What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century. </p>
Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes the sources of Kissinger's ideas and power and explains why he pursued the policies he did. Kissinger's German-Jewish background, fears of democratic weakness, belief in the primacy of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and faith in the indispensable role America plays in the world shaped his career and his foreign policy. Suri shows how Kissinger's early years in Weimar and Nazi Germany, his experiences in the U.S. Army and at Harvard University, and his relationships with powerful patrons--including Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon--shed new light on the policymaker. </p>
Kissinger's career was a product of the global changes that made the American Century. He remains influential because his ideas are rooted so deeply in dominant assumptions about the world. In treating Kissinger fairly and critically as a historical figure, without polemical judgments, Suri provides critical context for this important figure. He illuminates the legacies of Kissinger's policies for the United States in the twenty-first century. </p>

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Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. Seven Pillars of Wisdom recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. In the words of E. M. Forster, 'Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams'. However flawed, Lawrence is one of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures. This is the greatest monument to his character and achievements.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.
For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.

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“Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.” It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.
In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve.
Here, from a man who has been called both “the Steve Jobs of investing” and “the philosopher king of the financial universe” (CIO magazine), is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.

Radical constructivism is a theory of knowing that provides a pragmatic approach to questions about reality, truth, language and human understanding. It introduces a change to many basic ideas, and consequently has a profound influence on the general attitude towards the world we experience. By generating awareness of the thinker's active role in building up concepts, the new orientation liberates the individual from spurious tethers and shows that it is ultimately ourselves who are responsible for what we think and do. To educators, the book suggests that the most important task is not to convey ready-made knowledge but to teach the art of constructing it. In this volume, Glaserfeld offers a theoretical account of radical constructivism. It is an elegantly and thoroughly argued account of this epistemological position, providing a profound analysis of its concepts. The book traces two genealogies of the theory. The first is the constructivist strand in the history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics via Jean Piaget to the present. The second is his own intellectual biography, illustrating how a number of lines of thought became synthesised into radical constructivism. Given its diverse roots, the first full articulation of the theory is likely to have an influence that extends beyond mathematics education.

In their second collaboration, biographers Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman present the story of Claude Shannon—one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century and the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He constructed the first wearable computer, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called “the Magna Carta of the Information Age.” In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Soni and Goodman reveal Claude Shannon’s full story for the first time. With unique access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and always playful genius to life.

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers."
Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits.
Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.
Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.

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From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . .
"Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual." -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
"Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger's curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era's heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer's detachment, an historian's thoroughness, and a financial writer's common sense, Lowe produces a riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of the idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure." -LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School, Author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
"For years, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and investors worldwide (me included) have struggled to learn more about Warren Buffett's cerebral sidekick. Now we can rest and enjoy reading Janet Lowe's book about this rare intellectual jewel called Charlie Munger." -ROBERT G. HAGSTROM, Author of The Warren Buffett Way
"Charlie has lived by the creed that one should live a life that doesn't need explaining. But his life should be explained. In a city where heroism is too often confused with celebrity, Charlie is a true hero and mentor. He lives the life lessons that he has studiously extracted from other true heroes and mentors, from Ben Franklin to Ben Graham. This book illuminates those life lessons." -RONALD L. OLSON, Munger, Tolles & Olson llp
"Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful."-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

《找寻真实的蒋介石》一书以美国胡佛研究院最新解密的蒋介石日记为基础。所收各文，均据蒋氏日记手稿本及大量档案、文献写成。全书将为读者揭示蒋氏早年的思想、性格及其发展，和其不为人知的内心世界；也为读者揭示近代中国的许多政治内幕。
《找寻真实的蒋介石》研究蒋氏生平、思想、活动诸多方面，力图还原在多年政治斗争中已经「迷失」的蒋氏本来面貌；因或毁容或美容，均非原貌。全书依据蒋氏日记手稿本及大量档案、文献写成，将为读者揭示蒋氏早年的思想、性格，蒋氏个人不为人知的内心世界以及对北伐与抗战的贡献；也重现近代中国许多政治内幕，如辛亥革命後刺陶（成章）案、1923年的苏联之行，中山舰事件之谜、软禁胡汉民事件、对日秘密谈判、史迪威事件的中美角力、国共重庆谈判蒋氏一度意图拘禁毛泽东的复杂心态等。书中对蒋氏的个人「绯闻」也做了澄清。

