A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption. Bill Browder’s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in ...(展开全部)

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption. Bill Browder’s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When Braid Beard's pirate crew invites Jeremy Jacob to join their voyage, he jumps right on board. Buried treasure, sea chanteys, pirate talk--who wouldn't go along? Soon Jeremy Jacob knows all about being a pirate. He throws his food across the table and his manners to the wind. He hollers like thunder and laughs off bedtime. It's the heave-ho, blow-the-man-down, very ...(展开全部)

梅林达·朗 在美国，梅琳达不仅仅是个童书作家，还是一位非常有影响力的教师。她的创作灵感大多来源于小时候的经历和幻想。她写出这段海盗故事，就是因为童年的时候在自家后院玩过藏宝游戏。除了《千万别去当海盗》《海盗从不换尿布》，她的得意之作还有《海盗活动手册》《当爸爸打鼾时》。《千万别去当海盗》出版后，获得了美国国家亲子出版奖、国际阅读学会、美国童书协会儿童评选最爱童书，并持续位居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。据说，在创作这则故事时，梅琳达满口都是流利的海盗话，离她家不远的地方还有个著名的海盗窝呢。 大卫·夏农 一个海盗话不太流利的画家。1959年生于华盛顿。擅长运用油画技法创作绘本，他的作品画面饱满、色彩浓郁，焕发出勃勃的生机。除了会讲海盗话，他还懂 “鸭子语”呢，他的《鸭子骑车记》深受小朋友的喜爱。他还创作过《下雨了》《大卫不可以》《大卫上学去》等绘本，作品...(展开全部)

斯蒂夫·赫利(Steve Hely)，美国作家，编剧。毕业于哈佛大学，在校期间曾担任哈佛校园最知名的刊物《哈佛妙文》的社长。毕业后从事编剧工作，为脱口秀节目《戴维·莱特曼晚间秀》、喜剧卡通片《美国老爹》、电视剧《我为喜剧狂》担任编剧及制作人，所参与节 目多次获得美国电视界类最高奖项艾美奖。与人合著漫画游记《荒唐的赛跑》。

What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake; and&#8212perhaps mostly importantly&#8212the chance to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her w...(展开全部)

Western classical music has become as Chinese as Peking Opera, and it has woven its way into the hearts and lives of ordinary Chinese people. This lucidly written account traces the biographies of the bold visionaries who carried out this musical merger. Rhapsody in Red is a history of classical music in China that revolves around a common theme: how Western classical music ent...(展开全部)

Sheila Melvin lived in China from 1995 until September of 2000. She now splits her time between the US and China, with bases in Baton Rouge and Beijing. Sheila Melvin is a regular contributor to The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. She often writes on music-related subjects, including Western classical...(展开全部)

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. The authors revitalise the debate around the rise of the Chinese economy through the use of primary sources, persu...(展开全部)