When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008 it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs, living standards are still falling and Britons will be paying higher taxes for decades to pay the clean-...(展开全部)

A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.

洛伦•艾斯利（1907—1977）：美国考古学家、人类学家和科学散文作家。1907年9月生于内布拉斯加州，1937年于宾夕法尼亚大学取得博士学位。先后执教于堪萨斯大学、俄亥俄州欧柏林学院，1947年返回宾夕法尼亚大学任教，并担任人类学系系主任与博物馆馆长，1959年至1961年，任教务长。1961年至临终，他一直担任该校人类学与科学史系的本杰明•富兰克林教授。20世纪50到70年代，艾斯利发表了多篇随笔，题材广泛、思路深邃，展现了一位学者独到的创造力。

New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the s...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the s...(展开全部)

●英国知名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院名誉研究员。 ●毕业于牛津大学地质学系，曾任《卫报》海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》海外特派员，长期为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》及BBC等媒体撰稿。在温切斯特担任《卫报》记者期间，曾报道了举世哗然的“水门事件”。 ●作品选题涉猎广泛，尤其擅长叙事；写作视角独树一帜，能用渊博的知识给读者带来独特的阅读体验。出版了多部文学作品，第一本引起轰动的作品是1998年出版的《教授与疯子》，该书讲述的是《牛津英语词典》背后的故事，并从中揭示人的卑微与伟大。图书刚上市，销量就迅速攀升，一举登上《纽约时报》畅销榜。2019年，此书被翻拍成电影上市，由好莱坞两大著名影星肖恩·潘和梅尔·吉布森领衔主演。即使在20多年后的今天，这本书的平装版和精装版仍然在不断重印。此外，还著有《改变世界的地图》《世界边缘的裂痕》...(展开全部)

丹•凯利博士（Dr. Dan Kiley），美国著名心理学家和临床心理治疗师，伊利诺伊大学心理学博士。他在自己作为心理医生的临床实践中发现，自己治疗的很多男孩子都面临着成长的困扰，拒绝长大、拒绝承担责任。他用英国著名剧作家、小说家詹姆斯•巴里（James M. Barrie,1860～1937）的作品《彼得•潘》中的主人公为这种心理现象命名，出版了《彼得潘综合征：那些长不大的男人》一书，首次揭示了这一心理现象。本书出版后，立即引起轰动，并在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上榜6个多月，精装本在美国售出20多万册，平装本售出数百万册，并被翻译成22种语言，全球畅销1000多万册。

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology-was to create a German ...(展开全部)

The Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006. The Wages of Destruction won the Wolfson History Prize and the 2007 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Prize. It was published to critical praise from such authors as Michael Burleigh, Richard Over...(展开全部)

This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the United S...(展开全部)