埃马纽埃尔·卡雷尔，1957年生于巴黎，法国当代著名作家、编剧、制片人，法国国宝级历史学家路易斯·卡雷尔之子。他毕业于著名的巴黎高等政治学院，从1983年出版了第一部小说《美洲豹的朋友》以来，共出版了十多本小说，编导了近二十部电影和电视剧；2010年起，当选为戛纳电影节 评选委员会委员。卡雷尔还获得 “科幻小说大奖” “费米娜文学大奖” “雷诺多文学奖” “法兰西学院奖” “法语文学大奖” “意大利蒙德洛国际文学奖” 等十几个文学奖。 作者擅长从新闻中取材，创作介乎虚构与非虚构之间，既有新闻记者捕捉新闻点的敏锐，又有小说家建构故事和挖掘人物内心世界的天赋。 电影人的视角使得他的作品极具画面感和带入感。他是法国当代少有的既受文学奖项青睐，又有极好市场反应的作家。

Editorial Reviews Review "...a splendid work, a breathtaking synthesis that is at once erudite and accessible, illuminating and a pleasure to read." Daniel J. Kevles "Loren Graham's informative history...leaves one wondering how science could function at all....The remaining, very open, question is: How well will a newly freed Russian science survive the removal of the Soviet h...(展开全部)

By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that re...(展开全部)

Alan Greenspan conveys the education of a lifetime.

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federa...(展开全部)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis a...(展开全部)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis a...(展开全部)

This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015.

A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door... is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bar...(展开全部)

A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world—and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and div...(展开全部)