An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle

作者：  (英)马修·西蒙兹(Matthew Symonds)著;(美)拉里·埃利森(Larry Ellison)评注;何春耕，孔玮译

出版社：中信出版社,2005

简介：作为一家公司，甲骨文公司所引起的争议可以说同它所产生的影响一样大，而它所面临的困惑也同它所受到的崇敬一样多，出现这种局面在很大程度上与该公司的创建者和管理者拉里·埃利森本人密切相关。虽然甲骨文公司已经成为当今媒体评价最佳和利润最高的公司之一，可是，埃利森并不打算走原来的老路，为了实现更远大的新目标，他不在意突然改变公司现有的运行方式——重塑甲骨文公司。 埃利森曾一度超越比尔·盖茨，成为世界首富。埃利森波澜万丈的创业历程已成硅谷最惊心动魄的传奇，营销策略是“冲冲冲”，雇员原则是“聪明有个性”。埃利森乐于享受、好勇斗狠、傲慢自大、喜欢与漂亮女性交往，32岁前一事无成，20年后却成为硅谷巨富，外界对他的廉政价毁誉参半。成吉思汗的名言足以反映出埃利森顽强的人生态度：“光是我们的赢得胜利还不够，必须打败其他所有人才算数。” 本书描述了埃利森如何从写程序起家，借着过人的高科技营销策略与个人独特魅力，建立价值280亿美元的企业王国，严重威胁微软的龙头地位。本书举出计算机界的许多传奇逸闻，诸如埃利森和比尔·盖茨间的白热化竞争；甲骨文如何撷取IBM研究精华自创产品；还有埃利森的知人善任及破格提拔，让科技人员无不视甲骨文为梦想之地…… 更为难得的是，埃利森本人也欣然提笔，恰到好处地对本书的个别细节做出了评注，从中我们可以清晰地威受埃利森独特的经营理念与人生态度。

Invisible man

作者：  (美)拉尔夫·艾里森(Ralph Ellison)著;任绍曾等译

出版社：译林出版社,1998

简介：《无形人》的主人公是一个出身贫寒的的美国南方黑人青年。他发奋读书，刻意上进。中学毕业时由于出色的演讲被推荐到一所黑人大学读书，没想到他在接待白人校董时触怒了校董与校长，被逐出校门，来到纽约。他起初拿着“推荐信”，满心希望能找一份体面的工作，可是他的黑人身份使他四处碰壁。纽约街头经历逐渐唤起了他的黑人意识，他深深地体会到作为黑人的自己在白人眼中是“无形无体”的，他以前按白人价值观念所作的努力全是白费。于是他加入了兄弟会，走上街头，用他的演讲作武器，号召黑人群众起来为争取自己的权利而斗争。书中真实地再现了美国社会黑人的生存状况和六十年代的黑人民权运动，出版后反响强烈，曾引起广泛争议。

Invisible man

作者：  Ralph Ellison

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简介：A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility

【预订】Juneteenth A Novel

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出版社：Random House US 2000年06月

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简介：Includes fiction by Kate Chopin, Gail Godwin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Faulkner, Grace Paley, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, Hemingway, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Garcia Marquez, Tillie Olsen, Mark Twain, Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, John Cheever, Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Updike, Yukio Mishima, Louise Erdrich, Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. others. Includes poems by Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, John Donne, Nikki Giovanni, Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith, Jane Kenyon, William Carlos Williams, Adelaide Crapsey, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, Matthew Arnold, H.D., William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Margaret Atwood, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Bradstreet, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Robert Graves, May Swenson, Robert Frost, Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Eberhart, D.H. Lawrence, Louise Bogan, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Jean Toomer, Pope, Yeats, A.E. Housman, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker, Tennyson, Richard Lovelace, Shakespeare, Basho, Seamus Heaney, Shelley, George Herbert, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Keats, W.H. Auden, Robert Bly, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Countee Cullen, Lucille Clifton, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Donald Hall, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, X.J. Kennedy, Audre Lord, Archibald MacLeish, Claude McKay, Christopher Marlowe, Milton, Ogden Nash, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, John Crowe Ransom, Anne Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wallace Stevens, Anna Akhmatove, Claribel Alegria, Baudelaire, Garcia Lorca, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Rilke, Sappho, Amy Clampitt, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, and others. Includes drama and writings on drama by Sophocles, Aristotle, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Sagoff, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Freud, Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Martin Esslin, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka, James Gibb, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Owen Davis, Susan Glaspell, Eric Bentley, David Savran, Susan Sontag, Judith Fetterley, Annette Kolodny, and others.

