Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and o...(展开全部)

Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period i...(展开全部)

A firsthand survey of the most original graffiti scene to emerge in the past decade. From the startlingly distinctive achievements of the internationally renowned twin-brother painters Os Gemeos to the visual powers of the ubiquitous daredevil Pichadores, Brazil's graffiti captivates with entirely fresh ideas, techniques, and messages. Whether one's taste is for the extraordi...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯•贝斯特（Nicholas Best）在英国和都柏林的圣三一学院接受教育。他曾在英国近卫步兵第一团服役，后在伦敦当记者。他为英国《金融时报》担任小说评论员长达十年时间，并著有讲述第一次世界大战结束时的故事的《历史上最伟大的一天》。

英媒：二战背景下引人关注的人物故事 2012年03月26日 12:24:22 来源： 新华网 上周出版的《震惊世界的五天》为英国—爱尔兰混血作家尼古拉斯·贝斯特所著，它从1945年4月28日上午开始讲起：意大利游击队员叫醒贝尼托·墨索里尼，然后用车把他及其情妇克拉拉·佩塔奇带到科莫湖边枪决。全书以1945年5月2日结束，随着希特勒在地堡中自杀的消息传遍全世界，柏林最后的守卫者缴械投降。英媒称，一本新书透过二战高潮时期的数十个人物的故事，从一个吸引人的角度让人们对这场冲突有了全新的了解。 据英国《泰晤士报》报道，《震惊世界的五天》以重大事件为背景，像拍快照一样介绍了一些重要人物当时身在何处，在做些什么。 在那不勒斯，10岁的索菲娅·罗兰与母亲和妹妹生活在极度贫困之中，她的一边脸颊在空袭中为弹片所伤。一个年轻的美国大兵与这家人成了朋友。他在日记中写道...(展开全部)

Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. This quote from Andrew Graham Dixon describes the book: 'Spanning continents and millennia, ranging from man's earliest cave paintings to the works of Picasso and beyond, this is a hugely ambitious book. But thanks to the breadth of the...(展开全部)

The book contains over 130 quantitative questions collected from actual investment banking, investment management, and options trading job interviews. The interviewers use the same questions year after year and here they are! These questions come from all types of interviews (corporate finance, sales and trading, quantitative research, etc), but they are especially likely in q...(展开全部)

An in-depth look at strategies and techniques of five of the country's best money managers In Five Key Lessons from Top Money Managers, Scott Kays taps into the investment knowledge of five of the nation's foremost money managers-Bill Nygren, Andy Stephens, Christopher Davis, Bill Fries, and John Calamos. Through extensive interviews with these investment experts, Kays found fi...(展开全部)