尼尔•弗格森 《时代周刊》“影响世界的100人”之一英国最著名的历史学家之一在历史、金融、媒体领域负有盛名的跨界学术专家哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员清华大学苏世民学院荣誉研究员罗斯柴尔德家族史研究权威著有《广场与高塔》《基辛格》《文明》《帝国》《金钱关系》《货币崛起》等超级畅销书

你所知道的歷史，都有可能是錯的！ 《貨幣崛起》與《文明》作者尼爾．弗格森帶來一個想像世界的全新方式 「尼爾．弗格森是他這時代中最傑出的英國歷史學者」—《泰晤士報》 大部分的歷史是階級制的：它是關於教宗、總統和總理的。如果這只是因為他們創造了歷史檔案呢？如果我們失去了同樣強大但被屏蔽的網絡該怎麼辦？–這些問題不該只留給陰謀論者，即便他們幻想光明會在背後壟斷世界政權？ 世界由兩個不同的力量組織而成：階級和網絡 21世紀被稱為網路時代。但在本書中，尼爾．弗格森認為社群網路並非新玩意。從造成宗教改革的印刷工人與傳教士到帶領美國革命的共濟會成員，他們都是破壞教宗與國王舊秩序的網絡成員。在我們進行中的歷史，已來到第二次網絡時代，電腦扮演著印刷工人的重要角色。一但我們明白這一點，過去和未來，看起來將非常不同。 「強大的、節奏明快的敘述」–《衛報》 尼爾．弗格森帶我...(展开全部)

What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally p...(展开全部)

Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet. Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many...(展开全部)

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squ...(展开全部)

Grade 1-6. Thompson creates a futuristic world in which the Earth is shrouded in a yellow, polluted mist and only the "weakest wash of sunshine" comes through. The richest man in the world and his grandson set out to penetrate the fog in order to see the sun. Collecting buildings from every continent, they spend years fabricating a tower. Finally, the leaning tower of Pisa is s...(展开全部)

The international bestseller chosen as Book of the Year by The Times, Evening Standard, Economist, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Herald, Observer, Guardian and New Statesman. "The most detailed [and thrilling] account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the twin towers." --- Observer, Book of the Year "Possibly the best book yet written on the ris...(展开全部)

Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie . Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live t...(展开全部)

Only recently did mankind realise that it resides in a world of networks. The Internet and World Wide Web are changing our life. Our physical existence is based on various biological networks. We have recently learned that the term "network" turns out to be a central notion in our time, and the consequent explosion of interest in networks is a social and cultural phenomenon. Th...(展开全部)

约翰·麦克莱兰(John S.McClelland)，英国政治学家，曾在英美几所大学执教，著有《西方政治思想史》、《群众与暴民：从柏拉图到卡内蒂》、《法国的右派》等。其《西方政治思想史》已推出中文简、繁两种版本，在中国知识界、思想界享有盛誉。