Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Keywords: focus, osteoporosis
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 2004-05
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0853694834
ISBN-13: 9780853694830

中文参考译名:战争的怜悯解释第一次世界大战
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: war, world, explaining, pity
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2000-03-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0465057128
ISBN-13: 9780465057122

A landmark work of history that challenges our most basic assumptions about the causes and consequences of the First World War In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on nave assumptions of German aims-and England’s entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather th

中文参考译名:虚拟历史：替代和反事实
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: counterfactuals, alternatives, history, virtual
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2000-08-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0465023231
ISBN-13: 9780465023233

Speculative history at its best, in which a talented team of historians, led by Niall Ferguson, explore what might have happened if nine momentous events had turned out differently. What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into "imaginary time" and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions. Ferguson’s brilliant 90-page

中文参考译名:在货币上升：对世界金融史
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: world, history, financial, money, ascent
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-11-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594201927
ISBN-13: 9781594201929

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backs

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: world, history, financial, money, ascent
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143116177
ISBN-13: 9780143116172

A richly original look at the origins of money and how it makes the world go ’roundNiall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. What’s more, Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, arguing that the evolution of credit and debt was as important as any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. As Ferguson traces the crisis from ancient Egypt’s Memphis to today’s Chon

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: warburg, siegmund, time, lives, financier
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2010-06-24
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 159420246X
ISBN-13: 9781594202469

Bestselling author Niall Ferguson reveals for the first time the true extent of Siegmund Warburg’s influence-and the lessons we can learn in a time of crisis from the last of the high financiers. "Success from the financial and from the prestige point of view . . . is not enough; what matters even more is . . . adherence to high moral and aesthetic standards." -Siegmund Warburg, 1959 In this pathbreaking new biography, based on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial hist

中文参考译名:现金的Nexus：金钱与权力，在现代世界，1700至2000年
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: modern, world, power, money, nexus, cash
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2001-03-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0465023258
ISBN-13: 9780465023257

An acclaimed historian offers a radical new history of the links between politics and economics, one that draws unsettling conclusions about the future of both capitalism and democracy Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer-No. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or the Internet. In our own time Paul Kennedy has claimed that economics provided the key to internat