历史
Hidden Figures (2016)
Hidden Figures
★ 8.3 671 ratings
other title: 隐藏人物 / 隱藏人物 …
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
古典传统
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature Douban
★ 9.7 15 ratings
[美]吉尔伯特·海厄特(Gilbert Highet) translator: 王晨 publishing house: 北京联合出版公司 2015 - 10
哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿、中国人民大学教授联合推荐 比较文学领域、古典文化接受史领域里程碑式著作 一部紧扣主脉、细节饱满、层次丰富的西方文学史 【推荐】 海厄特的大著是一部地道的欧洲文学史,它当然有助于我们更好地认识欧洲文明,但在我看来,这部出色的著作其实更有助于我们更好地认识中国文明。 ——刘小枫,中国人民大学文学院教授,中山大学“逸仙学者”讲座教授 我希望海厄特的中国读者通过这本著作,让“我们”的文化也“从希腊人那里学会了思想生活的重要性……和唯一不朽的财富:灵魂”。 ——雷立柏,中国人民大学文学院教授 海厄特不太可能把我看做他的天命读者,但在《古典传统》出版六十年后重读本书时,书中在记录古典作品对西方文学之影响时的出色编排和细节仍让我像当年一样钦佩。我与海厄特只有一面之缘,但暮年的我仍然对他的学识和热情心存感激。他的书仍然活着,并将继续活下去。 ——哈罗德·布鲁姆,耶鲁大学斯特林人文学讲座教授 重读海厄特的《古典传统》,我再一次感受到了它的魔力。与库尔提乌斯的《欧洲文学与拉丁语中世纪》一样,本书是古典学在20世纪中叶那个特定时代的一座丰碑,它饱含人文精神,立足保守态度,致力于复原遭遇纳粹暴行后显得分崩离析的西方文明。广博的内容和宏大的概览赋予了其力量。 ——斯蒂芬·格林布拉特,哈佛大学约翰·科根校级特聘人文学讲座教授 自六十多年前海厄特的著作第一次出版后,它仍是希腊罗马文学在后世的全部故事的最佳单卷本指南。《古典传统》充分展现了这段千年历史的复杂性:海厄特不仅描绘了古典著作如何塑造了后世的读者,还告诉了我们中世纪及现代的作者如何利用古典元素创作出自己的独特作品。博学、妙语频出、恪守人文主义,海厄特的著作既全面又好读。 ——安东尼·格拉夫敦,普林斯顿大学亨利·普特南校级特聘历史学讲座教授 【编辑推荐】 ⊙ 本书出版以来60多年间被翻译成多种欧洲语言与日语,早已奠定了学术经典的地位。 ⊙ 本书勾勒了古典传统影响西欧和美国文学的主要途径,范围宽广;重要作家和作品被放在与古典文化的关系下进行检视,具有其他文学史难以企及的深度。 ⊙ 全书语言博雅晓畅,没有当代文学评论的学术黑话,稍具文学史常识即可顺利阅读。 【内容简介】 本书自1949年出版以来,陆续被翻译为多种欧洲语言及日语,是比较文学领域赫拉克勒斯式的壮举,也是古典文化接受史领域的里程碑式著作。 本书的主旨是勾勒希腊语和拉丁语传统影响西欧与美国文学的主要途径。以此为线索,作者带领读者对西方文学进行了全面的考察。全书自古希腊罗马文明的衰亡和日耳曼蛮族文学在“黑暗时代”破土而生写起,描绘了直到20世纪初西方文学的发展脉络,涉及众多的人物与主题。书中谈到了奥维德对法国中世纪文学的影响、乔叟对维吉尔和西塞罗的借鉴、文艺复兴时期基督教文学与“异教”文学对抗、巴洛克时期对塞内卡的模仿及讽刺作品的重生,经过革命时代灿若星河的天才,最终落脚在现代主义的诞生和成型。 全书以博雅晓畅的语言写成,没有现代文学批评中充斥着的学术黑话,作者以轻柔而富有魅力的语调,将贯穿在西方文学传统中的核心主线向读者娓娓道来。这也许不是面面俱到的文学史,却是一部紧扣主脉、细节饱满、层次丰富的立体的文学史。
邓小平时代
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Google Books Douban Goodreads
★ 8.9 212 ratings
[美] 傅高义 translator: 冯克利 publishing house: 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2013 - 1
邓小平深刻影响了中国历史和世界历史的走向,也改变了每一当代中国人的命运。解读邓小平的政治生涯及其行为逻辑,就是解读当代中国,解读个人命运背后的历史变局。 哈佛大学傅高义教授倾十年心力完成的权威巨著《邓小平时代》,是对邓小平跌宕起伏的一生以及中国惊险崎岖的改革开放之路的全景式描述。作者对邓小平个人性格及执政风格进行了深层分析,并对中国改革开放史进行了完整而独到的阐释。书中涵盖丰富的中外档案资料和研究成果,以及为数众多的作者独家访谈。对中美建交、华国锋历史评估、改革开放的幕后曲折、邓小平和诸多当时关键人物之关系、香港问题、邓小平南巡等重大议题均有详述及剖析。本书既具学院研究的严谨专精,又对中国现实政治与事理人情有透彻把握,被誉为邓小平研究“纪念碑式”的著作。
