"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)

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)

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline. It then continues by forecasting the positions of China, Japan, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Soviet Union and the United...(展开全部)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline. It then continues by forecasting the positions of China, Japan, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Soviet Union and the United...(展开全部)

Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days an...(展开全部)

亨利·明茨伯格 当今世界上最杰出的管理思想家之一。加拿大麦吉尔大学(McGill)管理学院教授，战略管理学会主席，在欧洲工商管理学院、伦敦商学院、埃克斯一马赛大学、卡内基．梅隆大学和蒙特利尔高等商学院等学校担任访问学者。他曾两次获得《哈佛商业评论》所颁发的年度最佳文章“麦肯锡奖”。他最知名的著作《管理工作的本质》奠定了其管理大师地位。他对管理工作的观察与研究，至今无人能超越。除此之外，他的代表作还包括《管理者而非MBA》《明茨伯格论管理》《明茨伯格管理进行时》等。

亨利·明茨伯格 当今世界上最杰出的管理思想家之一。加拿大麦吉尔大学(McGill)管理学院教授，战略管理学会主席，在欧洲工商管理学院、伦敦商学院、埃克斯一马赛大学、卡内基．梅隆大学和蒙特利尔高等商学院等学校担任访问学者。他曾两次获得《哈佛商业评论》所颁发的年度最佳文章“麦肯锡奖”。他最知名的著作《管理工作的本质》奠定了其管理大师地位。他对管理工作的观察与研究，至今无人能超越。除此之外，他的代表作还包括《管理者而非MBA》《明茨伯格论管理》《明茨伯格管理进行时》等。