克雷格‧罗奇（Craig Roach） 世界公认的电力行业专家，有40年的从业经验。 他本科毕业于美国约翰·卡罗尔大学，后在威斯康星大学获得经济学博士学位。他曾经是北美地区监管流程和法律方面的专家顾问，之后创办了一家专门从事电力和天然气业务的咨询公司——波士顿太平洋公司，并担任总裁职务。他和他的公司已成为电力公司和投资者最信任的监管政策方面的顾问之一。

Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones. Without television. Without sprawling cities. Without the freedom to continue working and playing after the sun goes down. Electricity is at the core of all modern life. It has transformed our society more than any other technology. Yet, no book offers a comprehensive history about this technological marvel. Until now. Sim...(展开全部)

Review "Reasonably priced, comprehensive edition with good selection of other writings."--Virginia Caris, George Washington University "I really like this edition because of the variety of Franklin's writings represented here. The affordability of this text is greatly appreciated by the students as well."--Lynn Searfoss, Purdue University --This text refers to an out of print o...(展开全部)

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Afri...(展开全部)

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Afri...(展开全部)

SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a century after the space race it is private companies, led by SpaceX, standing alongside NASA, pushing forward i...(展开全部)

A thorough examination of the Cold War, taken from interviews with leading participants on both sides of the Iron Curtain for a major ten- part radio programme to be broadcast by the BBC World Service and in abbreviated form by BBC Radio Four, later in 1993. This major work will provide an insight into what the Cold War was like for those who were involved in running it, and fo...(展开全部)

The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Ar...(展开全部)

斯科特‧克里斯蒂安松（Scott Christianson），纽约州立大学阿尔巴尼分校博士，并曾于哥伦比亚大学新闻学院研究调查报导。同时也是一位优秀的作家，著有许多杰出而畅销的非虚构类书籍，如《改变世界的100张草图：从革新医学的人体解剖图到颠覆音乐产业的iPod原型》等。

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of 'fixed stars' gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time and space - with significant and far-reaching consequences for human thought. Alex...(展开全部)