The Big Payback takes us from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the recent multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost...(展开全部)

A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopédie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized int...(展开全部)

A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopédie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized int...(展开全部)

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a postÂ-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial g...(展开全部)

The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education. What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this ...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·莱曼 | Nicholas Lemann 美国资深媒体人、学者。1976年毕业于哈佛大学，随即投身新闻事业，先后供职于《华盛顿月刊》《得克萨斯月刊》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》，自1999年开始担任《纽约客》特约撰稿人。2003年9月，出任哥伦比亚大学新闻学院院长；2010年入选美国人文与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士；现任哥伦比亚大学“约瑟夫•普利策二世与伊迪丝•普利策•摩尔新闻学讲席教授”，以及哥伦比亚大学新闻学院名誉院长。

In the traditional model, business operates in an economic flow of inputs (resources and raw materials), outputs (products and services) and processes that help get you from one to the other (research and development, production, distribution).

In the book How to Rap, Guerilla Black notes that Eminem studied other MCs to create his rapping technique – “Eminem listened to everything and that’s what made him one of the greats”. Eminem is praised there for various aspects of his rapping technique by numerous other MCs – these techniques include: his varied and humorous subject matter, connecting with his audience, carry...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 弗雷德•斯皮尔（Fred Spier）,国际大历史协会创始人之一，曾任该协会主席，大历史学派理论重要的贡献者，荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学高级讲师（Senior Lecturer）。最初研习生物化学，后转向文化人类学和社会史，全身心投入到大历史研究和普及事业中。1994年至2016年在阿姆斯特丹大学组织并教授大历史课程；2003年至2013年在埃因霍温理工大学开办大历史系列讲座；2009年至2018年在阿姆斯特丹大学学院开办大历史课程。斯皮尔进行了广泛的学术研究，包括植物的遗传操作、秘鲁的宗教，政治和生态。已出版《秘鲁的宗教制度》（Religious Regimes in Peru）、《大历史的结构：从大爆炸到今天》（The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today）、《大历史...(展开全部)

Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity. Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that pla...(展开全部)