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)

Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of leadership success that hid cracks in its foundation. In a masterful appraisal of the company that claimed to "bring good things to life," William B. Cohan, one of Am...(展开全部)

The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we ta...(展开全部)

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)

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 lessons of this book can help us all find the opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered in the challenges we face every day. This book is about failure, but failure in a whole new light. It is about how to Fail To Succeed.

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 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)

【作者简介】 斯蒂芬•格林布拉特（Stephen Greenblatt），著名文学批评家、莎士比亚研究学者、作家，哈佛大学约翰•科根校级教授（John Cogan University Professor），《诺顿版莎士比亚全集》主编，曾获梅隆杰出人文学者奖、普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等，著有《大转向》、《莎士比亚的自由》（以上两部作品已由甲骨文推出中文版）、Will in the World、Tyrant等知名作品。 【译者简介】 生安锋，清华大学人文学院外文系长聘教授、博士生导师，中国比较文学学会理事，国际比较文学学会会员，美国哈佛大学博士后，中美富布赖特高级研究学者。研究领域包括英美文学、当代西方文论、比较文学、文化研究等。

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibil...(展开全部)