Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now....(展开全部)

Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now....(展开全部)

尼尔•弗格森，英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授、牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员，同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有畅销书《帝国》、《虚拟的历史》、《顶级金融家》、《纸与铁》、《金钱交易》、《战争的悲悯》、《巨人》、《货币崛起》、《罗斯柴尔德家族》，同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外，他还为第四频道撰写并制作了五部非常成功的电视纪录片：《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》、《货币崛起》和《文明》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gun...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of Americas foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American powermilitary, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and show...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of Americas foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American powermilitary, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and show...(展开全部)

尼尔•弗格森，英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授、牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员，同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有畅销书《帝国》、《虚拟的历史》、《顶级金融家》、《纸与铁》、《金钱交易》、《战争的悲悯》、《巨人》、《货币崛起》、《罗斯柴尔德家族》，同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外，他还为第四频道撰写并制作了五部非常成功的电视纪录片：《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》、《货币崛起》和《文明》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gun...(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)

"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)