'...a tour de force...prepare to be amazed' - John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group. A bold new look at the continuing era of prosperity - how we got here, and where we could be headed. Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam engines and flying machines that Da Vinci sketched? What kept the master metallurgists of ancient Rome from discovering electricit...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

【英】西蒙·温切斯特 ◎洞见深刻的历史学家与思想家。牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院名誉研究员。2006 年，获得了英国女王亲自颁发的大英帝国勋章。2016 年，荣获加拿大皇家地理学会劳伦斯•伯比勋章，并当选为院士。曾任《卫报》海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》海外特派员，长期为《纽约时报》《国家地理》《卫报》及BBC等媒体撰稿。 ◎精密制造先行者，照亮智能制造未来的“点火者”。深入研究了精密制造250年跌宕起伏的发展历程，掀起了一场对精密制造改变世界大问题的深刻探讨：完美从时间中诞生，现代世界从精确中涌现。 ◎屡登榜首的畅销书作家，其作品屡屡登上《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》等畅销榜。作品选题涉猎广泛，尤其擅长叙事；写作视角独树一帜，能用渊博的知识给读者带来独特的阅读体验，著有《教授与疯子》《天才与狂徒》等广为人知的图书。 ◎闻名遐迩的探险家。毕业于牛津大学地质学系，地...(展开全部)

【英】西蒙·温切斯特 ◎洞见深刻的历史学家与思想家。牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院名誉研究员。2006 年，获得了英国女王亲自颁发的大英帝国勋章。2016 年，荣获加拿大皇家地理学会劳伦斯•伯比勋章，并当选为院士。曾任《卫报》海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》海外特派员，长期为《纽约时报》《国家地理》《卫报》及BBC等媒体撰稿。 ◎精密制造先行者，照亮智能制造未来的“点火者”。深入研究了精密制造250年跌宕起伏的发展历程，掀起了一场对精密制造改变世界大问题的深刻探讨：完美从时间中诞生，现代世界从精确中涌现。 ◎屡登榜首的畅销书作家，其作品屡屡登上《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》等畅销榜。作品选题涉猎广泛，尤其擅长叙事；写作视角独树一帜，能用渊博的知识给读者带来独特的阅读体验，著有《教授与疯子》《天才与狂徒》等广为人知的图书。 ◎闻名遐迩的探险家。毕业于牛津大学地质学系，地...(展开全部)

Discusses the dichotomy of artistic thought that led to the evolution of modern painting, as perceived by the new art's Salon des Refuses and the Paris art world of 1863

It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, Ren Gunon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles-pa...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)