From the Rougon-Macquart Series: Money (L'Argent): After a disastrous speculation, Aristide Saccard was forced to sell his mansion and to cast about for means of creating a fresh fortune. Chance made him acquainted with Hamelin, an engineer whose residence in the East had suggested to him financial schemes which at once attracted the attention of Saccard. With a view to financi...(展开全部)

Turn Time into Money!If you're under 40, you may not have a lot of money, but you're loaded with a valuable resource: time. It probably doesn't seem like it when you're looking at your student loan debt or scraping up rent money each month.

From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America's banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen i...(展开全部)

From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen i...(展开全部)

From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen i...(展开全部)

From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen i...(展开全部)

米尔顿•弗里德曼，诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国斯坦福大学胡佛研究所资深研究员，芝加哥大学经济学荣誉教授，他与夫人及长期合作者罗丝•弗里德曼合著的《自由选择》一书，享誉世界。

拉德卡·德内玛尔科娃（1968- ），捷克作家、剧作家及翻译家，也是唯一一位四次获得捷克颇负盛名的Magnesia Litera文学奖的作家。德内玛尔科娃一九六八年生于捷克库特纳霍拉，后就读布拉格查理大学日耳曼研究及波希米亚研究专业，一九九七年获得博士学位，曾在捷克科学院捷克文学研究所担任研究员，二〇〇四年起至今一直为自由撰稿人。二〇〇六年出版小说《希特勒金钱》，并凭借该作于二〇〇七年获得Magnesia Litera文学奖。现居布拉格，其作品被翻译成十九种语言出版。

作者简介： 亚当•弗格森（Adam Fergusson），1932年出生于苏格兰。剑桥大学历史系毕业后，曾任《格拉斯哥先驱报》《统计学家报》与《泰晤士报》记者。他担任过欧洲议会成员、英国外交部特别顾问及欧洲国际工商事务顾问等数职。目前任英国皇家文学学会会员。

In this timeless classic that topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1966 and 1967, Sam Levenson recalls his childhood with the warmth and affectionate humor that endeared the author and humoris