As the global economy is racked by its worst crisis since the Great Depression, there is a renewed interest in the lessons to be learned from the world economic collapse of the late 1920s. Drawing on his best-selling book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, noted author Liaquat Ahamed discusses the insights we can gain from the Great Depression about the forces ...(展开全部)

Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But in the 1960s, four maveric...(展开全部)

A riveting tale of the battle over genetically engineered foods, and an inside look at a biotech food empire. Ultimately a story of idealism, and conflicting dreams about the shape of a better world. Softcover.

The common fruit fly, Drosophila, has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the center of Drosophila culture in America was the school of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students Alfred Sturtevant and Calvin Bridges. They first created “standard” flies through inbreeding and by organizing a network for exchanging stocks of flies that spre...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·伦纳德（Christopher Leonard） 商业记者，其作品曾刊登在《华盛顿邮报》《华尔街日报》《财富》《彭博商业周刊》上。他因深刻的报道，多次获得新闻界知名奖项。他曾出版《隐秘帝国：美国工业经济和企业权力的兴衰》，该书荣获：2019年《纽约时报》畅销书、英国《金融时报》2019年度最佳书籍、J．安东尼·卢卡斯WIP奖、2019年NPR最受欢迎的书、2019年《金融时报》/麦肯锡商业图书奖入围决赛、KIRKUS回顾2019年最佳书籍、2019年度《学校图书馆杂志》最佳图书。

"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." -- The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of cent...(展开全部)

 拥有20多年工作经历的职业投资经理人。曾任世界银行投行部主管，现任Rock Creek Group 和Rohatyn Group等著名对冲基金的投资顾问，也是美国阿斯彭保险公司董事和布鲁金斯学会理事。  本书历时4年创作完成，对几位中央银行家的批评和对“大萧条”的系统回顾，成为对2008年金融危机的重要反思和借鉴。

With a keen sense of history and compelling narrative skills, Liaquat Ahamed gives us a vivid and dramatic account of four men whose actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s. Many of us presume that the Great Depression resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as economist Liaquat Ahamed expla...(展开全部)

Upon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. She directly ruled Palestine and Aden, was the kingmaker in Iran, the power behind the thrones of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, and protected the sultan of Oman and the Gulf sheikhs. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa were changing. Where ‘imperial security’ – control o...(展开全部)

Upon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. She directly ruled Palestine and Aden, was the kingmaker in Iran, the power behind the thrones of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, and protected the sultan of Oman and the Gulf sheikhs. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa were changing. Where ‘imperial security’ – control o...(展开全部)