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)

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。

Rachel 和 Malrich的父亲为德国人，母亲是阿尔及利亚人。他们出生在阿尔及利亚一个偏僻遥远的小村镇，年幼被送往法国接受教育。Rachel在法国的教育体系下成功的成为了一名跨国公司的商人，但是Malrich比他哥哥年轻15岁， 很早就辍学并且和一帮不良青年混在一起。兄弟二人互相保持着一定的距离，知道他们的父母在一场伊斯兰原教旨主义（Islamic fundamentalist）突袭中被杀害。。。。

作者簡介 布瓦連．桑薩（Boualem Sansal，1949–） 出生於阿爾及利亞的山間村莊，阿爾及爾國立理工學校畢業，具經濟學博士學位，現住阿爾及爾（Alger）附近的布梅爾戴斯（Boumerdes）。他擔任過教師、顧問，在商界服務過，也曾任阿爾及利亞工業部高級官員。他從1997年開始從事創作，1999年出版第一部小說《蠻族的誓言》（Le Serment des barbares），獲「首部小說獎」和「熱帶獎」﹙法國開發署頒﹚，引起注目，也因此遭受到恐嚇和侮辱，但他仍決定留在阿爾及利亞，繼續從事創作。 從初試啼聲起，他就被視為當代阿爾及利亞的最重要作家之一。他於2003年在法國出版他的第三部小說《告訴我天堂》（Dis-moi le paradis），內容充滿對政治腐敗的揭露和批判，導致他從工業部去職。2008年出版《德國人的村莊》（Le Vill...(展开全部)

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had he survived. Robert Dallek succeed...(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)

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)

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to ...(展开全部)

This book emphasizes the applications of statistics and probability to finance. The basics of these subjects are reviewed and more advanced topics in statistics, such as regression, ARMA and GARCH models, the bootstrap, and nonparametric regression using splines, are introduced as needed. The book covers the classical methods of finance and it introduces the newer area of behav...(展开全部)