弗兰克·帕特诺伊（Frank Partnoy），现任圣迭戈大学法学院教授。早年从耶鲁大学法学院毕业后，先进入瑞士信贷第一波士顿银行，开始了在华尔街的职业生涯；后转投著名投资银行摩根士丹利，成为世界上最能赚钱的人群中的一员。他是证券市场监管和金融衍生产品方面的专家，曾在安然公司破产后作为专家证人在美国参议院立法委员会作证。他撰写的华尔街金融畅销书《泥鸽靶》详细揭露了金融市场内幕，因而轰动一时。

弗兰克·帕特诺伊（Frank Partnoy），现任圣迭戈大学法学院教授。早年从耶鲁大学法学院毕业后，先进入瑞士信贷第一波士顿银行，开始了在华尔街的职业生涯；后转投著名投资银行摩根士丹利，成为世界上最能赚钱的人群中的一员。他是证券市场监管和金融衍生产品方面的专家，曾在安然公司破产后作为专家证人在美国参议院立法委员会作证。他撰写的华尔街金融畅销书《泥鸽靶》详细揭露了金融市场内幕，因而轰动一时。

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“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the...(展开全部)

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罗伯特•休斯（Robert Hughes，1938－2012） 澳大利亚人，当代著名艺术评论家、作家、历史学家。他曾任美国《时代》周刊的首席艺术评论员，并为该刊撰写艺术评论长达三十年之久。在当代艺术运动不被认可的岁月里，他化身成为了传统主义的鞭笞者和一名艺术斗士。曾著有《绝对批评》、《致命的海滩》等。 译者简介 欧阳昱，男，1955年出生于湖北。作家、诗人、翻译家。

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, "The Wapshot Scandal" is filled wit...(展开全部)

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst f...(展开全部)