在线阅读本书 Behind the headlinesone of the most talked-about business leaders in the world tells her own story By accepting the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard, an iconic company that had lost its way, Carly Fiorina confirmed her status as the most powerful businesswoman in America. But she also made herself a target for everyone who disliked her bold leadership style and resented her rapid rise. For six years, as she led HP through drastic changes and a controversial merger, Fiorina was the subject of endless analysis, debate, and speculation. She appeared on the cover of every major magazine and her every word was scrutinized. Yet in all that time, the public never got to know the person behind the persona. Tough Choices will finally reveal the real Carly Fiorina, who writes with brutal honesty about her triumphs and failures, her deepest fears and most painful confrontationsincluding her sudden and very public firing by HPs board of directors. Its an amazing life story: Fiorina was a liberal arts major and law school dropout who didnt even consider a business career until her mid-twenties. But soon she was blazing through big jobs at AT&T and then Lucent Technologies, with a growing reputation as a creative, hardworking, visionary leader. Her career path would have been remarkable for anyone, but in an industry dominated by men, it was unprecedented. Tough Choices shows what its really like to lead a major corporation in a time of great change while trying to stay true to your values. Its one womans inspiring story, along with her unique perspective on leadership, technology, globalization, sexism, and many other issues.

The official story of the most significant British band of the 90s. Now updated with fresh interviews including insights into lead singer Damon's new act, Gorillaz, that is sweeping awards on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the story of bitter rows with record companies, farcical feuds with Oasis, fist fights with each other, struggles with the bottle, foundering romances and a love-hate relationship with America. Drawing on the hours of exclusive interviews he has done with the band since their early days, Stuart Maconie offers a gripping insight into this intense, hedonistic quartet. Updated with fresh interviews including insights into Damon's award-winning new act Gorillaz. The official story of Blur, told through exclusive interviews.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America. Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay. While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light. John D. Rockefeller's story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves. From the Hardcover edition.

《试镜人生:芭芭拉(纵横美国半世纪的新闻第一夫人回忆录)》内容简介：她颠覆了过往女性只能在电视新闻中“端茶倒水”的惯例，一举坐上主播台，奠定了女性在职场上的重要地位。“百万年薪”曾把她推到风口浪尖，令她措手不及，她毫不畏惧，甚至愿意放弃主播台的位置，手握采访本奔走在世界各地，追逐事件的真想，并最终赢得作为新闻记者应得的尊重。 从一个来自波士顿的瘦小女孩，到成为美国电视新闻界最炙手可热的记者，她见证甚至间接促成了无数历史事件与政治决定。 除了瞩目的事业，她还有个叛逆桀骜的女儿。但是她不断自省，最终以积极而克制的态度让女儿和自己脱离困境，收获最甜蜜的母女之情。 一路走来，芭芭拉经历了无数风起云涌的政治事件和潮起潮落的人生起跌，但她却始终凭借对新闻事业的热爱和无比的勇气，成为人们口中经久不衰的传奇。

在线阅读本书 Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard's Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation's alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. Above all, Isaacson shows how Franklin's unwavering faith in the wisdom of the common citizen and his instinctive appreciation for the possibilities of democracy helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues and values of its middle class.

"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics, I didn't want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. And weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day, I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and illness that haunted her for decades. She alternately starved herself and binged, putting her life in danger and lying to herself and everyone around her about the depth of her illness. From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to health and happiness, ultimately falling head over heels in love with Ellen DeGeneres. In this remarkable and landmark book, she tells a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.

《容闳自传:我在中国和美国的生活》前五章缕述作者赴美国前的早期教育，以及到美国后的继续学习，先是在马萨诸塞州芒森城的芒森学校，后来在耶鲁大学。第六章从作者出国八年后重返中国开始。一向被肖成西方文明表征的西方教育，如果不能使一个东方人变化基本内在的气质，使他在面对感情和举止截然不同的人时，觉得自己倒像来自另一个世界拟的，那不就奇怪了吗？我的情况正好如此。然而，我的爱国精神和对同胞的热爱都不曾衰减；正好相反，这些都由于同情心更加强了。因此，接下去的几章专门用来阐述作者苦心孤诣地完成派遣留学生的计划；这是作者对中国永恒热爱的表现，也是作者认为改革和复兴中国的最为切实可行的办法。