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简介：The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era example of a "frameless" spoken voice text, to Wideman's neo-frame text of the late 20th century.

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简介：Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world. The book looks at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context, and aims to open up the subject to the non-specialist. It examines the social and institutional structures that have underpinned the music at particular stages in its history, from the 1930s through to the present, and considers its place as a component of the entertainment industry. Among the musicians introduced are Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday and Lester Young. Peter Townsend's distinctive approach to his subject includes a consideration of representations of jazz in other art forms, including films and literary texts, such as the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison, and the poetry of Langston Hughes. He also introduces the work of jazz-influenced painters such as Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock, and discusses the significance of photography in jazz.The book also explores the influence of jazz on other art forms, the 'mythology' of jazz, its place in consumer culture and its relation to a number of issues, such as ethnicity and individualism, that have affected American art and society. This book will be of lasting interest to anyone with a passion for jazz music.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group. An abolitionist who criticized black racialism; the author of Invisible Man, a landmark of modernity and black literature; a musician whose allegiance was to "God's side, who cause me to come from black and white." The lives of these three men illustrate how our notions of "race" have been constructed out of a repression of the interracial.   Publisher Summary 2 Heroes of black history and consciousness reconsidered for a contemporary understanding of multiracial culture.  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Adam Zachary Newton couples works of prose fiction by African American and Jewish American authors from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in American literature and rethinking their sometimes vexing relationship. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas' ethical philosophy and Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical-political criticism. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial.   Publisher Summary 2 Reading the work of African American and Jewish American authors alongside and through one another.  

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简介：Upon taking office, idealistic President Paul Ellison inaugurates the "people-to-people" program, intended to establish America's ties with Iron Curtain countries. Instead of naming an experienced diplomat as ambassador to Romania, Ellison selects wholesome Mary Ashley, instructor of Eastern European political science at Kansas State University. Mary initially declines the post, but after her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, she warily accepts Ellison's offer in an attempt to quell her overwhelming grief. Unwittingly, Mary has placed herself in peril, for a sinister covert organization of right- and left-wing tycoons and politicians called Patriots for Freedom intends to abort Ellison's project by lethal mean--Publishers Weekly.

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简介："Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream." "In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo." "Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：Includes literary criticisms about works by Baldwin, Bambara, Brooks, Clifton, Cullen, Du Bois, Ellison, Hansberry, Hughes, Hurston, Kincaid, Marshall, McKay, Morrison, Petry, Toomer, Walker, Wright, and more.

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简介：Ralph Ellison's classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides the most up-to-date introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features newly commissioned essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays reveal new dimensions of Ellison's art radiating out from Invisible Man into new domains - technology, political theory, law, photography, music, religion - and recover the compelling urgency and relevance of Ellison's political and artistic vision. Since Ellison's death his published oeuvre has been expanded by several major volumes - his collected essays, the fragment of a novel, Juneteenth (1999), letters and short stories - examined here in the context of his life and work. Students and scholars of Ellison and of American and African-American literature will find this an invaluable and accessible guide. - Publisher.

