传记
My Life in Red and White Douban
author: Arsene Wenger publishing house: W&N 2020 - 10
For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his own story. He opens up about his life, sharing principles for success on and off the field with lessons on leadership, and vivid tales of his 22 years managing Arsenal to unprecedented success. There, Wenger won multiple Premier League championships and a record number of FA Cups, and his teams included the Invincibles of 2003-2004 and a record-breaking undefeated 49-match run. He popularised an attacking approach and belief that the game should be entertaining but he also changed the attitudes of British football fans towards players' diet, fitness and coaching methods - and towards foreign managers too.
In My Life in Red and White, Wenger charts his extraordinary career, including his rise in France and Japan where he managed Nancy, Monaco and Nagoya Grampus Eight (clubs that also play in red-and-white, like Arsenal!) to his 22 years at the helm of an internationally renowned club from 1996 onwards. He describes the unrest that led to his resignation in 2018, and his current role as Chief of Global Football Development for FIFA. He offers studious reflections on the game and his groundbreaking approach to motivation, mindset, fitness and football that was often beautiful to watch.
This book is a must-read for not only Arsenal fans but football fans everywhere, for management and business leaders, and anyone seeking the tools for success in work and life. It will illuminate the mystique surrounding one of the most revered and successful manager's life story, strategy and vision in the world's most popular sport.
July 10, 2026 read
“What matters, I think, is that you retain your childlike soul and never lose sight of your dreams: what are they, what do you need technically to make them come true; discard any negative ideas that might prevent you from getting there, and above all commit completely.”

这书放在书架上五年多了,跟着自己搬过两次家。现在阿森纳拿下阔别22年的冠军,自己才觉得终于可以读了。很少有人能把诗意浪漫和睿智犀利的视角用简洁的文字表达出来。有如散文一般的自传,是温格对足球和红白深沉的热爱...而一位70岁老人见证的足球的风云变化,也是某个角度时代变迁的岁月史书。
传记 English
A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edittion Douban
author: Evelyn Fox Keller publishing house: Times Books 1984 - 2
For much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock's tireless analysis of corn led her to uncover some of the deepest, most intricate secrets of genetic organization. Nearly forty years later, her insights would bring her a MacArthur Foundation grant, the Nobel Prize, and long overdue recognition. At her recent death at age 90, she was widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in 20th-century science. Evelyn Fox Keller's acclaimed biography, "A Feeling for the Organism," gives us the full story of McClintock's pioneering--although sometimes professionally difficult--career in cytology and genetics. The book now appears in a special edition marking the 10th anniversary of its original publication.
Dec. 18, 2022 read
转座子的发现人Barbara McClintock的传记,成书于40年前她获得诺贝尔奖之前,作者自己也是一位物理学家转科学史学家同时也是女权主义者——所以非常难得的既是一本详实的传记,一本历史书,一本探讨科学思想和哲学发展的书,一本记录一位科学家细腻思考和感受的书。我的浅薄让我无法从内容上进行评论,但是读的过程中几次流泪。方才发现,自己的想法和坚持并不孤独。
传记 English
Einstein Douban
author: Walter Isaacson publishing house: Recorded Books 2007
How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk, a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate, became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.
These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
May 18, 2020 read
读完了,不管是人物的部分还是历史的部分都非常精彩。在传奇的色彩背后更能发现天才不过也是凡人。
English Walter_Isaacson 传记
Pep Guardiola Douban
author: Martí Perarnau publishing house: Arena Sport 2016 - 11
For three extraordinary seasons at Bayern Munich, Marti Perarnau was given total access around the German super club - to its players, its backroom staff, its board members and, above all, to its manager, Pep Guardiola. In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed account of Guardiola's first full season at Bayern, Pep Confidential, Perarnau now lifts the lid on the Catalan's whole tenure in Bavaria.
Pep Guardiola: The Evolution takes the reader on a journey through three action packed seasons as Bayern smashed domestic records yet struggled to emulate that dominance in Europe, analysing Guardiola's management style through key moments on and off the field. Perarnau reveals how Guardiola improved as a manager at Bayern despite failing to land the ultimate prize in European football, examines his decision to leave Germany to take up the challenge at Manchester City and how his managerial style will continue to evolve in the Premier League.
This is more than the story of three seasons with one of the biggest clubs in the game. It is a portrait and analysis of a manager and the footballing philosophies that have beguiled the world.
Feb. 2, 2020 read
虽然书封是曼城蓝,内容大部分是瓜在拜仁的战术和管理理念的革新。和作者的上一本相比技术性的东西太多,趣味差些。从一个个小片段中品味瓜这个人的优缺点和魅力还是很值的。每个小节对一些名言的引用还是很受用。“Romatic rationalist“确实是对瓜最贴切的描述了。
English 体育 传记
Gene Machine Douban
author: Venki Ramakrishnan publishing house: Basic Books 2018 - 11
A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule
"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."
--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome--an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms--that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases. But this is also a human story of Ramakrishnan's unlikely journey, from his first fumbling experiments in a biology lab to being the dark horse in a fierce competition with some of the world's best scientists. In the end, Gene Machine is a frank insider's account of the pursuit of high-stakes science.
Oct. 25, 2018 read
Inspiring! “science is a marketplace for ideas" 以Venki自己的视点回眸了整个核糖体结构的发展竞争,文笔诙谐幽默,种种幕后故事扣人心弦。哪里有名利哪里就有名利场嘛。。。比较邪乎的两个收获:一个是阅读Catch-22有助于提升幽默感眼光和文笔;一个是作为Anglophile的自豪感(啥)
English 哲学 传记 历史
Pep Confidential Douban
author: Marti Perarnau publishing house: Arena Sport 2014 - 10
May 15, 2018 read
严格说不算传记;大章节的引言和卡斯帕罗夫真是亮点——“culture clash"可能是最隐晦的描述瓜瓜在德国有多困难的方法了。”I am a complete nobody if I'm not performing at my very, very best. I worry about everything and am secure about nothing."
English 体育 传记
ARSENE WENGER Douban
author: John Cross 2015 - 9
In this fascinating account of Arsene Wenger's reign as manager of Arsenal and the methods he has used to keep the club at the top, John Cross has spoken to everyone from board members to players and backroom staff to build the most complete portrait of the man and his management style, and the club he has inspired for almost 20 years.
When Wenger arrived at Arsenal in 1996, he was little known to fans at the club and many doubted he could bring back the glory days of George Graham. But soon he was transforming the way the team played, melding the famous English defensive spine of Adams, Keown, Dixon, Winterburn and Seaman with a hugely creative foreign attacking spirit, epitomised by Dennis Bergkamp, Thierry Henry and Robert Pires. At the same time, he introduced new ideas on diet, fitness and professionalism, which many players believe extended their careers.
Having won numerous trophies, and led the Invincibles to an unbeaten league season in 2003-04, Wenger then had to help the club through the next stage of their development when they moved from Highbury to the Emirates. Despite the financial constraints he faced, he still managed to keep the club playing in the Champions League year after year while remaining true to his philosophy of how the game should be played. Furthermore, he once again began to build a trophy-winning squad, winning back-to-back FA Cups in 2014 and 2015, that was admired by football fans everywhere.
Oct. 22, 2016 read
JC写的还是很棒的!前十年的辉煌和小故事看得很开心,11-16这几年转会背后的内幕看得五味杂陈。
English 体育 传记