In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles are locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter -- or foretell its violent, bloody end. Bhekar Ro: a bleak, backwater world on...(展开全部)

资中筠，1951年清华大学西方语言文学系毕业。国际政治及美国研究专家，资深学者、翻译家。中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。曾任中国社会科学院美国研究所所长、《美国研究》主编、研究员。 参与创办《美国研究》杂志和中华美国学会，创立“中美关系史研究会”并任第一、第二届会长。 主要著作：《追根溯源：战后美国对华政策的缘起与发展，1945-1950》、《战后美国外交史：从杜鲁门到里根》、《二十世纪的美国》（主编《冷眼向洋：百年风云启示录》之一）、《资中筠集》（学术论文）。随笔集：《斗室中的天下》、《锦瑟无端》、《读书人的出世与入世》、《学海岸边》（与陈乐民合集）、《资中筠自选集》（五卷），《美国十讲》、《老生常谈》等。 翻译有巴尔扎克（法国）、薇拉•凯瑟（美国）、阿兰•德波顿（英国）等人的著作。

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence. In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. H...(展开全部)