From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

亨利·基辛格（Henry Kissinger）哈佛大学博士、教师，美国前国务卿，20世纪美国最著名的外交家、国际问题专家，被称为“美国政坛常青树”。1971年7月，基辛格作为尼克松总统秘密特使访华，为中美建交开启了大门，为中美关系做出了历史性贡献。他与毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平等领导人都有过深入的交往。1973年1月，基辛格在巴黎完成了结束越南战争的谈判，并因此获得诺贝尔和平奖。其主要著作有《论中国》、《大外交》、《白宫岁月》、《复兴年代》等。

In this accessible, prescriptive, and widely applicable manual, Google’s first engineering director and current Innovation Agitator Emeritus provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed. Millions of people around...(展开全部)

Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing, and revenge. Using an original data set, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result...(展开全部)

You′ve read the headlines: industry after industry (airlines, automakers, drug companies, high tech) battered by globalization, deregulation, and commoditization. The Darwinian struggle to deliver profitable products and services keeps getting more brutal as competitive advantage gaps get narrower and narrower. Anything you invent today will soon be copied by someone else — pro...(展开全部)

This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes wi...(展开全部)

【保罗·图赫（Paul Tough）】 《纽约时报杂志》（The New York Times Magazine）特约撰稿人以及公共广播节目《美国人的生活》（This American Life）定期撰稿人。他的作品经常刊登在《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）、《绅士季刊》（GQ）和 《君子杂志》 （Esquire）等刊物上。他曾担任过《纽约时报杂志》和《哈泼斯杂志》（Harper's Magazine）的编辑以及《美国人的生活》节目监制。他与妻子及两个孩子一起住在纽约蒙托克小镇。登录paultough.com网站或访问Twitter@paultough了解更多关于他的信息。

"A splendid history.... If Americans want to be convinced of the benefits of empire, as well as apprised of its costs, they need merely pick up Ferguson's dazzling book." -- Weekly Standard The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world's land surface was under s...(展开全部)