The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our ...(展开全部)

The first edition of Charles Kindleberger's brilliant, panoramic history, published in 1978, summarized the pattern of market developments and the five stages in the evolution of a financial crisis. Robert Z. Aliber probes the sequence of four waves of crises that have involved more than forty countries since the early 1980s and shows that implosions of their banking systems do...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Fifth Edition is an engaging and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective. The up...(展开全部)

Here is a colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of the commerce conducted at the celebrated Frankfurt Book Fair all the way from its humble beginnings in the Middle Ages. Through the ensuing centuries, the fortunes of the fair have waxed and waned. Following the Second World War, a spirit of renewal was engendered that has been maintained ever since. In recent yea...(展开全部)

"The need for realism in reform of its monetary system is what makes Bernstein's story of the Power of Gold so timely. It is a compelling reminder that maintaining a fixed price for gold and fixed exchange rates were difficult even in a simpler financial environment...Peter Bernstein was reluctant to project the story of gold into the future. But to me his message was clear. Ye...(展开全部)

Klaus Fischer charts the tortured history of German-Jewish relations over a millennium, from migration and ghettoization in the Middle Ages to enlightenment and emancipation in the eighteenth century to varieties of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Second Reich to the rise of pathological Judeophobia in the years 1918 to 1933. The aim of the book is to provide a historical explana...(展开全部)

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罗德里克·卡夫，印刷史学家，图书馆长，联合国教科文组织及大英图书馆顾问，拥有大量珍本书藏书，并在世界各地的图书馆及大学开设信息学课程。著有 THE PRIVATE PRESS（《私人出版社》） Impressions of Nature: A History of Na ture Printing（《自然的印象：自然印刷法的历史》）等。 萨拉·阿亚德，一生都在研究书，她作过图书管理员、书商、编辑、艺术史学家、图片研究者，她将对文字和视觉艺术的兴趣紧密结合在一起。

主编 詹姆斯·拉文(JamesRaven)，英国国家学术院院士，剑桥大学莫德林学院院士，创桥书籍项目信托基金会主任，埃塞克斯大学现代史荣休教授。 译者 李家真，川人，一九七二年生，曾任《中国文学》执行主编及《英语学习》副主编。写有大量随笔，译有《泰戈尔英文诗集全集》《纪伯伦诗集》《丘吉尔传》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《王尔德小说童话全集》《培根随笔全集》《瓦尔登湖》《两河一周》《鳕鱼海岬》《缅因森林》《呆厮国志》《论人》《论批评·云鬓劫》等作品。