Reading
July 4, 2015
作者本人的观点太多了。但是本身内容极好,让人想不到这个年代的故事也这么有趣。
历史 中国 传记 政治
The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)
智取威虎山
★ 7.0 823 ratings
徐克 actor: 张涵予 / 梁家辉 …
other title: 智取威虎山 / 智取威虎山3D …
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
Watched
Jan. 5, 2015
感觉是一部装自己是猎奇的爆米花片子。。领便当的好几个都穿运动鞋!还有一个个的都不戴手套怎么回事?
动作 改编 历史 中国大陆
香港企业购并经典
Douban
冯邦彦 2008 - 4
《香港企业购并经典》既可视为一部香港30年来企业收购兼并的历史,亦可作为收购兼并的个案分析教材。倘若读者能从中获益,笔者将深感欣慰。踏入20世纪90年代,随着中资崛起,部分跟风进去的中资大企业,如中信泰富等,先后展开对恒昌、美丽华酒店的收购战,挟巨资的国有企业如首钢、中航等,亦在香港大展身手。与此同时,已晋身跨国企业之列的东南亚华侨财团亦不甘人后,先后策动海托、亚证、电视企业等一系列收购合并。1997年亚洲金融风暴骤起,其后对香港经济造成空前的冲击,香港企业收购兼并再次风起云涌,其中,最瞩目的当数李嘉诚的二子李泽楷旗下的盈科所策动的香港电讯的收购。
Asian Godfathers
Douban
Joe Studwell publishing house: Grove Press 2008 - 9
The economies of Hong Kong and south-east Asia are dominated by only forty or fifty families. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from gambling to lumber. At their peak, eight of the world's two dozen richest families were south-east Asian, yet they are largely unknown outside the region. A complex mythology surrounds them, one which informs Asian views on culture, entrepreneurialism and economics. In this explosive account, Joe Studwell finds that the facts are even more remarkable than the myths, as he lifts the lid on a world of hypocrisy, power and enormous wealth.This tour of Asia's richest includes Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, the king of the billionaires; Stanley Ho, casino mogul, father of seventeen and flamboyant ballroom dancer; Malaysia's Lim Goh Tong, creator of the vast Genting Highlands casino; Indonesian born-again Christian bankers; and the Philippines' Lucio Tan, a tobacco billionaire who started out as a janitor. Through the hidden lives of these mysterious and fascinating men, Studwell explores the broader economic and political issues facing a region of 500 million people: how the Asian tycoons took such a strong hold over their local economies, how they survived the Asian financial crisis that began in 1997, and what their endurance teaches us about the real state of the countries they live in.
