Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)

辛西娅•斯托克斯•布朗（Cynthia Stokes Brown） 历史学家，国际大历史协会（IBHA）创会委员，公认的“讲述大历史的大师”。 早年在杜克大学获得历史学本科学位，在约翰•霍普金斯大学获得硕士和博士学位。著有《与过去联结》等多部历史作品，她的写作兼具文采与才气，曾三次荣获美国图书奖。 她长期致力于“大历史”的研究与普及工作，和国际大历史协会创会主席大卫•克里斯蒂安一起，历时近30年让大历史风靡全球。 在她的支持和鼓励下，多米尼加大学成为第一所将大历史课程作为大一新生必修课的大学。在总结20多年教学实践基础上，她和大卫•克里斯蒂安、克雷格•本杰明合著了大历史的第一本大学教材《大历史：从虚无到万物》，这本书已经成为近百所欧美大学指定教材。2012年比尔•盖茨斥资千万美元，在全球范围推广“大历史教学项目”（Big History Projec...(展开全部)

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment, account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia and the corridors of Washington, "Too Big to Fail" is the definitive story of the most powerful men and ...(展开全部)

An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the mo...(展开全部)

Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Big Switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The...(展开全部)

An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the mo...(展开全部)

Book Description The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for underst...(展开全部)

The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain t...(展开全部)

This book is for you if you are a data scientist, big data professional, or novice who has basic knowledge of big data and wish to get proficiency in Artificial Intelligence techniques for big data. Some competence in mathematics is an added advantage in the field of elementary linear algebra and calculus.