The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance—and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it’s clear, rest on understanding finance itself. To understand finance, however, we have to learn its history, and this book fills that need. Kevin R. Brine, a...(展开全部)

凯文·R.布莱恩（Kevin R. Brine）获得纽约大学斯特恩商学院MBA，同时是美国纽约大学基金会的托管人。他是一名跨界的华尔街资深人士，曾在安联资产管理集团公司旗下的贝恩斯坦投资公司担任二十余年的董事会成员和高管，该公司负责管理的资产达到2000多亿美元，他直接负责私人银行业务。他后来在一家纽约证券交易保险公司的董事会任职。 玛丽·普维（Mary Poovey），曾任纽约大学人文学科教授、纽约知识产品历史研究所所长。她的研究领域集中于18、19世纪的英国文学、历史和文化，出版的学术著作包括18世纪的英国文学和文化、文学批评史、女性主义理论和经济史。她著有多部作品，包括《现代事实的历史：财富和社会科学的知识问题》《信贷经济的类型：十八、十九世纪英国的中介价值》等。

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical the...(展开全部)

高校教師の山崎はある日、 偶然担任をしているクラスの学生・ニーナの弱みを握る。 それをニーナに話すと、彼は「なんでも言うことを聞くから」と懇願した。 すると山崎がニーナに身体の関係を強いて――。

With a new introduction by Monica Ali The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeting, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.

With a new introduction by Monica Ali The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeting, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.