As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel— one we’re actually told to follow—and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collaps...(展开全部)

张嘉璈（1889-1979），字公权，江苏宝山人，民国著名银行家。早年求学于日本庆应大学，学习现代经济、金融理论。回国初期受梁启超提携，曾在袁世凯政府有短暂经历。后进入金融界，先后担任中国银行副总裁、总裁，中央银行总裁、中央信托局局长；期间还曾担任铁道部部长、交通部部长。任职银行界时，张嘉璈先生用其所学现代经济和银行知识，重塑中国的银行业，更以其刚毅的性格和掌握的现代商业规则，最大程度地保证了银行的独立性，引领了中国新式商业银行的发展方向，尤其奠定了中国银行后续近百年的国际声望；其关于中央银行的思想，在当时同步于世界，对半个世纪之后的中国仍有影响。他因此获得了“中国现代银行之父”“民国银行先行者”的美誉。任职铁道/交通部部长期间，张嘉璈积极推动铁路、公路事业发展，为支持抗战做出了重大贡献；其于1938年命令卢作孚先生的民生公司转运入川人员和军品商货，...(展开全部)

Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. In The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the intricate brain processes that cause depression and offers a practical and effective approach to getting better. Based on the latest research in neuroscience, this book provides dozens of straightforward tips you c...(展开全部)

Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. In The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the intricate brain processes that cause depression and offers a practical and effective approach to getting better. Based on the latest research in neuroscience, this book provides dozens of straightforward tips you c...(展开全部)

Through the eyes of the leading Party cadre in Lin Village in southeast China, this book unravels the turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise to political power of poor peasants, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and rece...(展开全部)