Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. In Water, Steven Solomon offers the first-ever narrative portrait of the power struggles, personalities, and breakthroughs that have sh...(展开全部)

Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century's decisive, looming challenges, driving new political, economic, and envi...(展开全部)

丹尼尔•耶金不论是在国际问题或是石油产业的研究上，都是当今全球顶级的权威专家。他是美国剑桥能源研究会主席、美国政府思想库布鲁金斯学会理事会成员、外交关系委员会研究委员会成员等诸多职位在身的美国重要影响人物之一。曾因其经典作品《奖赏》荣获普利策大奖，除此之外，他还写过两部著作——《粉碎的和平》与《能源的未来：哈佛商业学院能源项目报告》，前者成为探讨冷战起源的经典巨著，而后者在欧美、日本也都广受欢迎。

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)

Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Denmark and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans’ f...(展开全部)

Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Denmark and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans’ f...(展开全部)

Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. Beginning with the first oil well of t...(展开全部)

Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. Beginning with the first oil well of t...(展开全部)