When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and caring for a baby. Much to do with becoming a mother, past or present, is lost or forgotten. Using the arc of her own ...(展开全部)

In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and litt...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 During his fourteen years as Yale's chief investment officer, David F. Swensen has transformed the management of the university's portfolio. Largely by focusing on nonconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity, Swensen has achieved an annualized return of 16.2 percent, which has propelled Yale's endowment into the top tier of institutional...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 During his fourteen years as Yale's chief investment officer, David F. Swensen has transformed the management of the university's portfolio. Largely by focusing on nonconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity, Swensen has achieved an annualized return of 16.2 percent, which has propelled Yale's endowment into the top tier of institutional...(展开全部)

奇迹降临到她头上，她得到的远超预期。 艾比渴望一个孩子，胜过一切。 但多年来，不孕不育治疗失败，领养计划也屡屡受挫，她似乎对未来遥不可及。 直到她的私人助理莫妮卡慷慨解囊，提出为她代理。这份提议将使艾比的所有梦想成真。 但很快，怪事接踵而至。莫妮卡的真面目被揭开。如今，这位怀着艾比孩子的女人，背后隐藏着一个不可告人的秘密。 为了得到她想要的东西，她会不择手段。 《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的作者芙蕾达·麦克法登，倾情奉献了这部引人入胜的作品，重新定义了家庭的意义…… She was promised a miracle. She got more then she bargained for. Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treat...(展开全部)

A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. VC tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the United States’ long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. Venture capital has been driven from the start by the...(展开全部)

马立博（Robert B. Marks， 又译罗伯特•B•马克斯），1978 年获威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校中国史专业博士学位，长期任教于加州惠特尔学院， 现任Richard and Billie Deihl历史学讲座教授。马立博教授在中国史、全球史和环境史等领域均著作颇丰， 他的论文“Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China,1550-1850” 曾获1997 年美国环境史学会Environmental History 杂志最佳论文奖。除本书以外，他的主要著作还包括RuralRevolution in South China (1984)，TheMaking of the Modern World ( 合著，1988，19...(展开全部)

An epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex and intimate ties to the United States--from the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the present day--written by a celebrated New York University professor and daughter of Cuban immigrants. In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raul Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political ...(展开全部)

As a state, Romania has only been in existence since 1859, but the history of its people stretches to the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, to the Geto-Dacians and Romans. This concise history tells the fascinating story of the evolution of the Romanian people, the creation of the Romanian Principalities, their struggle against empire-building powers, and their eventual unifi...(展开全部)