Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Ara...(展开全部)

Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen by Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. Some of the Americans in Hitler’s Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind, a few were Nazi apologists. But most began slowly to understand what was unfolding, even when they found ...(展开全部)

安德鲁•纳戈尔斯基，现任纽约国际事务思想库东西学院副院长和公共政治系主任。曾长期担任美国《新闻周刊》驻外总编，驻地包括香港、莫斯科、罗马、波恩、华沙、柏林等。著有《最伟大的战役：斯大林、希特勒和改变二战进程的莫斯科苦斗》等书。

With its range of expert essays and readings, detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain,...(展开全部)

The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murder...(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)

Represents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenste...(展开全部)