约翰·F. 瓦希克（John F. Wasik），美国杰出财经记者，彭博社专栏作家，出版19部著作，其专栏文章和深度报道共获18种奖项，被世界五大洲400多家媒体刊载。 译者徐丹，上海海事大学英美文学硕士，现为自由译者。

约翰·F. 瓦希克（John F. Wasik），美国杰出财经记者，彭博社专栏作家，出版19部著作，其专栏文章和深度报道共获18种奖项，被世界五大洲400多家媒体刊载。 译者徐丹，上海海事大学英美文学硕士，现为自由译者。

约翰·F. 瓦希克（John F. Wasik），美国杰出财经记者，彭博社专栏作家，出版19部著作，其专栏文章和深度报道共获18种奖项，被世界五大洲400多家媒体刊载。 译者徐丹，上海海事大学英美文学硕士，现为自由译者。

约翰·F. 瓦希克（John F. Wasik），美国杰出财经记者，彭博社专栏作家，出版19部著作，其专栏文章和深度报道共获18种奖项，被世界五大洲400多家媒体刊载。 译者徐丹，上海海事大学英美文学硕士，现为自由译者。

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentiet...(展开全部)

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentiet...(展开全部)

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked th...(展开全部)

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked th...(展开全部)

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jeffe...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)