Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Enginee...(展开全部)

Alan Greenspan conveys the education of a lifetime.

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federa...(展开全部)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis a...(展开全部)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis a...(展开全部)

Alan Greenspan conveys the education of a lifetime.

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federa...(展开全部)

美国联邦准备理事会前主席葛林斯潘，对世界金融市场的影响力仍举足轻重。九一一事件的冲击也让他看清，我们已然处于更弹性、变动更快速的动荡新世界。本书分为两部分，前半回顾一生，从孩提到联准会十八年的任期；后半则是淬炼其智识与洞见，以之解释全球化的趋势。 由本书高达八百五十万美金的版税即可推知它的重要性。 葛林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）从1987年开始担任美国联邦准备理事会主席，甫于2006年1月退休。他在世界金融圈呼风唤雨，影响力无人能及，是全球最有权势的人士之一。国际媒体对他推崇备至，人人视他为英雄与远见者、也是史上最棒的经济学家之一，但也有人批评他每每发言影响金融市场、干扰经济。 1987年，他担任联准会主席不久之后发生了股灾，造成全球经济风暴及恐慌；在这样的前车之鉴下，911事件发生之后，他立即着手准备相关的应变措施，避免严重的经济衰退、意...(展开全部)

Book Description This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and mod...(展开全部)

Book Description This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and mod...(展开全部)