The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance—and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it’s clear, rest on understanding finance itself. To understand finance, however, we have to learn its history, and this book fills that need. Kevin R. Brine, a...(展开全部)

凯文·R.布莱恩（Kevin R. Brine）获得纽约大学斯特恩商学院MBA，同时是美国纽约大学基金会的托管人。他是一名跨界的华尔街资深人士，曾在安联资产管理集团公司旗下的贝恩斯坦投资公司担任二十余年的董事会成员和高管，该公司负责管理的资产达到2000多亿美元，他直接负责私人银行业务。他后来在一家纽约证券交易保险公司的董事会任职。 玛丽·普维（Mary Poovey），曾任纽约大学人文学科教授、纽约知识产品历史研究所所长。她的研究领域集中于18、19世纪的英国文学、历史和文化，出版的学术著作包括18世纪的英国文学和文化、文学批评史、女性主义理论和经济史。她著有多部作品，包括《现代事实的历史：财富和社会科学的知识问题》《信贷经济的类型：十八、十九世纪英国的中介价值》等。

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of “free labor” and the urgent need to end slavery. In his introduction, Robin Blackburn argues that Lincoln’s response signaled the importance of the German American community and the role of the international com...(展开全部)

The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lo...(展开全部)

This title represents the fruit of nearly 15 years of discussion - in person and by letter - between world-famous philosopher, Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) and Dr. Beata Polonowska-Sygulska of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Berlin always felt a special affinity for scholars of Eastern Europe, and the unique chemistry between him and his younger enthusiast for his ideas...(展开全部)

The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lo...(展开全部)

This title represents the fruit of nearly 15 years of discussion - in person and by letter - between world-famous philosopher, Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) and Dr. Beata Polonowska-Sygulska of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Berlin always felt a special affinity for scholars of Eastern Europe, and the unique chemistry between him and his younger enthusiast for his ideas...(展开全部)

A new B-format edition of JRR Tolkien's legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and n...(展开全部)

A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. VC tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the United States’ long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. Venture capital has been driven from the start by the...(展开全部)

马立博（Robert B. Marks， 又译罗伯特•B•马克斯），1978 年获威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校中国史专业博士学位，长期任教于加州惠特尔学院， 现任Richard and Billie Deihl历史学讲座教授。马立博教授在中国史、全球史和环境史等领域均著作颇丰， 他的论文“Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China,1550-1850” 曾获1997 年美国环境史学会Environmental History 杂志最佳论文奖。除本书以外，他的主要著作还包括RuralRevolution in South China (1984)，TheMaking of the Modern World ( 合著，1988，19...(展开全部)