In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Indeed, these were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997, when Marc Randolph had an idea. It was a simple thought—leveraging the internet to rent movies—and was just one of many more and far worse proposals, like personalized baseball bats and a shampoo delivery service, that Randolph would pitch to his business partner, Reed Hastings, on their commute to work each morning. But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair—with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO—founded a company. Now with over 150 million subscribers, Netflix's triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century's most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to the now-infamous meeting when Netflix brass pitched Blockbuster to acquire them, Marc Randolph's transformational journey exemplifies how anyone with grit, gut instincts, and determination can change the world—even with an idea that many think will never work. What emerges, though, isn't just the inside story of one of the world's most iconic companies. Full of counter-intuitive concepts and written in binge-worthy prose, it answers some of our most fundamental questions about taking that leap of faith in business or in life: How do you begin? How do you weather disappointment and failure? How do you deal with success? What even is success? From idea generation to team building to knowing when it's time to let go, That Will Never Work is not only the ultimate follow-your-dreams parable, but also one of the most dramatic and insightful entrepreneurial stories of our time.

“This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”
- Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.
Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.

该剧根据Mick Herron的同名系列小说改编，讲述一队英国情报人员在军情五处的一个垃圾倾倒场Slough House工作。奥德曼饰演才华横溢但脾气暴躁的间谍首领杰克森，因犯错导致职业生涯结束而被关进了这里。

比诗更像诗的十封信，你我都是青年诗人。
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20世纪最伟大的德语诗人之一里尔克写给青年诗人的信，关于诗歌、人生、孤独、自我、职业，诗意对谈。
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里尔克的精神知音，著名翻译家、诗人冯至经典译本，全新再版。
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全书经冯至先生之女冯姚平女士以及师承于冯至先生的德语翻译家韩耀成先生指导校正。
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里尔克留给我们这样十封给青年诗人的信。
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“里尔克除却他诗人的天职外,还是一个永不疲倦的书简家;
这十封信浑然天成,无形中自有首尾;向着青年说得最多。”
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如何成为一个诗人，如何面对寂寞，如何解决职业的苦恼？
二十岁的年轻人致信诗人里尔克，倾吐生活的种种疑惑不安。
同样年轻的诗人如何给出答案？
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十封里尔克的信完整呈现，特别收入里尔克诗作十八首；
特别附录冯至论里尔克四篇及里尔克作品节选两篇。
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“第一次读到这一小册书信时，觉得字字都好似从自己心里流出来，又流回到自己的心里。感到一种满足，一种兴奋。”“里尔克是一个稀有的书简家，……几年来，这几册书简每每是我最寂寞、最彷徨时候的伴侣。”——冯至
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冯至是中国最为杰出的抒情诗人。——鲁迅
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在我们的时代，纯粹的诗人是罕见的，但也许更为罕见的是纯粹的诗人存在，一种完整的生活方式。——茨威格
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里尔克凭借着《杜伊诺哀歌》和《给青年诗人的信》获得了显赫的声名。——《纽约时报书评》

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries.
Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, where the term Orwellian aptly describes the life endured by the country's people. A truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself.