What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

The first decades of the 21st century saw dramatic changes in the music industry as technology transformed creation, communication, and consumption. Amid this turmoil one change occurred relatively quietly, almost naturally: so-called bedroom producers, music makers raised on hip-hop and electronic music, went from anonymous, often unseen creators to artists in their own right....(展开全部)

「美國書卷獎」得獎之作，「美國國家書評獎」決選作品。 最有成就的黑人音樂評論家針對震撼全世界的流行文化現象所做的權威剖析。──《華盛頓郵報》書評 少有嘻哈文化的記錄者像尼爾遜．喬治一般頭腦清晰、態度客觀。《嘻哈美國》交織評論與報導，成為極具可讀性的饒舌音樂及其文化震撼性的調查報告。──《費城詢問報》 引人入勝、資料豐富。它給嘻哈追隨者一個完整架構與歷史，給了畏懼嘻哈者詳盡解釋與理解途徑。──《休士頓記事報》 充滿知識、堅持己見，迷人……對嘻哈的熱情讓此書充滿生氣。──Michiko Kakutani，《紐約時報》 《嘻哈美國》一書裡，尼爾遜．喬治（舉世最具洞見的嘻哈文化作家──《滾石雜誌》語）以第一人稱帶領我們進行一場嘻哈歷史之旅。從它的七０年代源頭到它竄起成為一股文化力量，再到今日它的影響力顯現在電影、時裝、廣告與運動各領域裡。它探索黑人...(展开全部)

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket 'bible' for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world's top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again? In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market'...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again? In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market'...(展开全部)

Why does a harpsichord sound different from a piano? For that matter, why does middle C on a piano differ from middle C on a tuning fork, a trombone, or a flute? Good Vibrations explains in clear, friendly language the out-of-sight physics responsible not only for these differences but also for the whole range of noises we call music. The physical properties and history of so...(展开全部)

Why does a harpsichord sound different from a piano? For that matter, why does middle C on a piano differ from middle C on a tuning fork, a trombone, or a flute? Good Vibrations explains in clear, friendly language the out-of-sight physics responsible not only for these differences but also for the whole range of noises we call music. The physical properties and history of so...(展开全部)