《帝国的回忆》是《纽约时报》晚清时期对华报道的选编，起迄年代为1857年1月至1911年10月。这一时期的中国，正经历着“千年未有之变局”，从独立自主的东方老大帝国沦为“东亚病夫”，传统的帝制和士大夫政治走向终结，军事、经济、文化和社会生活经历了蜕变，人民经受着无与伦比的巨痛。《纽约时报》以当时中国人还未具备的近代眼光和技术，及时、全面、连续地观察和记录了这段历史，内容涉及内政、外交、国防、文化、社会生活、革命及华侨等方面。

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.

David A. Hounshell's widely acclaimed history explores the American "genius for mass production" and traces its origins in the nineteenth-century "American system" of manufacture. Previous writers on the American system have argued that the technical problems of mass production had been solved by armsmakers before the Civil War. Drawing upon the extensive business and manufacturing records of leading American firms, Hounshell demonstrates that the diffusion of arms production technology was neither as fast nor as smooth as had been assumed. Exploring the manufacture of sewing machines and furniture, bicycles and reapers, he shows that both the expresssion "mass production" and the technology that lay behind it were developments of the twentieth century, attributable in large part to the Ford Motor Company

Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.

"Porter's [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for."—Peter Gay, Times Literary Supplement From the author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award) comes a "sumptuous and spicy volume" ( Washington Post Book World ) that highlights Britain's long-underestimated and pivotal role in disseminating the ideas and culture of the Enlightenment. In response to numerous histories centered on France and Germany, Roy Porter explains how the monumental transformation of thinking in Britain influenced worldwide developments. This "splendidly imaginative" work "propels the debate forward...and makes a valuable point" ( New York Times Book Review ). 16 pages of black and white illustrations

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the west since the 17th century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War.

Who would solve one of the most perplexing scientific problems of all time? This dramatic picture-book biography brings to life - with illustrations that glow with wit and inspiration - the fascinating story of the quest to measure longitude. While the scientific establishment of the eighteenth century was certain that the answer lay in mapping the heavens, John Harrison, an obscure, uneducated clockmaker, dared to imagine a different solution: a seafaring clock. How Harrison held fast to his vision and dedicated his life to the creation of a small jewel of a timepiece that would change the world is a compelling story - as well as a memorable piece of history, science, and biography. A Junior Library Guild Selection

哥伦布1492年首先发现美洲，麦哲伦1519年起历时三年首次完成环球航行，这些都是教科书中的历史常识。然而，《天下诸番识贡图》摹本的现身，显示1418年前中国人已完成世界航行。本书由此图出发，层层揭开中国人发现世界之谜。
一幅11世纪古墓中的世界地图痕迹揭示当时中国人已经完成了测绘美洲大陆的壮举；数幅马可•波罗遗传的古地图显现出北美的部分轮廓，证明马可•波罗从中国获悉了北美大陆的信息；许多中世纪地图描绘出南极陆地的轮廓线，显示中国古代探险家曾经测绘过南极洲；六百年以前，中国地图以北为上，伊斯兰以南为上，而欧洲却以东为上，中国古典地图投影术促使中世纪西方地图学家改变了他们的地图朝向，形成以北为上的地图绘制规则……中国古人绘制的世界地图辗转流传到欧洲，为欧洲航海家“发现”新大陆指明了方向。全书并配有一百多幅插图，图文并茂，悬念叠出。
加文•孟席斯的《1421：中国发现世界》轰动一时，而本书中提出的一些史学观点更加新颖，将会引发广泛论争。

在中央提出科学发展观和建立和谐社会的今天，认真回顾和总结了50多年来所制定的十个五年计划和实施国民经济宏观管理方面的经验教训，对于完善我国社会主义市场经济理论和体制，都是一件意义十分重大的工作。
——刘国光（首届中国经济学杰出贡献奖获得者、中国社会科学院特邀顾问）
从上个世纪50年代初期制定与实施第一个五年计划至今，我国在半个多世纪中已经制定和实施了十个五年计划。认真回顾和总结制定五年计划以及实施国民经济宏观管理方面的教育，对于完善中国社会主义市场经济理论和体制，是一件意义重大的工作。
我国制定与实施五年计划的历史，可以1978年的中共十一届三中全会为标志，大致划分为改革开放前、改革开放后两个时期。与此相应，第一至第五个五年计划，是处于计划经济时期，而第六至第十个五年计划，则是处于转轨的和市场经济时期。研究和叙述这十个五年计划，自然也反映了这两个时期的特征。
本书从大量第一手资料入手，在深入研究的基础上，用了三年多时间完成书稿。但是，由于这50多年是中国经济、社会以空前规模发展和转型时期，中国经历了社会主义计划经济和向社会主义市场经济的过渡，其间经济体制变动之剧烈、经济增长速度之快、人口由传统农业向非农产业转移规模之庞大，工业化、现代化步伐之大，都是中国历史上空前的，在世界历史上也是罕见的；其中有些问题是我们眼界和能力难以准确把握的；有些问题由于发生不久，时间离的较近，也不容易看清楚。

This is a full-length history of the Western Electric Company, which was the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western Electric made products that accelerated society's pace, such as telegraphs, telephones, an early computing machine, radios, radar and transistors. Western's history offers numerous examples of the difference between innovation and implementation. The aftermath of Western's 1882 acquisition by Bell Telephone, for instance, reveals vertical integration as a lengthy process rather than a single event. Ironically, although Western transformed business worldwide with innovations in areas such as quality control and industrial psychology, the company was slow to implement these innovations itself. Western's dual role as captive supplier for a regulated monopoly and as government contractor led to its most rapid change, in the area of civil rights.

American Science and Modern China is an essay in comparative history, originally published in 1980. It focuses on the transmission of scientific ideas and organizations from the United States to China, a topic interesting primarily for what it reveals about the social history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American science. The main themes concern how scientific traditions and institutions that were developed in one setting served as models for the creation of new ones elsewhere, what modifications were induced by this change of environment, and what these modifications imply about the interdependence of scientific knowledge and social life. The book deals with a number of individuals and organizations involved in the development of modern science in China. Dr Buck examines their views of science's place among the forces for change in China, describes their efforts to build institutional bases for science, and sets their plans and programs in broad social and intellectual contexts.