凯文·R.布莱恩（Kevin R. Brine）获得纽约大学斯特恩商学院MBA，同时是美国纽约大学基金会的托管人。他是一名跨界的华尔街资深人士，曾在安联资产管理集团公司旗下的贝恩斯坦投资公司担任二十余年的董事会成员和高管，该公司负责管理的资产达到2000多亿美元，他直接负责私人银行业务。他后来在一家纽约证券交易保险公司的董事会任职。 玛丽·普维（Mary Poovey），曾任纽约大学人文学科教授、纽约知识产品历史研究所所长。她的研究领域集中于18、19世纪的英国文学、历史和文化，出版的学术著作包括18世纪的英国文学和文化、文学批评史、女性主义理论和经济史。她著有多部作品，包括《现代事实的历史：财富和社会科学的知识问题》《信贷经济的类型：十八、十九世纪英国的中介价值》等。

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance—and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it’s clear, rest on understanding finance itself. To understand finance, however, we have to learn its history, and this book fills that need. Kevin R. Brine, a...(展开全部)

山姆·沃尔顿（Sam Walton, 1918-1992） 沃尔玛创始人。1945年从一家“五毛店”开始进入零售业，1985年成为美国首富；2001年，他创建的沃尔玛帝国成为世界500强第一名，沃尔顿家族的5人包揽“福布斯”财富排行榜第7至第11位，成为世界上最富有的家族。 山姆·沃尔顿把低价销售、疯狂促销的理念带入零售业，创立了一套严密的商业哲学，改变了美国乃至全球的现代零售业形态。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jump...(展开全部)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies （PFS） in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press （FLP） in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events de...(展开全部)

伊斯雷尔·爱泼斯坦（Israel Epstein），国际知名记者、作家。1915年出生在波兰华沙，1917年跟随父母移居中国。长年为美国合众社、《纽约时报》等报道中国。抗日战争期间，对正面战场和敌后战场均有深入报道。既奔赴南京、广州、武汉及山东台儿庄前线战场采访，也曾突破重重封锁访问延安。此外，他还应宋庆龄之邀，在香港参加“保卫中国同盟”，积极宣传中国的抗日斗争并争取国际援助。新中国成立之后，爱泼斯坦应宋庆龄的邀请返回中国，后来加入中国国籍。 爱泼斯坦亲身经历了中国从半殖民地到民族独立、从新中国成立到改革开放的历史巨变。他说：“中国实际上成为我写作的唯一主题。”他的七部主要作品包括： 以抗战为主题的“战争四部曲”：《人民之战》《我访问延安：1944年的通讯和家书》《中国未完成的革命》和《从鸦片战争到解放》。 《西藏的变迁》：这是作者1955—1976...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

In this cogent and insightful reading of China’s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life—one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China’s social and cultural order. Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a ...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)