In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that...(展开全部)

The "gripping" (New York Times) and "Hitchcockian"(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation’s largest banks A Kirkus Reviews and The Week best book of the year, David Dayen’s Chain of Title is a riveting work that recalls A Civil Action, Erin Brockovich, and Flash Boys, recounting how three ordinary Floridians—a ...(展开全部)

Praise for How I Became a Quant "Led by two top-notch quants, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter, How I Became a Quant details the quirky world of quantitative analysis through stories told by some of today's most successful quants. For anyone who might have thought otherwise, there are engaging personalities behind all that number crunching!" --Ira Kawaller, Kawa...(展开全部)

Fraud permeates all types of institutions today and now the world of science, the last bastion of respect and trust, is no exception. Dozens of cases have been uncovered in the past quarter-century-and the headlines continue. We can no longer shrug off fraud in science as the work of aberrant individual scientists, Horace Freeland Judson argues. Instead, we must look for its ca...(展开全部)

An expos? on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a cat...(展开全部)

From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy points out the three principles--plenitude, continuity, and graduation--w...(展开全部)

阿瑟·O.洛夫乔伊（Arthur Oncken Lovejoy,1873-1962） 美国哲学家，批判实在主义代表之一。曾任霍普金斯大学教授，1916-1917年任美国哲学协会会长。1940年创办《思想史杂志》，并任编辑。与桑塔亚那、赛拉斯等合著的《批判实在主义论文集》为批判实在主义的代表作。主要著作还有《批判实在主义》、《对二元论的反叛》。

阿瑟·O.洛夫乔伊（Arthur Oncken Lovejoy,1873-1962） 美国哲学家，批判实在主义代表之一。曾任霍普金斯大学教授，1916-1917年任美国哲学协会会长。1940年创办《思想史杂志》，并任编辑。与桑塔亚那、赛拉斯等合著的《批判实在主义论文集》为批判实在主义的代表作。主要著作还有《批判实在主义》、《对二元论的反叛》。

These novels together form the culmination of Czechoslovakia's greatest writer's career.

Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world's most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure's conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These stories give life to the Wall and...(展开全部)