Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking ...(展开全部)

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking ...(展开全部)

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

Janey lived in the locked room.Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her be a whore.Otherwise ther was nothing.One day she found a pencial stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink"(her father,who is also her boyfriend,has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her...(展开全部)

An earnestly honest guy who doesn’t even grant pipe dreams to himself, physiologically incapable of letting a single contradiction go, in other words me, got dragged this June to a renowned academy for rich girls, no questions allowed, by the world’s strongest contractor. No matter how you put it, no matter how you spin it, there was probably no point to it. Because the case th...(展开全部)