In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The ...(展开全部)

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH, FBA, (born June 9, 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author. 艾瑞克·约翰·欧内斯特·霍布斯邦（Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm，1917年6月9日－）英国历史学家及作家。 霍布斯邦于1917年出生于埃及亚力山卓，并成长于维也纳和柏林 他的父母Leopold Percy Hobsbaum和Nelly Grün皆为犹太人。一个行政上的疏失使他的姓从Hobsbaum变成Hobsbawm，and the name stuck.虽然他的家庭居住于德语系国家，但他的双亲对霍布斯邦及他的妹妹萳西使用的是英语。 他的父亲于1929年逝世后，他开始担任互惠生（au pair）和英文家教。在他十四岁时随着她母亲的去世，...(展开全部)

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communic...(展开全部)

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is abou...(展开全部)

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communic...(展开全部)

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is abou...(展开全部)

Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of 'unplanned' cities that grow organically, in contrast with ...(展开全部)

Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of 'unplanned' cities that grow organically, in contrast with ...(展开全部)