To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From death-row prisoners trading in institutions where money is banned to flourishing entrepreneurs in the world''s largest refugee camp, from the unrealised potential of cities like Kinshasa to the hyper-modern economy of Estonia, every life in this book has been...(展开全部)

To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From war zones, natural disasters and failed states, to aging societies and the challenges of technological advancement, every life in this book has been hit by a seismic shock, violently broken or changed in some way. People living in these odd and marginal place...(展开全部)

An elegant call to a new biology that goes beyond reductionism~The Human Genome Project is the culmination of a two-centuries-old scientific tradition that takes as its central tenet the principle of

An elegant call to a new biology that goes beyond reductionism~The Human Genome Project is the culmination of a two-centuries-old scientific tradition that takes as its central tenet the principle of

布莱恩·费根（Brian Fagan），世界知名考古学家，剑桥大学考古学和人类学博士，曾任加州大学圣巴巴拉分校人类学系教授。他著作等身，且乐于传播人类学和历史学知识，用平易近人的语言为大众写作，于1997年被美国考古学会授予“公共教育贡献奖”，2013年获得美国考古学会“霍尔顿图书终身成就奖”。他的著作《世界史前史》《考古学与史前文明》《小冰河时代》《大暖化》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《法老王朝》《床的人类史》等已被译成中文出版。 在对考古学和人类学的研究中，费根发现了气候变迁与人类历史间千丝万缕的联系，他认为，这种关联被人们严重忽视了。他致力于开拓这个领域的研究，为认识历史提供新的视角。 纳迪亚·杜拉尼（Nadia Durrani），毕业于剑桥大学，伦敦大学学院博士，专攻阿拉伯考古。曾在英国最畅销的考古杂志《当代世界考古》以及《当代考古》担任编辑，与布莱...(展开全部)

The performance of the U.S. economy in the 1990s far outstripped expectations. Growth was surprisingly strong, unemployment fell to the lowest level in a generation, and yet inflation remained dormant. Why? And what lessons can we learn from this wonderful episode? Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen, who participated in these events both at the Federal Reserve Board and in the...(展开全部)

A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago, this bestselling classic is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who's famed lectures and classes at New York City's Art Student League captivated artists and art educators from around the world. Faithfully producing and methodically an...(展开全部)

Despite the wall of evidence that bank mergers add little or no value, investors and management continue to fuel the consolidation wave. This book draws on the actual experience of senior executives in over 30 banks with extensive merger experience to demonstrate how most mergers do in fact fail to meet objectives. It explores in detail the issues of strategic positioning, cost...(展开全部)