In this fascinating tour through cultural, global, economic, and business history, icon of the financial world Robert Menschel explores the phenomenon of crowd psychology and its effects on business and culture. Explaining how crowd psychology creates market bubbles and irrational exuberance, Menschel mines world history—from the rise of the Nazis in Germany, to the fanatical l...(展开全部)

The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....(展开全部)

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease suffer...(展开全部)

David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public h...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness . . " The Cost of Capitalism is a must-read and a thoroughly enjoyable one�for those who want to understand. the Crisis of 2008 and hammer out a new framework for decision making." . Jared L. Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University . "Readers who absorb the lessons of this book will be armed wit...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Fear epidemics have plagued people for centuries, and in the past year Americans have weathered anthrax scares, fears of the end of good economic times and fears of terrorism. In his new book, Markets, Mobs & Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds, Robert Menschel, senior director of the Goldman Sachs Group, shows that, logically, it's "easy to co...(展开全部)

Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight's Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle wh...(展开全部)

方士清不想當零， 卻被一個戴著南瓜面具的男人搞了一次，接著兩人又再好上了第二次。 身體實在太過合拍，方士清有點喜歡上看不見模樣的男人了。 卻怎麼也想不到被他逼著摘下面具的男人，居然是他的姐夫王齊！！ 不，應該說是前姐夫了…… 自從意識到自己暗戀著姐夫的方士清，躲躲藏藏了好幾年， 沒想到還是栽了，他壓根兒不想談這麼複雜的感情呀……