Reading Sept. 9, 2014
Strongly recommended..$9.99 for kindle edition, you know how terrible the translation could be. Here's a general review: http://goo.gl/yYrVnY
历史 经济
新加坡史
Douban
C•玛丽•藤布尔 translator: 欧阳敏 publishing house: 东方出版中心 2013 - 7
《新加坡史》原以英文出版,已经修订过两次,出到了第三版,中译本引进的是最新版本,共分十个章节,按照时间序列,叙述了新加坡自14世纪以来直至21世纪初,政治、社会、经济和文化等各个方面的变迁,尤其着重的是其自1859年以来的近代历史。
Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate Douban Goodreads Skybridge
Robert A. Caro publishing house: Vintage 2003 - 4
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power.
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Le capital au XXIe siècle Douban Goodreads Skybridge
Thomas Piketty translator: Arthur Goldhammer publishing house: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press 2014 - 4
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
To read Aug. 6, 2014
r>g,学界的火力实在太生猛了。。
历史 经济
Street Fighters
Douban
Kate Kelly publishing house: Portfolio Hardcover 2009 - 5
Product Description The shocking fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray that it had to be sold at a fire sale price? How could the guys who ran Bear so aggressively miscalculate so completely? In this vivid and dramatic narrative, Kate Kelly takes us inside Bear’s walls during its final, frenzied 72 hours as an independent firm. Expanding with fresh detail from her acclaimed front- page series in The Wall Street Journal, she captures every sight, sound, and smell of those three unbelievable days. For decades, Bear had proudly recruited “P.S.Ds”— employees who were poor, smart, and had a deep desire to become rich. An elite family or Ivy League diploma didn’t matter. Were you willing to do almost anything to make money for the firm? Were you tough enough to be a street fighter? Bear’s leaders were arrogant and didn’t play nice. But their style had made them a fortune, and had helped Bear survive every crisis from the Great Depression to the dotcom bubble. Yet as the subprime mortgage crisis began to brew, the firm’s key executives descended into civil war. Kelly reveals fresh, never-before-told details about the moves that led to that brutal final weekend. With a style as riveting as it is enlightening, Street Fighters is the definitive account of a once-great firm’s demise, and the human folly that led to the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.
The Information
Douban Goodreads
James Gleick publishing house: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011 - 3
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius , brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject.
金融之王
Lords of Finance:the Bankers who broke the world Douban
[美] 利雅卡特·艾哈迈德 translator: 巴曙松 / 李胜利 publishing house: 中国人民大学出版社 2011 - 5
这一本介绍国际金融界大佬在大萧条中的群像著作。本书讲述了第一次世界大战后,欧洲和美国的政府和中央银行如何根据巴黎和会的安排,重建金融体系,并由此引发了20世纪30年代那场世界性的“大萧条”的故事。全书围绕英、美、德、法四个主要发达国家的中央银行行长展开,他们手握重权,力图重塑世界繁华;又个性鲜明,不少人盲目自信,最终饮恨沙场,把世界推入金融危机的深渊。本书角度独特,不仅如一部优美的传记,情节引人入胜;又如一部有独特视角的经济金融史。
还原真实的美联储
Douban
★ 8.3 12 ratings
王健 publishing house: 浙江大学出版社 2013 - 11
作为美国最高货币政策主管机关、全球最主要金融机构之一的美联储, 究竟是不是私人机构,股东是谁,利润如何分配? 谁负责制定美联储的政策? 它是否真像传说中那样可以在金融市场上呼风唤雨? 它又如何在金融危机时力挽狂澜,维持金融市场稳定? 量化宽松政策真的是美联储在滥发货币转嫁危机吗? 美国经济复苏后,美联储如何从现行政策中全身而退,又会对全球金融市场造成什么影响? 本书不仅对美联储的历史背景、政策目标、组织架构和运行机制作了客观明确的描述,而且对国内读者特别关心的有关美联储的各个问题进行剖析,提出了独到的见解;在澄清若干对美联储的常见误解之后,我们可以进一步了解美联储在全球经济和金融市场上的作用及其行事逻辑,从而进一步增强对全球市场的预见能力!
