Slicing through the main layers of the world of R & B, George, music critic for Billboard and Playboy , profiles his personal heroes in the recent history of black musicespecially in the evolution of black radio, the growth of independent record labels and the development of retail outlets for R & B records. Here are perceptive summations of the contributions of such star creat...(展开全部)

Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and...(展开全部)

Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and...(展开全部)

前贝尔斯登CEO兼董事长，目前担任摩根大通的名誉副董事长，著有《总裁备忘录》(Memos from the Chairman)一书。他于1949年进入贝尔斯登，1978年正式成为公司的掌舵人，在贝尔斯登工作了近60年之久，在华尔街备受尊重。 马克·辛格 美国《纽约客》杂志专栏作家，著有多本书籍，如《有趣的金钱》(Funny Money)及《人物研究》(Character Studies)。

On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company’s offices on a Sunday. More remarkable by far than the fact that he was in the office on a Sunday is what he was doing: participating in a meeting of the board of directors to discuss selling the company he had worked decades to build for a...(展开全部)

大卫•利奇菲尔德（David Litchfield），英国插画家。他擅长利用各种传统技术，然后再用数码技术组合各种不同元素创作。《大熊和钢琴》是他的图画书处女作。利奇菲尔德很小的时候就开始画画，为哥哥姐姐创作过星球战争和夺宝奇兵“混搭”的漫画。之后他的作品频繁出现在杂志、报纸、书籍和T恤上。利奇菲尔德在欧洲各国和美国举办过个人插画展。目前居住在英国的贝德福德郡。

作者簡介 凱薩琳‧艾登（Katherine Arden） 生於美國德州奧斯丁，曾在莫斯科短居兩年。她於明德學院主修法國和俄國文學，取得學士學位後搬到夏威夷茂宜島，做過各式各樣千奇百怪的工作，包括騎馬之旅導遊、國際旅客私人導遊、賣可麗餅和撰寫研究計畫等等。在島上生活一年後，飛到法國布里昂松一所高中教授英文一年。九個月後，重回茂宜島。目前她所有家當都收在一個箱子或旅行袋裡，生活則是結合了她最愛的兩件事：旅行和塗塗寫寫。現在住在佛州。 www.katherinearden.com 譯者簡介 穆卓芸 文字手工業者，譯有《焚城記》、《神秘森林》、《我想念我自己》、《企鵝的憂鬱》、《牠》等書。

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night t...(展开全部)

How does one spot the bottom of a bear market? What brings a bear to its end? There are few more important questions to be answered in modern finance. Financial market history is a guide to understanding the future. Looking at the four occasions when US equities were particularly cheap - 1921, 1932, 1949 and 1982 - Russell Napier sets out to answer these questions by analysing ...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)