In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global—the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire that includes Paramount, CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster—hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer—a lawsuit that placed Sumner’s d...(展开全部)

Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marc Ran-dolph and Reed Hastings, decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a DVD player. They were surprised and elated when launch-day traffic in April 1998 crashed their server and resulted in 150 sales. Today, Netflix has more than 25 million subscribers and annual revenues ab...(展开全部)

The Mongol Empire was founded by Chinggis Khan in the early thirteenth century. Within the span of two generations it embraced most of Asia, thus becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued for many generations, in the Middle East, present-day Russia, Central Asia and China. It left ...(展开全部)

The Mongol Empire was founded by Chinggis Khan in the early thirteenth century. Within the span of two generations it embraced most of Asia, thus becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued for many generations, in the Middle East, present-day Russia, Central Asia and China. It left ...(展开全部)

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire whic...(展开全部)

汤姆·霍兰（Tom Holland）英国畅销历史作家，尤其擅长古典历史文学写作。他曾就读于剑桥大学，取得了英语、拉丁语两科一等荣誉学位。 汤姆·霍兰著有多部畅销历史作品，他的代表作《卢比孔河》与《波斯战火》出版后，被《星期日泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《独立报》《卫报》《观察家报》等多家媒体评选为年度最佳图书，《卢比孔河》被授予赫塞尔—蒂尔特曼历史学奖，并被提名塞缪尔·约翰逊奖，《波斯战火》被授予“朗西曼奖”。 汤姆·霍兰为英国广播公司第4频道改编过《荷马》《希罗多德》《修昔底德》《维吉尔》等历史节目，为“企鹅古典系列”翻译过希罗多德《历史》。他曾担任英国作家协会主席，目前是英国古典协会委员。

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire whic...(展开全部)

汤姆·霍兰（Tom Holland）英国畅销历史作家，尤其擅长古典历史文学写作。他曾就读于剑桥大学，取得了英语、拉丁语两科一等荣誉学位。 汤姆·霍兰著有多部畅销历史作品，他的代表作《卢比孔河》与《波斯战火》出版后，被《星期日泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《独立报》《卫报》《观察家报》等多家媒体评选为年度最佳图书，《卢比孔河》被授予赫塞尔—蒂尔特曼历史学奖，并被提名塞缪尔·约翰逊奖，《波斯战火》被授予“朗西曼奖”。 汤姆·霍兰为英国广播公司第4频道改编过《荷马》《希罗多德》《修昔底德》《维吉尔》等历史节目，为“企鹅古典系列”翻译过希罗多德《历史》。他曾担任英国作家协会主席，目前是英国古典协会委员。

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)