A Slave in the White House
Douban
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor publishing house: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 - 2
A New York Times bestseller, A Slave in the White House received glowing reviewsthatpraised its narrative and original research. It is the story of Paul Jennings, who was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia and moved with the Madison household staff to the White House. Jennings was a self-taught and self-made man who purchased his own freedom and penned the first ever White House memoir. Nearly two centuries later, Montpelier scholar Elizabeth Dowling Taylor uncovered the memoir. In this amazing narrative she reconstructs his lifeand hisunusual portraits of James and Dolley Madison andSenator Daniel Websterin early nineteenth century Washington, as well as the 1812 assault on British troops and Jennings' heroic saving of George Washington's portrait. Fascinating and original, this is an important contribution to American history.
落脚城市
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World Douban
★ 7.8 10 ratings
(加拿大)道格·桑德斯 translator: 陈信宏 publishing house: 上海译文出版社 2012 - 2
我们都是被城市化的一员,我们回不去故乡,也离不开城市。 从乡村到城市,全球三分之一的人口正在进行最后的大迁移。 由于从事新闻工作必须四处游历,我走访了全球五大洲二十多个国家与地区,也因此养成了一种观察城市的习惯。从重庆的六公里,到孟买和德黑兰的边缘;从圣保罗与墨西哥城的 山坡地,到巴黎、阿姆斯特丹与洛杉矶的各种社区。我发现,这些落脚于城市的乡村移民,正执着于他们想象中的城市中心,并在世界各地造就了极为相似的都会空间。 搭乘地铁和电车,或是深入城市中心不为人知的隐秘角落,我得以细细观察面前这片由乡村移民构成的城市飞地。我以“落脚城市”称呼这些地区,它们往往位于人们的视线和旅游地图之外,饱受暴力和死亡、漠视与误解,同时又充满了希望与活力。 到21世纪末,人类将成为一个完全生活在城市里的物种。 而上一次人类大迁移,用一个多世纪的城市化,为欧洲和新大陆带来了法国大革命和工业革命,并直接造成了人类在思想、治理与科技领域的彻底变革。如今,世界各地的落脚城市正在创造历史。而对这种历史的冷漠,导致了巴黎、伦敦、阿姆斯特丹持续不断的暴动与骚乱;而在亚洲、非洲与南美洲,莽撞的贫民窟清除计划,正在摧毁数以万计人的生活与未来。 这个时代的历史,其实有一大部分是由漂泊的无根之人造就而成的。 他们因为公民权遭到剥夺,于是采取极端乃至暴力的手段,以求在都市体制中取得一席之地。落脚城市,可能是下一波经济与文化盛世的诞生地,也可能是下一波重大暴力冲突的爆发地。究竟走上那条路,则完全取决于我们自己。
自然权利与历史
Natural Right and History Douban
