The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news communi...(展开全部)

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. T...(展开全部)

威廉 D. 科汉 William D. Cohan 《纽约时报》畅销书《纸牌屋》和《最后的大亨》的作者，获得2007年年度《金融时报》-高盛年度商务图书奖。他是《名利场》的特约编辑，在《纽约时报》有双周刊专栏，长期为《金融时报》、《财富》、《大西洋月刊》、《华盛顿邮报》和其他报刊撰稿。科汉毕业于杜克大学、哥伦比亚大学新闻学院和商学院，他曾经是一名投资银行家。 为了全面真实地再现高盛，科汉详细阅读了大量的政府文件、法庭案卷、证券交易委员会的存档资料，采访了100多位高盛的客户、对手、领导人、现任和前任雇员，以记者天生的敏锐及小说家的天赋，结合华尔街业内人士的专业知识揭开高盛的神秘面纱。

A thorough examination of the Cold War, taken from interviews with leading participants on both sides of the Iron Curtain for a major ten- part radio programme to be broadcast by the BBC World Service and in abbreviated form by BBC Radio Four, later in 1993. This major work will provide an insight into what the Cold War was like for those who were involved in running it, and fo...(展开全部)

"The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today's best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it." It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills--and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasi...(展开全部)

In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest known system of writing...(展开全部)

The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current predicament is a catastrophe rivaled only by the Great Depression. Taking an in-depth look at the history of both, they explain what went wrong and why, and demonstrat...(展开全部)

安德鲁·克雷格（Andrew Craig） 英国伦敦金融城20余年工作经验，曾就职于瑞银欧债部、股票部，法国农业信贷银行，专业生物技术投资银行等。在其金融职业生涯中，曾参与巴宝莉、易捷航空等数十家知名公司的IPO。 2011年创立个人理财网站，此后经常受邀在《星期日邮报》（The Mail on Sunday）、《镜报》（The Mirror）、《财经周刊》（MoneyWeek）等发表评论，也多次接受彭博社等专业媒体及电视台的专访。