安．特魯貝克Anne Trubek 目前為《BELT》雜誌的總編輯，撰寫眾多文章刊於《紐約時報》、《大西洋雜誌》、《WIRED連線雜誌》等處。她的文筆以風趣流暢著稱，其間不時穿插大小知識，出道作《A Skeptic's Guide to Writer's Houses》就是一本以導覽形式敘述小書迷參觀大作家故居的有趣書籍。而在本書《The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting》裡，她也像個導航員般，以深入淺出的文字帶領讀者瀏覽幾千年的西方手寫歷史。 想更了解作者，可見：http://www.annetrubek.com

【作者简介】 [奥]瓦尔特·沙伊德尔（Walter Scheidel），生于奥地利，目前在斯坦福大学教授古代历史，主要研究领域是古代历史和经济史、前现代历史人口学，以及世界史比较和跨学科研究方法。 【译者简介】 祁长保，毕业于国际关系学院，曾从事医药贸易工作。译有《黑斯巴达克斯：海地国父杜桑·卢维杜尔传》《苍白的骑士：西班牙流感如何改变了世界》。

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row―a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug o...(展开全部)

安妮·凯斯（Anne Case） 普林斯顿大学1886年亚历山大·斯图尔特经济学和公共事务教授、伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院荣誉教授，2020年当选美国国家科学院院士。她也是美国国家经济研究局研究员、计量经济学会会员，美国国家医学学会、美国艺术与科学学会和美国哲学学会成员，曾获得国际卫生经济学协会的肯尼斯·阿罗健康经济学奖、美国国家科学院院刊科扎雷利奖。 安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton） 2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，普林斯顿大学德怀特·艾森豪威尔经济学和国际事务名誉教授。此前曾任美国经济学会主席、世界银行研究审核委员会主席等。他的主要研究领域为贫困、不平等、健康、福祉和经济发展等，著有《逃离不平等》。 2019年，《展望》杂志将安格斯·迪顿和安妮·凯斯评为年度“世界50大思想家”。

As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices ...(展开全部)

STEP INTO THE CITY When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different libr...(展开全部)