[美国] 列奥·施特劳斯 translator: 彭刚 publishing house: 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2006 - 7
自然权利问题乃是当代政治与社会哲学中首要的议题之一,本书对这一主题进行了极其细致入微的探究;作者尤其从古典的柏拉图、亚里士多德入手,揭示出现代自然权利理论前提下所导致的自然权利的危机。 像许多伟大的思想家一样,列奥•施特劳斯致力于一些根本的思想问题凸显出西方文明中深刻的精神紧张。他对于当代思想中的实证主义、历史主义以及自由主义的批判,使他更加深入地投身于古典政治哲学的研究。
滥用之灾
Douban
劳伦特·雅克 translator: 刘镇夷 2012 - 11
《滥用之灾:该死的金融衍生品》内容简介:翻开《滥用之灾:该死的金融衍生品》,你将不但可以轻松了解那些构思巧妙的衍生产品,以及因此受累的诸多受害者的传奇故事。更重要的是,金融从业者可以学习前车之鉴,从中吸取教训,避免重蹈覆辙。 书中的每一个故事都有独特之处,描述了各公司如何根据自身情况使用不同的衍生工具。这些金融衍生工具形式各异,但导致灾难产生的原因却在各个故事中共同得到体现:漏洞百出的金融工程,掉以轻心的审计过程,设计不当的风险管理机制,松松垮垮的公司治理,毫无新意的诈骗手段等;当然,人性中的贪婪与赌徒心理在其中起到不可忽视的重要作用。金融专家劳伦特•雅克追溯金融衍生工具滥用历史轨迹,为你揭开金融衍生工具的神秘面纱。
Reading
Nov. 28, 2013
有种教科书扩展阅读的感觉。。。非常详细
金融 经济 历史
南画十六观
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朱良志 publishing house: 北京大学出版社 2013 - 9
文人画是中国传统艺术的精华,是一个至今仍引起兴趣、具有研究价值的问题。本书不是平面研究文人画,不是梳理文人画发展的历史,而是选择文人画发展中的一个问题——"真性"来集中讨论,这是文人画发展过程中带有根本性的问题,以突显对形成文人画的本质因素——人的内在精神气质的关注。 本书共十六章,选择十六位画家,以他们的作品和艺术活动为线索,每章集中讨论一个关系文人画全局的关键性问题。如通过明代画家陈洪绶,集中讨论"高古"问题。十六位画家,就是十六个观照点,合而形成对文人画追求真性的总体表述。全书秉承作者一贯寓深邃思想于优美表述中的书写方式,深具可读性。
黄金简史
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彼得·L.伯恩斯坦 publishing house: 上海财经大学出版社 2008 - 8
《黄金简史》一书,用黄金的历史作架构,以丰富精彩的内容,向读者展开了一幅浸染着几千年来人类贪婪本性与文明发展交织融合的历史画卷——从可怜的、为黄金所淹没的迈达斯国王,到每年将与其体重等蘑的黄金拿去送人的阿里•汉;从斯基泰人华丽灿烂的黄金装饰,到南美洲阴冷潮湿的淘金矿井;从犹太人围之起舞的小金牛,到纽约联邦储备银行的地下金库;从孟加拉的街市,到伦敦的金融市场……读者徜徉其中,一边阅历着黄金在各种历史时期角色的变换,一边慨叹着人类的睿智和命运,似乎永远超越不了黄金的不朽光芒。 美国国家历史博物馆名誉主席罗格•G.肯尼迪(Roger G.Kennedy)认为“能够拜读如此大作,深感荣幸”,并“为伯恩斯坦广博的知识深深折服”。 哈佛大学经济学教授、著名经济学家约翰•肯尼斯•加尔布雷思(JohnKenneth Galbraith)认为《黄金简史》不仅“妙笔生花”,而且还提供了“一个非常精彩有趣的视角——不仅关乎黄金,而且涉及更为宏大的经济史”。 美联储前主席保罗•A.沃尔克(Paul A.Volcker)给予此书很高的评价:“无论是对个人,还是对国家而言,黄金,因其壮观的历史场面和神奇的情节,在任何时候都具有无法消除的魔力。彼得•伯恩斯坦完成了这项挑战,他独辟蹊径,呈现给我们一部优秀的读物,令我们不仪掩卷沉思,更有深刻的反省。” 2008年1月2日,国际市场黄金期货交易价格上涨至每盎司860美元,成功突破了1980年1月21日创下的850美元/盎司的历史峰位;3月14日,其交易价格更是突破了1000美元/盎司的整数大关。国际社会为之震惊,黄金投资成为举世瞩目的焦点! 是的,早在公元前5世纪,古希腊抒情诗人品达(Pindar)就说过:“黄金是宙斯之子。” 作为贵金属,黄金见证了从古至今人们经久不衰的贪婪与恐惧、迷恋与困扰。