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简介：　　Karen Southwick’s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison’s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison’s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America’s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps it constantly on the edge of both success and disaster. The hostile bid for PeopleSoft is just the most recent example. With one clever strategic move, Larry Ellison threw much of the business software field into play. 　　 　　The saying “It’s not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail” has been so often used by or associated with Ellison that most people think it originated with him. It’s actually attributed to Genghis Khan, but it’s a dead-on way to describe not only the way Ellison thinks about competitors but the way he runs Oracle. His weapons are not marauding hordes, but Oracle’s possession of database technology that is crucial for keeping mission-critical information flows working at thousands of organizations, corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. 　　 　　Inside Oracle, Ellison has time and again systematically purged key operating, sales, and marketing people who got too powerful for his comfort. Most notable was Ray Lane, Oracle’s president for nine years, who was widely credited with bringing order out of the chaos that was Oracle in the early nineties and growing it into a ten billion dollar company. Ellison got rid of the one key person who was building confidence with Wall Street, business partners, and customers that Oracle was no longer flying by the seat of its pants and had its act together. Ellison’s mania for absolute control and his inability to coexist with the very lieutenants who bring much-needed stability to the company have brought Oracle to the brink of collapse before, and may well do it again. 　　 　　Ellison is a throwback to an earlier, much more freewheeling version of capitalism, the kind practiced by the nineteenth-century robber barons who ran their companies as private fiefdoms. Larry Ellison is one of the most intriguing and dominant leaders of a major twenty-first-century corporation, and Everyone Else Must Fail raises the question of whether Oracle’s products and the reliance placed in them by so many are too important to be subject to the whims of one man. While giving credit to Ellison’s brilliance and devotion, the book sounds a warning about an ingenious man’s tendency to be his own company’s worst enemy.　　

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简介： WHAT A WEDDING! Angie Ellison had just married a gorgeous mystery man in a hastily arranged wedding ceremony. Clearly, the folklore about the comet passing by her small town was true—it affected everyone's morals! Surely that was why she was looking forward to her wedding night with one heck of a bad boy…. Sexy undercover agent Ethan Zorn wasn't interested in silly comet lore, shotgun weddings or sticking around this crazy town once his assignment was over. But he also knew it wasn't the comet making him act like such a hot-and-bothered newlywed in love. It was Angie… BLAME IT ON BOB: The comet passes through once every fifteen years…but leaves behind a lifetime of love!

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简介：Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion. Now the two leading African-American intellectuals of our day show us why the twentieth century was The African-American Century, with one hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans from W. E. B. Du Bois to Oprah Winfrey. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West offer their personal picks of the African-American figures who did the most to shape our world. Here we find much-loved figures such as scientist George Washington Carver and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and contemporary favorites such as comedian Richard Pryor, novelist Alice Walker, and golf champion Tiger Woods. We also learn about less well known people such as jockey Jimmy Winkfield, aviator Bessie Coleman, and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and recognize the achievements of controversial figures such as activist Angela Davis, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and rap artist Tupac Shakur. Each profile is a lively story in its own right. But taken as a whole, these one hundred stories offer a unique window on the history of the twentieth century. Decade by decade, we marvel at the triumphs of a people who began the century only thirty-five years "up from slavery," and ended it at the top of every field. The result is a moving testament to the humanity and genius of black Americans, both individually and together. The African-American Century reminds us that there would be no American culture without black America. Without Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, or John Coltrane, we would have no jazz. Without Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, or Toni Morrison, we would miss our greatest novels. Without Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, or Althea Gibson, we would have none of our most glorious triumphs in sports. Without Thurgood Marshall, Dr. King, or Barbara Jordan, we would be deprived of the political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy. Whether we are laughing with Bill Cosby or dancing to rock 'n' roll, whether we are listening to a great preacher or stunned by the power of a Spike Lee film, whether we are building a business empire or fighting for justice - we are all shaped and influenced by the African-American experience. Written in a lively, accessible style and fully illustrated throughout, The African-American Century is a celebration of black achievement and a tribute to the black struggle for freedom in America that will inspire us for years to come. - Publisher.

