An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the mo...(展开全部)

Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Big Switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The...(展开全部)

An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the mo...(展开全部)

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)

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)

保罗·约翰逊，英国著名历史学家。他是我们这个时代最著名的历史学者之一，入选美国《时代》杂志2000年一百大人物。1928年出生于英国兰开夏，牛津大学麦格德林学院毕业。他曾是一名激进的左翼人士，任《新政治家》编辑，但后来在撒切尔夫人的影响下思想右转，并成为支持英国政治保守主义的著名知识分子代表。 主要论著:他撰写了一大批具有里程碑意义的历史著作，涵盖历史、哲学及宗教等领域。包括《论知识分子》、《犹太人史》、《当代》、《美国人民史》、《英国人民史》、《艺术：一段新历史》等。他定期为全球最著名的报纸及杂志写稿，包括英国《每日电讯报》、《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》，现为《观察家报》、《每日邮报》的专栏作家。

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light , historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science...(展开全部)

吉尔·琼斯：作家和历史学家，在约翰-霍普金斯大学获得博士学位。她普被授予美国福特基金会奖和国家慈善基金会奖，曾著有《南布朗克斯区兴衰史》（South Bronx Rising）和《爵士乐手、缉毒警察和白日梦》（Hep–Cats,Narcs and Pipe Dreams）。她和家人住在美国马里兰州的巴尔的摩市。

Network revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today. In an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions-in communications, business, and many areas of daily life-are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times ...(展开全部)

An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration o...(展开全部)