The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata...(展开全部)

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata...(展开全部)

Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country-or even halfway across the world-to people and places who find value in what we leave behind. In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter ...(展开全部)

Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of Th...(展开全部)

劳伦斯•戈德斯通（Lawrence Goldstone）和南希•戈德斯通（Nancy Goldstone）皆是成功的小说家。戈德斯通夫妇现居美国康涅狄格州的韦斯特波特。

After years of competitive extravagance at birthday time, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone decided to limit themselves to $20 each, which is how they came to be in possession of a $10 definitive translation of War and Peace, complete with maps of the major battles and fold-out color illustrations. It is also how they eventually came to be the owners of a $650 edition of Dickens's M...(展开全部)

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。