Israel leads the world in start-ups, particularly in the tech sector, and Senor and Singer explain why in this compelling book. Among the reasons: The social networks and educational opportunities afforded by near-universal military service; lax immigration laws that create a diversity of thought and experience; and an authority-questioning worldview that keeps complacency at bay and hierarchies relatively flat. As a strictly non-Zionist Jew (that means I feel no cultural connection with Israel or with the notion of a homeland), even I was considering emigration when I finished this book! - Stepcase Lifehack

《深圳经济特区年谱：1978.3-2010.3·修订版(套装全2册)》是“1978-2010年深圳经济特区年谱”，书中按年月日顺序纪事，部分条目根据叙事的需要采用纪事本末的写法。文中重要人物的谈话一般不加引号，如加引号则说明此人的当时谈话被准确记录下来，本年谱对其引用不作变更。

覆雨翻云的中国网事； 荡气回肠的产业传奇；虚拟世界的真实讲述；万象网络的还原走笔。
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本书记录了一群在中国创造属于自己历史的人和他们的故事，他们是中国互联网自1995年兴起的波澜壮阔中的弄潮儿和财富新贵的代表：马化腾、丁磊、张朝阳、马云、陈天桥、李彦宏、史玉柱、田溯宁、张树新、王志东、王峻涛、雷军、周鸿祎、陈一舟……他们用互联网创造和推动着这个国家的历史，并改写了自己的财富路径，他们分属于三类人：海归（从海外归来的创业者）、本土技术爱好者（极客）和商业价值发现者（商人）。
中国互联网产业作为一个产业，从诞生到现在不过15年时间，但在短短的15年里，却产生了接近40家在海外市场上上市的公司，其中超过15家公司达到过10亿美元市值的高位，这些公司的领袖以其无比阳光的财富路径，成为新一代中国企业家的中坚力量。但我们不能简单地把中国互联网的成功看作是一个支柱产业的崛起这么简单，而更应该把它看作是我们这个民族在改革开放的大时代下自我意识觉醒的一次大的提升，一次全民自发的集体性的自我赶超，一次从下到上，由民众自觉自发的创富运动。它让一代人开始有了自我意识的觉醒，并帮助我们这个国家更好的开放，更好的用世界通行的商业语言进行沟通。
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林军和他撰写的这本关于中国互联网产业历史的书，脉络清晰、生动鲜明地把这样一大批创业者的形象和他们的动人故事呈现在读者眼前，值得一读。
——中国互联网协会理事长、中国科协副主席 胡启恒
林军和他的这本关于中国互联网产业历史的著作用足够多的事实告诉我们，我们是完全有可能遵从不作恶的基本道德底线，做最好的自己的。
——Google全球副总裁、大中华区总裁 李开复
中国互联网产业发展可分三个阶段，窄带互联网的建设（能上网）、宽带互联网的建设（更快上网）和目前的互联网大规模应用创新（更好上网）。幸运的是，我都作为一分子积极地参与到其中，而更宽广的路才刚刚开始。可贵的是， 林军先生在他的书中用他的笔和心记录下这一切。
——中国宽带产业基金董事长 田溯宁
读林军的这本关于中国互联网产业历史的书，就像回到了那段激情燃烧的岁月。
——卓越网创始人、金山公司副董事长 雷军
林军对互联网这个行业的观察和记录超过12年，写这本书的时间超过3年，用这么长的时间做这样一件有功德的事情，难能可贵。林军和这本关于中国互联网产业历史的书值得期待。
——松禾资本董事长 罗飞
身为互联网投资领域的先驱之一，我一向认为，中国有朝一日必将成为互联网的主要市场，如今事实已经摆在眼前。林军这本书记述了中国的互联网发展历史，描摹出一群优秀的互联网企业家和风险投资人，生动地再现了梦想变成现实的过程。若想了解中国互联网的过去与未来，林军这本书不容错过。
——《零重力》作者、美国畅销书作家、风险投资人 史蒂夫•哈蒙

Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks of trade, administration, settlement, legality, and migration whose regional circuits and territorially and institutionally based nodes of regulatory power operated not only on land and sea but discursively as well. Rights of sovereignty were granted to the Company by the States General in the United Provinces. Company directors in Europe administered the exercise of sovereignty by Company servants in its chartered domain. The empire developed in dynamic response to challenges waged by individuals and other sovereign entities operating within the Indian Ocean grid. By closely examining the Dutch East India Company's network of forced migration this book explains how empires are constituted through the creation, management, contestation, devolution and reconstruction of these multiple and intersecting fields of partial sovereignty.

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional responses--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders--whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers--had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

This book demolishes the widely held view that the phrase 'medieval business' is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation and marketing. Businessmen's responses to the devastating plagues, famines, and warfare that beset Europe in the late Middle Ages are equally well covered. Medieval businessmen's remarkable success in coping with this hostile new environment was 'a harvest of adversity' that prepared the way for the economic expansion of the sixteenth century. Two main themes run through this book. First, the force and direction of business development in this period stemmed primarily from the demands of the elite. Second, the lasting legacy of medieval businessmen was less their skillful adaptations of imported inventions than their brilliant innovations in business organization.

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海量触目惊心的真实案例、第一手资料首度公开
《朝日新闻》采访组直击日本国民热议话题，引发全民讨论
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◎ 到了免费送也无人问津，惟愿早日摆脱税费梦魇的那一天，“不动产”就成了“负动产”。
◎ 截至2018年，日本房屋空置率达到13.6%，到2033年将会达到30%。
◎ 《朝日新闻》采访组直击国民热议话题，海量触目惊心的真实案例、第一手资料首度无死角公开，引发全民讨论。
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年轻时拼力买下昂贵的房产，想着退休以后能和家人一起颐养天年；经营多处房产，期冀子女日后能靠长租公寓多一份收入和保障；未加深思便继承了故人遗产，以为房产再多一两处又何妨。但曾经的“土地神话”已化为泡影，截至2018年全日本的空房率达到13.6%，再次刷新历史峰值。
当年高位接盘的人，后来都过得怎么样了？众人趋之若鹜的房产和土地为何会沦为避之唯恐不及的烫手山芋？人口剧减已成定势，日本多地却仍旧频现房地产热潮，背后交织着哪些不为人知的利益暗流？
《朝日新闻》大型连载“负动产时代”在全日本引发巨大反响，本书在此基础上进行了大规模增补和调整，通过海量一手资料和真实案例，深入分析日本“负动产”的成因、现状以及可能的解决方向，全民买房时代究竟该不该上车？本书或已给出答案。