《世界现代设计史》共分九章，对世界现代设计史的源流、发展及现状进行通论式的阐述，描述世界现代设计史上的各个时期重要流派、重要人物、重要作品，展现世界现代设计史的基本轮廓、构建基本框架。

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. </p> De Grazia describes how, as America's market empire advanced with confidence through Europe, spreading consumer-oriented capitalism, all alternative strategies fell before it--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, Victoria de Grazia follows the United States' market-driven imperialism through a vivid series of cross-Atlantic incursions by the great inventions of American consumer society. We see Rotarians from Duluth in the company of the high bourgeoisie of Dresden; working-class spectators in ramshackle French theaters conversing with Garbo and Bogart; Stetson-hatted entrepreneurs from Kansas in the midst of fussy Milanese shoppers; and, against the backdrop of Rome's Spanish Steps and Paris's Opera Comique, Fast Food in a showdown with advocates for Slow Food. Demonstrating the intricacies of America's advance, de Grazia offers an intimate and historical dimension to debates over America's exercise of soft power and the process known as Americanization. She raises provocative questions about the quality of the good life, democracy, and peace that issue from the vaunted victory of mass consumer culture. </p>

外国商人，晚清时称之为洋商。洋商在上海的贸易活动，远可追溯至唐天宝十年（公元751年），即使从清道光二十三年（1843年）上海开埠算起，他们在上海的贸易活动也长达160余年；其历史可谓源远流长。但由于解放后几十年我国对外经济贸易没有提到应有的地位，导致对洋商研究很冷落，不但研究者寥寥，研究成果也不多。 20世纪90年代，随着国家对外开放的不断发展和加入世贸组织，对外经济贸易在国民经济中的地位越来越重要。因之在经济、金融、贸易领域，与外商来往频繁，开始引起了研究者的关注，并把对洋商的研究提升为重要课题。 “以史为鉴，可以知得失。”系统、深入地研究上海开埠以来的涉外经济史，可以为推进上海对外开放，进一步发展上海的外向型经济，起到很好的借鉴作用。为此我们从2002年开始编写本书，历时六年，于2007年定稿付梓。全书约100万字，分9篇37章141节（另附录3篇），插图150幅，附表142份，较完整地勾画了上海洋商百年的发展轨迹。 《洋商史》系在我主持编写的《上海对外经济贸易志》过程中，积累3000余万字的资料，2100幅历史图照的基础上，又从外贸系统搜集了大量的中外文洋商史料，本书的编撰工作可谓集众人之智慧。《洋商史》所描述的从上海洋商企业的起源到上海解放后洋商企业的逐渐消失；从上海洋商开设进出口贸易洋行起始，发展到创办涵盖各行各业的工业、商业、航运业、公共事业、文化事业；其时间跨度之长，洋商企业行业之齐全，内容之系统、全面，资料之翔实，图片之稀有，可以说是弥足珍贵。上海是近代中国的窗口，在与洋商的交往中，是中国的缩影，从这个意义上讲，本书是中国第一部完整的洋商史。它的问世，我想对中国对外贸易史、中国近代史，以及外交史的研究，都是有所裨益的。

One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country—a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capone), eccentrics (Shipwreck Kelly), and close-mouthed politicians (Calvin Coolidge). It was the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things and came of age in a big, brawling manner. What a country. What a summer. And what a writer to bring it all so vividly alive for us on the page in this certain bestseller.

"Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War II" is a coherent account of the history of radar in the second World War. Although many books have been written on the early days of radar and its role in the war, this book is by far the most comprehensive, covering ground, air, and sea operations in all theaters of World War II. The author manages to synthesize a vast amount of material in a highly readable, informative, and enjoyable way. Of special interest is extensive new material about the development and use of radar by Germany, Japan, Russia, and Great British. The story is told without undue technical complexity, so that the book is accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike.

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.

Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout the world, throwing light on the nature of these diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book that will appeal to students of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and economic historians.

Three Crises in Early English History gives a clear, concise, and up-to-date account of the three crises in early English history beginning with the Norman Conquest which began with the battle of Hastings and ended in William the Conqueror's Suppression of the Yorkshire rebels in 1071. There is a detailed account of the positive and negative effects of the Conquest on English government. A special effort is made to explain King John's judicial and financial expedients, which collectively drove a determined minority of the country's baronage into the open rebellion that led to the sixty-three clauses of the Magna Carta. The book concludes with four connected essays of the Wars of the Roses, which resulted from England's defeat in the Hundred Years' War and the ineffectual rule of Henry VI and lasting a whole generation. Here these complicated episodes and the colorful figures involved, like Richard of York, Warwick the Kingmaker, and Edward the IV are laid out clearly for the reader.

Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining the historical context to the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar development, the contributors re-engage earlier discourses and introduce new veins of research. Japan Since 1945 provides a much needed update to existing scholarly work on the history of contemporary Japan. It moves beyond the 'lost decade' and 'terrible devastation' frameworks that have thus far defined too much of the discussion, offering a more nuanced picture of the nation's postwar development.

《数据之巅:大数据革命,历史、现实与未来》从美国建国之基讲起，通过阐述初数时代、内战时代、镀金时代、进步时代、抽样时代、大数据时代的特征，系统梳理了美国数据文化的形成，阐述了其数据治国之道，论述了中国数据文化的薄弱之处，展望了未来数据世界的远景。 “尊重事实，用数据说话”，“推崇知识和理性，用数据创新”，作者不仅意在传承黄仁宇“数目字”管理的薪火，还试图把数据这个科技符号在中国转变为文化符号，形成一种文化话语体系。大数据正在撬动中国的制度创新、科技创新。

In A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neal MacGregor, director of the British Museum, takes readers on a tour of the world by way of its material goods. From everyday items such as pots, utensils, and money to valuables such as art and jewelry, MacGregor shows that the things humans have left behind are often as rich and informative as written texts. Whether it's a strange and unique object like a throne made of rifles from Mozambique or a medieval German crystal, or a familiar one like a sculpture of the head of Augustus or Hokusai's painting The Great Wave, MacGregor skillfully weaves each one into the fabric of the society that it came from. In that sense, the book is much more than a museum catalog: it's a hundred keyhole views into a hundred different societies from around the world and throughout history.