Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking ...(展开全部)

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking ...(展开全部)

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a drama...(展开全部)

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a drama...(展开全部)

著名电影导演，与法斯宾德、施隆多夫和赫尔措格并称为“德国新电影四杰”，是20世纪70年代“新德国电影运动”（New German Cinema） 的代表人物之一。 文德斯 1945年出生于德国杜塞尔多夫，1963-1965年在慕尼黑大学学习医学及哲学专业，1966年投考巴黎高等电影学院失败，用一年时间在巴黎电影资料馆观摩大量影片自学成才。1970年代，受当时美国公路电影的启发，以及出于少年时对西部片的喜爱，文德斯开始拍摄属于自己的欧洲式的公路电影，并由此奠定了他日后的创作方向，开始了他在光影世界里的漫漫流浪。在他的著名电影作品《德州巴黎》、《美国朋友》、《柏林苍穹下》、《直到世界末日》……中，流浪与疏离成为永远的主角，文德斯也借由这两个元素在银幕上创造出一个个充满诗意与虚空感的世界，赢得了评论家和观众们的喜爱，并多次荣获戛纳、柏林、威尼斯等国际电影节...(展开全部)

This is the mesmerising story of the very first meeting of those two legends and friends, Lee Scoresby, the Texan balloonist, and Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear. When Lee and his daemon, Hester, land in the Arctic town of Novy Odense, they quickly become embroiled in an out-and-out political brawl. So when Iorek offers to help, Lee is only too happy to accept. Together they ...(展开全部)