Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty ...(展开全部)

Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improve...(展开全部)

温斯顿·邱吉尔（1874-1968）毕业于英国哈罗公学和桑赫斯特军事学院，在军中服役数年后，做了一名报纸记者，随后成为议员。1940年5月张伯伦政府倒台后，邱吉尔组建了联合政府，并在第二次世界大战期间担任了英国的战时首相。他在1945年7月的大选中败北，成为反对党领袖，并于1951年再度当选首相。在他生命的最后岁月中，他经常被称为”尚健在的最伟大的英国人”。他于1953年被封为爵士，并获得了当年的诺贝尔文学奖。他的孙子温斯顿·S·邱吉尔（生于1940年），也是一位作家、记者和政治人物。

inston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the definitive collection of Churchill's speeches fills eight volumes, here for the first time, his grandson, Winston S. Churchill, has put ...(展开全部)

From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. The Delaney family love one another dearly―it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . If your mother was missing, would you ...(展开全部)

From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. The Delaney family love one another dearly―it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . If your mother was missing, would you ...(展开全部)

A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and con...(展开全部)

"Whatever goes up must come down" does not, fortunately, apply to most of the structures in today's world. In fact, whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses nowadays, it is front page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as fascinating as any detective story. In this book, two of the world's premier structural engineers take us on a j...(展开全部)