be summed up by that button on every page: 'Buy now with one click'. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it hinges on Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique character and ruthless business sense have driven Amazon relentlessly forward. Through inter...(展开全部)

波·布朗森和阿什利·梅里曼，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，社会学家，心理学家。他们的合著曾在《纽约时报》最畅销榜单中持续夺冠6个月，被翻译成16种语言，在超过35个“年度最佳”名单中出现。他们的研究涉及社会学、心理学、军事学、生物学等诸多领域，多角度研究人类心理与行为的规律和奥秘。他们的合作曾获得美国9个国家奖项，包括美国科学发展协会的杰出新闻奖。

It's a Dog Eat Dog World. Don't Be on the Menu. What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the next? Can we in fact become better competitors? In TOP DOG , Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman use cutting edge science to tease out the hidden factors at the core of every great triumph - and e...(展开全部)

波·布朗森和阿什利·梅里曼，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，社会学家，心理学家。他们的合著曾在《纽约时报》最畅销榜单中持续夺冠6个月，被翻译成16种语言，在超过35个“年度最佳”名单中出现。他们的研究涉及社会学、心理学、军事学、生物学等诸多领域，多角度研究人类心理与行为的规律和奥秘。他们的合作曾获得美国9个国家奖项，包括美国科学发展协会的杰出新闻奖。

It's a Dog Eat Dog World. Don't Be on the Menu. What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the next? Can we in fact become better competitors? In TOP DOG , Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman use cutting edge science to tease out the hidden factors at the core of every great triumph - and e...(展开全部)

Part One of "Angels in America", subtitled "Millennium Approaches", erupted on to the stage of the National Theatre in January 1992. Part Two, "Perestroika", followed in November 1993. Since then "Angels in America" has become one of the most studied American plays, with over 30,000 copies of both parts sold in the UK alone. It has also been filmed for television by Mike Nichol...(展开全部)

Part One: Millennium Approaches won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993. Part Two: Perestroika steers the characters from part one from the opportunistic '80s to a new sense of community in the '90s.

托克维尔(1805-1859)，法国历史学家、社会学家。主要代表作有《论美国的民主》第一卷(1835)、《论美国的民主》第二卷(1840年)、《旧制度与大革命〉。《论美国的民主》使他享有世界声誉。其上卷的第一部分讲述美国的政治制度，第二部分对美国的民主进行社会学的分析。下卷分四个部分，以美国为背景发挥其政治哲学和政治社会学思想。出身贵族世家，经历过五个“朝代”(法兰西第一帝国、波旁复辟王朝、七月王朝、法兰西第二共和国、法兰西第二帝国)。前期热心于政治，1838年出任众议院议员，1848年二月革命后参与制订第二共和国宪法，1849年一度出任外交部长。1851年路易·波拿巴建立第二帝国，托克维尔对政治日益失望，从政治舞台上逐渐淡出，并逐渐认识到自己“擅长思想胜于行动”。《托克维尔回忆录》是一本关于1848年法国二月革命的回忆录，对其间许多人物(比如路易·...(展开全部)