A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular—in the ...(展开全部)

Capitalism and interest are inseparable, yet over the centuries whenever interest rates have collapsed and money was too easy, financial markets have become unstable. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded. In an unprecedented move, negative interest rates were in...(展开全部)

A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular—in the ...(展开全部)

Capitalism and interest are inseparable, yet over the centuries whenever interest rates have collapsed and money was too easy, financial markets have become unstable. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded. In an unprecedented move, negative interest rates were in...(展开全部)

Born to a father who described him as the chosen one” and a mother who called him the universal child,” Tiger Woods was groomed for the fame and influence that his parents believed was his destiny. At age twenty, he made his debut in a Nike commercial. Hello, world,” he said. Are you ready for me?” The world was ready. For the next thirteen years, Tiger nearly lived up to his...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

雷夫•艾斯奎斯（Rafe Esquith） 总统国家艺术奖 全美最佳教师奖 美国著名杂志《父母》年度“成长奖” 美国媒体天后欧普拉“善待生命奖” 英国女王颁发的不列颠帝国勋章 1981年毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校，现为美国洛杉矶市霍伯特小学的五年级教师。 30年来，雷夫•艾斯奎斯老师一直在霍伯特小学担任五年级的老师，该校高达九成的学生家庭贫困，且多出自非英语系的移民家庭。可是，就是在这样恶劣的环境下，雷夫老师创造了轰动全美的教育奇迹，被《纽约时报》尊称为“天才与圣徒”。 在第56号教室里，雷夫老师独创的阅读、数学等基础课程深受孩子们喜欢，他们如着迷般每天提前2小时到校，放学后数小时内仍不愿离去。 学生不仅取得高居全美标准化测试前5%的好成绩，而且雷夫还引导他们的人格成长，以“成功无捷径”作为学生的指导思想；他所提倡的“有自己的行为准则并奉行不悖”甚至与...(展开全部)

The Visual Story offers students and professionals in cinematography, production design, directing and screenwriting a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film or video. An understanding of the visual components will serve as the guide in the selection of locations, set dressing, props, wardrobe, lenses, camera positi...(展开全部)

This authoritative volume, written by one of the world's leading pioneers in the field, provides an integrative framework for the practice of drama therapy.