In the 1960s Enzo Ferrari emerged as the dominant force in sports cars in the world, creating speed machines that were unbeatable on the race track and moved one writer to say they 'felt dangerous just to sit in'. In America, the Ford Motor Company was quickly losing ground as the pre-eminent brand. Young Americans wanted speed over comfort, style over safety, and Ford was fall...(展开全部)

The remarkable story of the scientific revolution that made the new economy possible-software-told through the unsung heroes of programming and their achievements. In the 1950s, just before John Backus's team developed the Fortran language that revolutionized the first generation of programming, it took dozens of full-time programmers and operators to run and debug each of t...(展开全部)

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To Hell with Culture offers readers an ideal overview of the ideas that marked o...(展开全部)

内容简介 · · · · · · This well-documented first-hand account, written with passionate concern, about the struggle to ensure equal educational opportunities for all is a truly inspiring read. As China continues to grow and develop, there is no more important issue than ensuring equal educational opportunity to all its citizenry. Project Hope, organized by the Communist Youth League...(展开全部)

内容简介 · · · · · · This well-documented first-hand account, written with passionate concern, about the struggle to ensure equal educational opportunities for all is a truly inspiring read. As China continues to grow and develop, there is no more important issue than ensuring equal educational opportunity to all its citizenry. Project Hope, organized by the Communist Youth League...(展开全部)

A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where...(展开全部)

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in...(展开全部)