內容簡介近代最著名的歷史事蹟之一即是--中國大陸從一個經歷自我滿足、反現代、社會衰敗中漸漸崛起，凝聚一股總有一天將超越美國的強大力量。蔣介石，一個專制獨裁並富有英雄色彩的名人主宰了這整個故事。蔣介石是一個近代主義者與及一個新儒家，他領導這場世界上最古老且人口稠密的大國經歷無數的流血革命、內戰和抗日戰爭。 1949年，當他被競爭對手的領導人毛澤東擊敗後，他逃往台灣，在那裡展開了另一個25年的統治，也在與中國的冷戰中發揮關鍵的功能，他更發起了鎮壓反對者的『白色恐怖』、控制通貨膨脹及貪污和進行土地改革，不僅提升台灣人民的個人所得，更提升了國人的健康與教育水準。無論是無心或有意的作為，他確實奠定了台灣發展中的民主化與現代化的中國典範。 因著參考大量的中文資料，其中還包含蔣介石的日記，《The Generalissimo》提供了最完整、最真實、最全面也最客觀的傳記。Jay Taylor完整呈現出一個極其殘酷並捉摸不定，但在國家事務中卻又是如此勇敢盡責的男人。他不僅透露蔣介石日常生活中美好的一面、也針對過去的歷史鬥爭到今日中國大陸的現代化，以及其對台灣的關係提供了深刻的觀察。

《心的指南针:爱德华•肯尼迪自传》作为肯尼迪兄弟四人最后的回忆，从二战、冷战、越南战争、美苏争霸、海湾战争、“911”恐怖袭击等一系列政治事件，对美国的复杂的政治体系、竞选制度给予了深刻解读，丘吉尔、罗斯福到克林顿、小布什、奥巴马迭次出场，对历史爱好者不啻于一场饕餮。 在这部作品中，爱德华•肯尼迪饱含了对儿时时光的回忆，对离世家人的思念，对少年孟浪的反思和自己的政治雄心，《纽约时报》将这部作品评价为“一部家族版的《光荣与梦想》”，历史价值由此可见。 点击链接进入英文版： True Compass: A Memoir

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

《安迪·格鲁夫传》讲述安迪·格鲁夫，英特尔公司前董事长和首席执行官，他是《时代》周刊的“风云人物”，美国平民成功的偶像，也是21世纪商界人士的榜样。格鲁夫的经历充满了传奇色彩。他1936年出生于匈牙利的一个犹太人家庭，他躲过了大屠杀的浩劫，却没能避开苏联的入侵。20岁那年，他逃到了美国，1968年英特尔创建时加入了该公司，1987年升为首席执行官，并引领该公司在未来的11年里以年均利润34%的增长速度使英特尔成为全球雄居榜首的公司。作为一名公认的商业史专家，作者泰德罗得到了格鲁夫的通力合作，经过广泛且细心的资料收集整理，将一个最为完整、魅力无限、色彩斑斓、才华横溢的商界天才格鲁夫呈现在读者面前。在传记中读者会了解到：青年时代的创伤是如何造就了格鲁夫的性格，他的标志性格言是：“只有偏执狂才能生存”。他是如何钻研人体动力学并把自己培养成一位杰出的管理人员，他的管理才能表现在他对管理模式的凝练：“战略转折点”、“知识权力大于职位权力”、“建设性的对抗性管理”。他是如何与英特尔的共同创始人戈登·摩尔和鲍勃·诺伊斯理清并理顺错综复杂的关系。他为什么在1994年奔腾芯片出现危机时踌躇不前，他又是如何使公司转危为安，创出更加响亮的品牌。这是一本与众不同的传记，包含了格鲁夫的人生经历、英特尔的发展历史，以及硅谷的崛起兴盛。

Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern genius who radically redirected philosophical thought in our time.

The fist, the definitive, the official story of Suede, covering their ten year career. This paperback edition has been fully updated to include recent events including the band's shock announcement they are to split...

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the world’s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term “simple.”When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett she was an insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer known for her keen perception and business acumen. Her writings on finance impressed him, and as she came to know him she realized that while much had been written on the subject of his investing style, no one had moved beyond that to explore his larger philosophy, which is bound up in a complex personality and the details of his life. Out of this came his decision to cooperate with her on the book about himself that he would never write.Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer’s questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Snowball makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffett’s legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.From the Hardcover edition.

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs's meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs's role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney's Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs's dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs's reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age-a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers.

《罗素自传》(第3卷)记叙了罗素在1944至1967年间的生活，其中介绍了他反对核武器试验、防止核战争、解决世界争端、参加和平抵抗活动等一系列事件，体现了他的和平主义主张。

As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings Einstein's experience of life, love, and intellectual discovery into brilliant focus. The book is the first biography to tackle Einstein's enormous volume of personal correspondence that heretofore had been sealed from the public, and it's hard to imagine another book that could do such a richly textured and complicated life as Einstein's the same thoughtful justice. Isaacson is a master of the form and this latest opus is at once arresting and wonderfully revelatory. --Anne Bartholomew

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly. After 9/11 Alan Greenspan knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill-channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. He begins his account on that September 11th morning, but then leaps back to his childhood, and follows the arc of his remarkable life's journey through to his more than 18-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, from 1987 to 2006, during a time of transforming change. Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy.

Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer industry with his invention of the first personal computer. As the sole inventor of the Apple I and II computers, Wozniak has enjoyed wealth, fame, and the most coveted awards an engineer can receive, and he tells his story here for the first time.