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)

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)

汤姆·尼古拉斯（Tom Nicholas）：哈佛大学商学院教授，教授美国商业和经济史，并多次获得哈佛教学方面的奖项以及查尔斯·威廉姆斯优秀教学奖。 在哈佛任教之前，任教于MIT斯隆管理学院和伦敦政治经济学院。

Written by two leading film scholars, "Film History: An Introduction" is a comprehensive survey of film - from the backlots of Hollywood, across the United States, and around the world. As in the authors' bestselling "Film Art", concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use pu...(展开全部)

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides, previously published with the slightly different title China: Its Environment and History, a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, China: An Environmental History focuses on the interaction of humans and thei...(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)