What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question -- in all its shades of meaning -- can unlock the most intractable riddles of both business and culture. And for the past few years, that's exactly what Google has been doing. Jumping into the game long after Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and other pioneers, Google offered a ...(展开全部)

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched ...(展开全部)

里德·哈斯廷斯（Reed Hastings） 网飞公司创始人、董事会主席、首席执行官，20《财富》杂志“年度商业人物”，《时代》周刊“全球最具影响力人物”，Hired网站“全球科技业最鼓舞人心的领导者”。1983年获得鲍登学院学士学位，1988年获得斯坦福大学计算机专业硕士学位。在此期间，曾作为和平队成员前往非洲支教。他的第一家公司Pure Software成立于1991年，于1995年上市。在以7.5亿美元出售Pure Software的同年，他联合创立了网飞，并于1999年起担任董事会主席兼首席执行官至今。作为一名杰出的企业家，他对整个娱乐业的发展与变革起到了巨大的推动作用。同时，他还是一位活跃的教育慈善家，担任过包括Dreambox Learning、KIPP和Pahara在内的多家教育机构的董事会成员，并于2020年向为有色人种学生提供高等教...(展开全部)

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

Book Description Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors' and Ford's combined, its ...(展开全部)

LEGO is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children. What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003. Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danish family-owned company that enjoyed decades of success before its inability to keep in step with a rapidly changing market brought it ...(展开全部)

Lego is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children. What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003 before staging an astonishing recovery. Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danish family-owned company that enjoyed decades of success before its inability to keep in step wit...(展开全部)