In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the world’s largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and President...(展开全部)

Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means,' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims by foisting a sly parody of the genre on the unwitting editors of the cultural studies journal "Social Text", touching off a still-unabated torr...(展开全部)

"One of the best financial books of 2011." National Post John Bogle's journey from financial-industry pioneer to one of its toughest critics Arguably the greatest shareholder advocate in the history of Wall Steet, John Bogle not only created the first index mutual fund but has become the primary voice for change in an industry plagued by excess and complacency. Bogle stumbled u...(展开全部)

"One of the best financial books of 2011." National Post John Bogle's journey from financial-industry pioneer to one of its toughest critics Arguably the greatest shareholder advocate in the history of Wall Steet, John Bogle not only created the first index mutual fund but has become the primary voice for change in an industry plagued by excess and complacency. Bogle stumbled u...(展开全部)

An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colon...(展开全部)

Across four centuries and multiple continents, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansi...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗•奈特（Christopher Knight）从事广告和营销工作已长达30多年，是顾客心理学和市场研究方面的专家。他曾花7年时间研究共济会仪式(Freemasonic rituals)的起源。后来，似乎是在不经意间，奈特开始了写作生涯。迄今为止，他和罗伯特•洛马斯（Robert Lomas）已合著出版4本书。奈特的处女作《海勒姆密钥》（The Hiram Key）于1996年出版，甫一面市，便位列英国畅销书榜单前十名，并连续保持8周之久。此书已经译成37种语言，全球总销售量高达100多万册，在数个国家成为畅销书。现在，奈特把时间和精力集中于两个方面：一是担任营销顾问；二是为写书进行历史研究。 阿兰•巴特勒（Alan Butler）是执业工程师，但一直痴迷历史，是占星术和天文学方面的专家。1990年以来，他一直在研究古代文化和多神教，并对不同...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗•奈特（Christopher Knight）从事广告和营销工作已长达30多年，是顾客心理学和市场研究方面的专家。他曾花7年时间研究共济会仪式(Freemasonic rituals)的起源。后来，似乎是在不经意间，奈特开始了写作生涯。迄今为止，他和罗伯特•洛马斯（Robert Lomas）已合著出版4本书。奈特的处女作《海勒姆密钥》（The Hiram Key）于1996年出版，甫一面市，便位列英国畅销书榜单前十名，并连续保持8周之久。此书已经译成37种语言，全球总销售量高达100多万册，在数个国家成为畅销书。现在，奈特把时间和精力集中于两个方面：一是担任营销顾问；二是为写书进行历史研究。 阿兰•巴特勒（Alan Butler）是执业工程师，但一直痴迷历史，是占星术和天文学方面的专家。1990年以来，他一直在研究古代文化和多神教，并对不同...(展开全部)

In this graphic novel by the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Wrinkles cartoonist, three adult siblings relive old conflicts as they clear out the family vacation home after their father’s death. The graphic novel The House is at once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca’s own deceased father) and entirely universal. Three adult siblings return to their family’s vacation ...(展开全部)

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa. In segregated St. Louis sometime after...(展开全部)