著名史学家，傅斯年、陈寅恪先生弟子何兹全与著名评论家朱大可、何三坡、陈晓明、白烨、李建军、谢有顺、葛红兵、解玺璋、张闳、唐晓渡，联袂推荐。
傅斯年先生是北大培养出来的，对北大有一种特别的感情。在他一生的事业中，除了他办中央研究院史语所，还做过北大代理校长，对北大的贡献功不可没。
陈寅恪师是继《资治通鉴》的作者、宋代司马光之后近一千年一，又一伟大的史学家。
——何兹全
这是一部不同寻常的个人传记。对傅斯年和陈寅恪的记忆，打开了被蓄意掩蔽的历史之门。他们在20世纪所遭遇的命运剧变，谱写了中国知识分子群体的哀歌。
——朱大可
就作者的写作功力和这部作品叙事方式、描述角度与文学艺术上所达到的高度而言，是21此类题材的巅峰之作。
——资深编辑家、作家杨力虹、许志龙、史奉真、杨君
本书叙述了陈寅恪与傅斯年成长、留学以及在动荡岁月中颠沛流离，执着学术事业的艰难历程，生动卓然地展现了知识分子“独立之精神，自由之意志”的理想信念，是一部反映20世纪上半页知识分子心路历程与事业追求的心灵史诗，读来感人泪下，怅然太息。
本书再现了陈寅恪追求学术独立和精神自由的曲折而辛酸的一生，他和傅斯年是20世纪波澜壮阔的时代洪流中涌现的众多大师的杰出代表。

林徽因与梁思成皆出身名门，从小受到良好教育，青年时期留学美国。受到西方先进文化的洗礼。两人学成归国后，本该大展宏图，然而，接连而来的抗日战争和国共内战，使他们的生活陷入了颠沛流离之中。尽管身处恶劣环境，他们仍不放弃对事业的追求，对生活的热爱。
林徽因在其短暂而绚丽的一生中给我们留下了许多美妙诗文，梁思成则把毕生的精力都献给了建筑事业。这本传记，以细致客观的笔触，展示了林徽因与梁思成这对伉俪的传奇人生。
费慰梅写这本书的目的，不仅是为了追述林徽因与梁思成在特殊年代的际遇和使命，也为了纪念他们的成就、创造力、仁慈，以及支撑他们勇气的幽默感。

胡适是中国近代史上著述最多、影响最大，自传材料最丰富的一个名人，同时也是最被人顾盼、窥伺、议论，却又最被人误解的一个名人。
《舍我其谁：胡适》立意重新诠释胡适的思想、全面改写胡适的一生。《璞玉成璧，1891—1917》，是这套全传的第一部。
不被胡适牵着鼻子走，用详实的材料和严谨的考证说话，澄清以往关于胡适的许多重大误会。通过比勘不同版本，阐释《四十自述》里脍炙人口的故事背后的真相；重新塑造上海时期胡适的思想状态，挖出被胡适淡出乃致完全湮灭的狭隘而狂热的民族主义，以及他修身进德的焦虑。
留美生涯是胡适一生思想形成的关键阶段，也是胡适一生中最不为人所知的一个阶段。作者孜孜矻矻，系统地描述并阐释胡适的留美生活及心路历程，言人所未言。举凡饮食起居，到他的思想履迹（从民族主义者到以爱国为基础的世界主义者，到绝对的不抵抗主义，再到国际仲裁主义；从无病呻吟到乐观主义；从宗教情怀到性别观念；从上课修习、转学哥大到博士学位问题，到新文学革命），指出胡适“实验主义其表，实证主义其实”的真身，创获极大极丰，诚乃胡适研究史上的一部扛鼎之作。

《渴望生活——梵高传》是欧文·斯通仅二十六岁时的作品。欧文·斯通认为，最能打动读者的不是名人深厚的成就和辉煌，而是他们追求和探索的过程。七十余年来，梵高悲惨而成就辉煌的人生震撼无数读者。这部作品也成为欧文·斯通的成名作，被译成八十余种文字，发行数千万册，感动亿万读者。

四十年来，中国大事，几无一不与李鸿章有关系。故为李鸿章作传，不可不以作近世史之笔力行之。著者于时局稍有所见，不敢隐讳，意不在古人，在来者也。——梁启超

《吴虞和他生活的民国时代》内容简介：他是个不合时宜的人，是个真正的孤独者，孤独到让人悲悯的地步。他孤独不是因为他高深，而是因为他与人群总处在游离状态之中。他与时代并不合拍，与父亲不共戴天，和家人冷漠客套，与朋友几乎无真交心者，日记里记下了许多朋友阴暗的生活。进入他日记里的名人，几乎都有不堪的记录。

《曾国藩家书》内容广博，既有治军为政之道，又有人生处世之谈，自1879年初刊以来，广为流传，是研究其人及这一时期历史的重要资料。曾氏家书行文从容镇定，形式自由，随想而至，挥笔自如，在平淡的家常事中蕴含真知良言。曾国藩一生勤奋读书，推崇儒家学说，讲求经世致用的实用主义，成为继孔子、孟子、朱熹之后又一个“儒学大师”；他革新桐城派的文学理论，其诗歌教文主持了道光、咸丰、同治三朝文坛，可谓道德文章冠冕一代。