Book Description The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for underst...(展开全部)

The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain t...(展开全部)

丹尼尔・耶全 美国知名作家，国际政治和经济问题权威，以全球化理论研究见长。现任剑桥能源研究所上任，全球决策集团副主席。他于1992年以《奖赏：一部追逐石油、金钱和权力的史诗》一书荣获普利策奖（非虚构类作品）。他还著有《破碎的和平：论冷战的起源》、《能源未来》和《俄罗斯2010》等多部作品。《制高点》是他和斯坦尼斯岁合作的新著。《华尔街日报》评论说，再也找不到比这更好的对二战后世界经济和政治命运的描述。《洛杉矾时报》评论该书有“无法抵挡的可读性”。 约瑟夫・斯坦尼斯罗 国际政治和经济问题高级顾问，现任剑桥能源研究所欧洲办事处主任。毕业于剑桥大学和爱丁堡大学，曾在剑桥大学执教。

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire whic...(展开全部)

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire whic...(展开全部)

汤姆·霍兰（Tom Holland）英国畅销历史作家，尤其擅长古典历史文学写作。他曾就读于剑桥大学，取得了英语、拉丁语两科一等荣誉学位。 汤姆·霍兰著有多部畅销历史作品，他的代表作《卢比孔河》与《波斯战火》出版后，被《星期日泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《独立报》《卫报》《观察家报》等多家媒体评选为年度最佳图书，《卢比孔河》被授予赫塞尔—蒂尔特曼历史学奖，并被提名塞缪尔·约翰逊奖，《波斯战火》被授予“朗西曼奖”。 汤姆·霍兰为英国广播公司第4频道改编过《荷马》《希罗多德》《修昔底德》《维吉尔》等历史节目，为“企鹅古典系列”翻译过希罗多德《历史》。他曾担任英国作家协会主席，目前是英国古典协会委员。

汤姆·霍兰（Tom Holland）英国畅销历史作家，尤其擅长古典历史文学写作。他曾就读于剑桥大学，取得了英语、拉丁语两科一等荣誉学位。 汤姆·霍兰著有多部畅销历史作品，他的代表作《卢比孔河》与《波斯战火》出版后，被《星期日泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《独立报》《卫报》《观察家报》等多家媒体评选为年度最佳图书，《卢比孔河》被授予赫塞尔—蒂尔特曼历史学奖，并被提名塞缪尔·约翰逊奖，《波斯战火》被授予“朗西曼奖”。 汤姆·霍兰为英国广播公司第4频道改编过《荷马》《希罗多德》《修昔底德》《维吉尔》等历史节目，为“企鹅古典系列”翻译过希罗多德《历史》。他曾担任英国作家协会主席，目前是英国古典协会委员。

How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion). To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Pa...(展开全部)

The Battle for Investment Survival is a tribute to the long-term and incredible opportunities of the market as much as it is a guide to protect investors from common mistakes and pitfalls. Gerald Loeb's timeless and profound insights are sprinkled with humorous allusions and good-natured bluntness. Recommended for investors by investors, this is a book that every reader can lea...(展开全部)

The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich -- newly in print for the 50th anniversary of VE Day. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and brought the Nazi leviathan to its downfall. It was also...(展开全部)