This book explains the success of the nineteenth century system of international convertibility and the calamitous collapse of the late 1920's and the attempt to bring it back to life. Also outlines the radical institutional reforms which might ward off these dangers.

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)

“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.” – People Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the ...(展开全部)

“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.” – People Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the ...(展开全部)

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst f...(展开全部)

巴里•埃森格林，当今国际学术界最活跃、最富影响力的著名经济学家之一。现任加州大学伯克利分校经济系 George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee 讲座教授，还是美国艺术科学学院院士、美国国家经济研究局（ NBER ）研究员、经济政策研究中心研究员和德国基尔世界经济研究所研究员。在宏观经济史、国际金融货币体系、金融危机理论、亚洲金融市场、外汇制度等领域做出了开创性的学术贡献，其关于金融危机、汇率制度和最优货币区的实证分析等方面的研究在国际学术界产生了非常重要的影响。作为国际经济政策历史（宏观经济史的分支）的学术奠基人，他的《黄金镣铐：金本位和大萧条》已成为国际上研究 “大萧条”的经典之作。此外，他也是国际货币体系演变史研究的奠基人之一。

作者斯图亚特·霍尔（Stuart Hall，1932年2月3日~2014年2月10日），当代文化研究之父、英国社会学教授、文化理论家、媒体理论家、文化研究批评家、思想家。他开启了学术工作政治化的先河。他在文化研究领域的主导地位和杰出成就，致力于媒介与大众文化研究迄今为止，尚未有一人能够超越他。曾任英国伯明翰大学的“当代文化研究中心”（Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies，简称CCCS）主任。 译者黄典林，中国传媒大学教授，博士生导师。

作者斯图亚特·霍尔（Stuart Hall，1932年2月3日~2014年2月10日），当代文化研究之父、英国社会学教授、文化理论家、媒体理论家、文化研究批评家、思想家。他开启了学术工作政治化的先河。他在文化研究领域的主导地位和杰出成就，致力于媒介与大众文化研究迄今为止，尚未有一人能够超越他。曾任英国伯明翰大学的“当代文化研究中心”（Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies，简称CCCS）主任。 译者黄典林，中国传媒大学教授，博士生导师。

'In a prologue set in 1901 London, a woman is apparently killed outside her home after her gold watch falls out of her pocket. Flash forward to 1991... playwright André Lévêque seeks help identifying a film he saw at a friend’s house when he was 10, whose story seems to match the circumstances of the 1901 crime. And in the winter of 1911, Victoria Sanders... has invited guests ...(展开全部)

Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and t...(展开全部)