Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Originally publi...(展开全部)

Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Now, with the sto...(展开全部)

A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden! The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But...(展开全部)

"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." -- The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of cent...(展开全部)

 拥有20多年工作经历的职业投资经理人。曾任世界银行投行部主管，现任Rock Creek Group 和Rohatyn Group等著名对冲基金的投资顾问，也是美国阿斯彭保险公司董事和布鲁金斯学会理事。  本书历时4年创作完成，对几位中央银行家的批评和对“大萧条”的系统回顾，成为对2008年金融危机的重要反思和借鉴。

With a keen sense of history and compelling narrative skills, Liaquat Ahamed gives us a vivid and dramatic account of four men whose actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s. Many of us presume that the Great Depression resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as economist Liaquat Ahamed expla...(展开全部)

作者简介： 城山智子（SHIROYAMA, Tomoko）日本东京大学学士、硕士，1999年获美国哈佛大学历史学博士学位。历任日本北海道大学文学部助教授，一桥大学大学院经济学研究科助教授、准教授、教授，现为东京大学大学院经济学研究科教授。专攻中国近现代经济史，特别是近代中国的货币、金融和企业，兼及18世纪以来的亚洲经济史。其博士论文为《萧条下的中国：1931—1937年间长江三角洲下游的地区经济》（哈佛大学， 1999）； 最新研究成果为“负债中的公司：1895-1937年间长江三角洲下游纺织业财务安排之研究”。正在共同主持日本多所大学合作大型研究课题“帝国与网络：亚洲地区经济秩序”。 译者之一简介： 孟凡礼，2006年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院，历史学硕士。主要译著有：《论自由》（[英]约翰·穆勒著，广西师范大学出版社2011年版/上海三联书店2...(展开全部)

[美]克莉丝汀·汉娜 1960年出生于美国南加州，曾在广告公司工作，也当过律师。可她心中始终记得母亲说过：“你将来注定要当作家的。”事实证明母亲的话永远是正确的。 现在，克里斯汀·汉娜已经是23本畅销书的作者，作品畅销全球50个国家和地区，全系列销量超过2000万册，被誉为美国当代小说天后。

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he end...(展开全部)

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establish...(展开全部)