The distinguishing feature for many workers in South Korea is contractual - and often involuntary - retirement at a young age (mid-50s for most workers) followed by precarious and low-paying self-employment or contract work. In the past this practice, which is also found in other East Asian nations, provided firms with a youthful and highly productive workforce. However, with a...(展开全部)

作者簡介 羅伯特．博因頓（Robert S. Boynton） 紐約大學教授，在亞瑟．卡特（Arthur L. Carter）新聞學院開設報導文學課程。文章見於《紐約客》、《大西洋月刊》、《紐約時報》與其他報章雜誌，著有《非請勿入區：北韓綁架計畫的真實故事》（2016）、《新新新聞》（The New New Journalism, Vintage, 2005）等書。 譯者簡介 黃煜文 台灣大學歷史研究所碩士，資深譯者，譯有《當帝國回到家：戰後日本的引揚與重整》、《我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活》、《在緬甸尋找喬治歐威爾》、《自願被吃的豬》、《鴨子中了大樂透》、《閱讀蒙田，是為了生活》、《為什麼是凱因斯？》、《歷史的歷史：史學家和他們的歷史時代》、《如何寫歷史？》、《王者之聲：宣戰時刻》、《氣候變遷政治學》等書。

Money Games is a riveting tale of one of the most successful buyout deals ever: the acquisition and turnaround of what used to be Korea’s largest bank by the American firm Newbridge Capital. Full of intrigue and suspense, this insider's account is told by the chief architect of the deal itself, the celebrated author and private equity investor Weijian Shan. With billions of dol...(展开全部)

Money Games is a riveting tale of one of the most successful buyout deals ever: the acquisition and turnaround of what used to be Korea’s largest bank by the American firm Newbridge Capital. Full of intrigue and suspense, this insider's account is told by the chief architect of the deal itself, the celebrated author and private equity investor Weijian Shan. With billions of dol...(展开全部)

Through thick veils of opaque, incantatory prose, fragments of the narrator's life emerge in this cryptic novel, winner of the Prix Medicis in 1969, by a French feminist and critic. The title tells it all: from beginning to end we are locked inside the mind and memory, dream-life and fantasy of the narrator as she mourns the untimely death of her venerated father. So submerged ...(展开全部)

The Supernatural North is the latest in a long line of books by Darren W Ritson. This exciting new volume details scores of the most terrifying ghost tales and supernatural legends that the north of E

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and...(展开全部)

马塞尔·索鲁（Marcel Theroux） 英国作家、编剧、主持人。毛姆奖、约翰·W·坎贝尔纪念奖等多项大奖得主。代表作《极北》出版后备受读者好评，先后入围美国国家图书奖、亚瑟·C·克拉克奖。

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and...(展开全部)

马塞尔·索鲁（Marcel Theroux） 英国作家、编剧、主持人。毛姆奖、约翰·W·坎贝尔纪念奖等多项大奖得主。代表作《极北》出版后备受读者好评，先后入围美国国家图书奖、亚瑟·C·克拉克奖。