一部历史写给现实的时事教科书！几位80后作者，用他们的笔描摹过去的世界，用他们的眼睛观察现在的世界，用他们的睿智迎接未来的世界！
站在21世纪的第二个十年里，回望100年前的时候，世界正在经历一场大变革：第一次世界大战刚刚结束，第二次工业革命的成果正在显现……百年之后的现在，世界仍然在酝酿一场大变革！
站在世界变革的风口浪尖，我们必须要有一种力量，一种应变大变局的力量。本书给我们的便是这种力量！书中从政治、经济、军事、人口、历史等诸多方面，为我们呈现了世界各国一路走来的风风雨雨。
回顾历史很容易，站在历史的车轮上选择下面的路却很难。这本书清楚地阐述了几位80后对当下道路的思考与选择。他们将会选择怎样的道路？他们又将和这个时代协商些什么？本书将会给你最好的答案！

The extraordinary story of the development of America's industrial muscle and the rise of big business during World War II For admirers of books by Erik Larson and Stephen Ambrose, here's a great, meaty, and untold story of World War II - how American big business set out to build the weapons and create the industrial muscle to arm the Allies and defeat the Axis, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Ghandi & Churchill. Bestselling author Arthur Herman reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen - the Danish immigrant William Knudsen and shipbuilding industrialist Henry Kaiser - helped corral, cajole, manipulate, and inspire big business around the country to help mobilize the war effort and what later critics would call the American "military-industrial complex," without which the history of America, as well as of the Second World War, would be very different. Together these men changed the face not only of American business and industry but of American society. At the same time their efforts transformed the culture of America's armed services, giving the army, navy, and air force both the tools and the new strategies for securing a postwar global order.

This classic work, first published in 1958, is a seminal text in international business history. This new, substantially updated and revised edition is being published on the fortieth anniversary of the first edition. Features of the revised edition include: * a new introduction * a new concluding chapter * amendments and additions to the original text * a new statistical appendix which examines the main features and significance of the US penetration of UK industry over the past four decades. Professor Dunning is one of the most internationally renowned and respected scholars in international business research. The updated version of this highly regarded book is a major contribution to studies in international business history.