"The Simpsons" is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and layered humor resounded deeply with audiences both young and old who wanted more from their entertainment than what was being meted out at the time by the likes of "Full House," "Growing Pains," and "Family Matters." Sp...(展开全部)

From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions. What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional un...(展开全部)

With unprecedented access, Tom Shales and James Miller, with authorization from Lorne Michaels, have interviewed the stars, writers, crews, and guests who have made Saturday Night Live the greatest long-running comedy of all time. Out of these backstage stories they have woven an oral history that will be the definitive account of the shows 25-year history. The story is burstin...(展开全部)

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" (Elle). "Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled read...(展开全部)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information? The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating a...(展开全部)

莱格斯·麦克尼尔，《朋克》杂志创始人之一，Spin杂志高级编辑，纽约朋克文化圈传奇人物之一，有《另一个好莱坞》等著作多部。 吉里安·麦凯恩，圣马可教堂颂诗活动节目协调人，《颂诗活动通讯》编辑，著有《倾斜》等诗集。

"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two decades. It will take us all back to our roots in the counterculture, and will remind us of the true nature of the innovation process, before we tried to tame it with slogans and buzzwords." -- Po Bronson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift and Nurtureshock A candid, colorful, ...(展开全部)

In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan,a leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of these writers as primarily a social group of friends, tracing their origins together during the World War II years to the full blossoming of their notoriety in the late 1950s to their profound influence on the social upheaval...(展开全部)

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen d...(展开全部)

作者簡介 休•甘迺迪Hugh Kennedy 資深著名伊斯蘭研究學者。倫敦大學亞非學院語言與文化系阿拉伯語文教授，英國學院和皇家學院研究員。他是研究哈里發制度權威，從16歲開始對此主題產生興趣，出版過多本教科書等級的哈里發相關著作，如《哈里發的宮廷》（Court of the Caliphs）。二○○○年，被選為愛丁堡皇家學會院士。二○一三年，被選為英國國家學術院院士。 譯者簡介 黃煜文 1974年生。專職譯者，譯有《讀建築》、《阿拉伯人500年史》、《耶路撒冷三千年》、《我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活》等書。