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)

约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷思，美国著名经济学家、新制度学派领军人物。哈佛大学保罗·M．沃伯格经济学名誉教授。加尔布雷思著述颇丰，涉猎也极广。除本书外，还出版了《1929年大崩盘》《美国资本主义：抗衡力量的概念》《富裕社会》《美好社会——人类议程》《权力的分析》《经济学和公共目标》《不确定的时代》《我们时代的生活》等学术著作。

约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷思，美国著名经济学家、新制度学派领军人物。哈佛大学保罗·M．沃伯格经济学名誉教授。加尔布雷思著述颇丰，涉猎也极广。除本书外，还出版了《1929年大崩盘》《美国资本主义：抗衡力量的概念》《富裕社会》《美好社会——人类议程》《权力的分析》《经济学和公共目标》《不确定的时代》《我们时代的生活》等学术著作。

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in "The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consum...(展开全部)

The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite of destructive wars and a rapid growth of population, the material living standards of most of...(展开全部)

The Industrial Revolution brought momentous change throughout the country and shaped a significant industrial force in the Tees Valley. How this transformation was achieved is revealed as the towns an

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(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)