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简介：Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity. - Publisher. This companion presents new essays covering the 150-year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the USA and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical fiction. Chapters examine works by Ralph Ellison, Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and many others. - Back cover.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison's move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952.   Publisher Summary 2 In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley scrutinized thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the novel, as well as the author’s early journalism and fiction, published and unpublished. While Ellison had cut his ties with the Communist left by the time he began Invisible Manin 1945, Foley argues that it took him nearly seven years to wrestle down his leftist consciousness (and conscience) and produce the carefully patterned cold war text that won the National Book Award in 1953 and has since become a widely taught American classic. She interweaves her account of the novel’s composition with the history of American Communism, linking Ellison’s political and artistic transformations to his distress at the Communists’ wartime policies, his growing embrace of American nationalism, his isolation from radical friends, and his recognition, as the cold war heated up, that an explicitly leftist writer could not expect to have a viable literary career. Foley suggests that by expunging a leftist vision from Invisible Man, Ellison rendered his novel not only less radical but also less humane than it might otherwise have been.  

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简介：Cross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shifting conceptions of ethnic identity across the twentieth century. The emergence of blues and jazz is, likewise, a crucial product of, as well as catalyst for, this context, and in their own aesthetic explorations of notions of ethnicity these writers consciously engage with this musical milieu. By examining the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common denominator which links these writers, this study attempts to identify an underlying unifying principle. As the different writers write against essentializing or organic categories of race, the very fact of a shared engagement with jazz sensibilities in their work redefines the basis of African-American communal identity. - Publisher.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Donald Treadgoldwas one of the most distinguished Russian historians of his generation. His Twentieth Century Russia, a standard text in colleges and universities for several decades,has been regularly revised and expanded to reflect new events and scholarship. The present revision, by Professor Herbert Ellison, contains a major chapter on the Yeltsin era, and brings the Russian story to the final year of the century.Twice in the twentieth century the collapse of the Russian state and empire has been followed by an effort to build a democracy on the Western model. The first effort succumbed within a few months to Lenin’s communist revolution, whose ideas and institutions dominated the history of Russia, and eventually much of the world, during the succeeding seventy-four years. In August 1991, an attempt by Soviet leaders to suppress democratic and nationalist movements unleashed by the Gorbachev reforms, and already victorious in Eastern Europe, precipitated instead an anti-communist revolution under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin.The revolution, and the sweeping transformation that followed, are treated in the new edition, which assesses the aims and scope of the first decade of Russia’s second revolution. The transformation included a new constitutional structure, two fully democratic parliamentary elections and a presidential election (with another of each soon to come), a vigorous revival of political parties and political debate, and major questions about Russia’s political future. Against the broad background of the Russian experience over a turbulent century, it raises the major questions: What are the prospects for Russian democracy? Why are the communists, following an anti-communist revolution, the most powerful parliamentary party in Russia’s new parliament, and what is their impact? Why has the conversion to a market economy proved so difficult and painful, and what are its prospects? How has Russia related to the new states that were once fellow republics of the USSR? Why has the foreign policy of the new Russian democracy moved from a vision of partnership with the US to a reality of conflict and confrontation?Twentieth Century Russia poses these questions, and many more, for the student and the general reader alike, against the fascinating background of Russia’s experience before, during and since the era of communist rule, exploring the roots of current developments in the communist and pre-communist past.   Publisher Summary 2 This classic work by the late Donald Treadgold, one of the most distinguished Russian historians of his generation, stands as the fullest, most comprehensive text available on twentieth century Russian history. Providing a comprehensive overview of the political, economic and cultural institutions of Imperial Russia, it traces the wrenching transformations of Russian society in the opening decades of this century, the emergence of Leninism within Russian Marxism and the broader Russian revolutionary movement, and Lenin’s seizure of power in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1917. It then follows the course of the consolidation of communist power in Russia, the creation of the Soviet Union, and the record of communist rule from the 20’s to the collapse of communist power in 1991. The work is especially notable for its comprehensive coverage of political, social, economic and cultural changes, and of foreign and revolutionary policy. The ninth edition of Twentieth Century Russia adds to the extensive revisions of previous editions a major chapter on the sweeping changes in Russia in the Yeltsin era by Herbert Ellison.