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)

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)

On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was 146—123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York ...(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)

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — dra...(展开全部)

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw mat...(展开全部)

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — dra...(展开全部)

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw mat...(展开全部)