In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria’s “cash and carry” system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it’s issued. What happens when two such radically different economies meet and mingle, as they have for centuries in Atlantic Africa? The answer is a rich diversity of economic prac...(展开全部)

For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han loc...(展开全部)

理查德·豪伊（1902年生）是著名的美国经济学（史）家，他于1926年获哈佛大学经济学学士，1929年获南加州大学经济学硕士，1955年获芝加哥大学经济学博士；1929年起任教于堪萨斯大学，历任经济学讲师、助理教授、副教授和教授，前后长达44年之久，直到1973年退休。豪伊教授还是一位闻名遐迩的经济学文献收藏家。

理查德·豪伊（1902年生）是著名的美国经济学（史）家，他于1926年获哈佛大学经济学学士，1929年获南加州大学经济学硕士，1955年获芝加哥大学经济学博士；1929年起任教于堪萨斯大学，历任经济学讲师、助理教授、副教授和教授，前后长达44年之久，直到1973年退休。豪伊教授还是一位闻名遐迩的经济学文献收藏家。

理查德·豪伊（1902年生）是著名的美国经济学（史）家，他于1926年获哈佛大学经济学学士，1929年获南加州大学经济学硕士，1955年获芝加哥大学经济学博士；1929年起任教于堪萨斯大学，历任经济学讲师、助理教授、副教授和教授，前后长达44年之久，直到1973年退休。豪伊教授还是一位闻名遐迩的经济学文献收藏家。

理查德·豪伊（1902年生）是著名的美国经济学（史）家，他于1926年获哈佛大学经济学学士，1929年获南加州大学经济学硕士，1955年获芝加哥大学经济学博士；1929年起任教于堪萨斯大学，历任经济学讲师、助理教授、副教授和教授，前后长达44年之久，直到1973年退休。豪伊教授还是一位闻名遐迩的经济学文献收藏家。

For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han loc...(展开全部)

Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's “old city” in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar—one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods and only a stone's throw from Tian’anmen Square—lived in dilapidated conditions without sanitation. Few had stable employment. Today, most of Dashalar's original inhabitant...(展开全部)

Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's “old city” in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar—one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods and only a stone's throw from Tian’anmen Square—lived in dilapidated conditions without sanitation. Few had stable employment. Today, most of Dashalar's original inhabitant...(展开全部)

This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won--for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "gene...(展开全部)