[英]丹•科纳汉，金融专家，作家。在伦敦金融城工作十几年，是投资管理、公司融资、股票市场的专家。进入金融界之前，他曾在《每日邮报》做过五年的记者，并担任《经济学人》和《观察家》的撰稿人。 为写作本书，他历时三年研究英格兰银行，采访了众多英格兰银行过去和现任的高管，以及诸多英国财政部、美联储和伦敦金融城里的风云人物，写成了这本真实呈现央行运作的独特作品。 为了中文版的出版，作者在原版基础上修订了部分内文，并增补了约20%的内容。

A reissue of Barbara Shelby Merello's 1968 English translation of João Guimarães Rosa's 'Primeiras Estórias,' with the short stories restored to Rosa's original order.

The future of banking is already here. Are you prepared? BANK 4.0 explores the radical transformation already taking place in banking, and follows it to its logical conclusion. What will banking look like in 30 years? 50 years? The world's best banks are responding to this transformation; regulators are rethinking friction, licensing and regulation; FInTech start-ups are redefi...(展开全部)

The future of banking is already here — are you ready? Bank 4.0 explores the radical transformation already taking place in banking, and follows it to its logical conclusion. What will banking look like in 30 years? 50 years? The world’s best banks have been forced to adapt to changing consumer behaviors; regulators are rethinking friction, licensing and regulation; Fintech sta...(展开全部)

Digital Bank tracks the innovations in banking and how the mobile internet is changing the dynamics of consumer and corporate relationships with their banks. The implication is that banks must become digitized, and that is a challenge as becoming a Digital Bank demands new services focused upon 21st-century technologies. Digital Bank not only includes extensive guidance and bac...(展开全部)

1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropom...(展开全部)

若昂·吉马良斯·罗萨（João Guimarães Rosa，1908—1967） 巴西作家、外交官、医生。生于巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州，早年曾在小镇行医，并在立宪革命中以志愿者医生的身份参军，其后在德国、哥伦比亚和法国担任外交官数年。1963年当选巴西文学院院士，但直到1967年，他才最终决定接受该职位，并在就职演讲中说“我们死去，是为了证明曾经活过”。三天后，他在里约热内卢因心脏病发作去世。当时他正处于文学和外交生涯的巅峰时期，多国机构拟提名他为诺贝尔文学奖候选人。 罗萨通晓20多门语言，同时受流行语和方言的影响，在写作中博学地创造了大量新词和语法。其长篇代表作《广阔的腹地：条条水廊》被誉为“巴西版《尤利西斯》”“几乎不可译的天书”，他被公认为20世纪拉美最伟大的作家之一。

A facsimile edition of one of the "classic" photography books. Elsken focuses on the Left Bank of Paris in the 1950s-a time when it was recognised as a centre of creative ferment which would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot-like technique the work has been acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography....(展开全部)

迪尔克•许茨，1964年生，日内瓦大学国民经济学学士学位，弗里堡大学新闻专业硕士学位，后又于汉堡新闻学院深造。 从1994年起，许茨就职于经济杂志《平衡》（Bilanz），担任记者，1997年起任代理主编。

Children of Rus' argues that it was on the extreme periphery of the tsarist empire—a region that today is located at the very center of the independent nation of Ukraine—that Russian nationalism first took shape and assumed its most potent form. The book reconstructs how nineteenth-century provincial intellectuals came to see local folk customs as the purest manifestation of an...(展开全部)