Review “A gripping and deeply reported account of the devastating disintegration of one of the most iconic firms ever to exist. To all of us shocked by GE’s seemingly abrupt fall from grace, this book lays out in painful detail how such a thing could have happened.”—Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School, author of Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Busines...(展开全部)

一部关于美国标志性企业令人震惊的崛起和难以想象的衰落的神奇历史 也许没有哪家公司能像标志性的通用电气公司一样，反映美国的智慧、创新和工业财富。通用电气公司拥有众多传奇式的领导人和几乎所有可以想象到的产品，它的成功为人们所崇拜，但却隐藏着根基上的裂痕。作为美国杰出的财经记者之一，威廉-D-科汉（William D. Cohan）在这部巨著中指出，通用电气的遗产既是了解二十世纪美国的典范，也是警世故事。 《Power Failure》介绍了通用电气公司 130 年的峥嵘历史，通过对公司黄金时代的关键人物（包括杰克-韦尔奇本人）进行罕见的采访，为读者带来了全新的分析。正如科汉所叙述的，韦尔奇以其传统为基础，使通用电气成为世界上有价值、受尊敬的公司，同时也掩盖了其弱点。科汉认为，他交给继任者杰弗里-伊梅尔特的，既是一个不可能达到的标准，也是一个更加麻烦的...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the b...(展开全部)

姚远，南京师范大学法学院暨中国法治现代化研究院副教授，江苏高校区域法治发展协同创新中心研究员，四海法学编译馆馆长。 丁文慧，四海法学编译馆翻译助理，现供职于海天集团法务部。

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he ...(展开全部)

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he ...(展开全部)

In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itsel...(展开全部)

Journey Back to Regency England—Land of the Undead! Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies . As our story opens, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English country side. They idle away the days reading, gardening, and daydreami...(展开全部)