国际货币基金组织前任经济师的新书认为，全球经济就要走到一个三岔路口。在当前的政策分歧面前，央行似乎已经尽其所能，现在改善长期增长的负担应该落到政客们身上了。过去七年，全球央行行长们度过了一段非常时期。他们把发达国家的利率降到了零甚至更低，还前所未有地扩展了其资产负债表来购买政府债券。尽管大部分经济学家都认同，金融危机过后需要强有力的行动来避免大萧条重演，但这种货币刺激方案的规模和长期性还是引发了一些人的担忧。 曾任国际货币基金组织经济师、太平洋投资管理公司（Pimco）前主管的穆罕默德·埃尔-埃利安（Mohamed El-Erian）在书中指出，虽然央行“避免了巨大的人类苦难”，但它们未能创造出西方世界真正需要的东西：“持久的、包容性的高增长与真正的金融稳定性并举”。更糟的是，政客们已经变得依赖央行作为提供经济刺激的主要来源，其结果是他们“未能强力推...(展开全部)

彼得·霍普柯克（1930—2014） 彼得·霍普柯克的足迹遍布中亚、高加索、中国、印度、巴基斯坦、伊朗和东土耳其，撰写了六本与这些地区相关的书。在成为专职作家之前，他在独立电视新闻（ITN）做了两年记者，随后在《泰晤士报》工作了近二十年，其中五年是作为该报的高级记者，后期主要是作为中东及远东事务特派员。在上世纪50年代，他是西部非洲的新闻杂志《鼓》（Drum）的编辑，该杂志是一本声名远播的南非同名杂志的姊妹刊。在成为记者之前，他曾在英国皇家非洲步兵团服役，与后来的乌干达独裁者、当时的一等兵伊迪·阿明在一个营。他也曾经历险境，曾在古巴和中东两次被秘密警察拘禁，还被阿拉伯恐怖分子劫持过。他的作品被翻译成了十四种文字。1999年他被英国皇家学会亚洲事务部授予珀西·塞克斯爵士纪念勋章。

Product Description The Origin of Financial Crises provides a compelling analysis of the forces behind today's economic crisis. In a series of disarmingly simple arguments George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy, explaining why financial markets do not obey the efficient market principles described in today's economic textbooks but are instead...(展开全部)

Count Dracula meets Bonnie Parker. What will they do together? The vampire you'd hate to love, sinister and debonair, sinks those eye teeth into Bonnie's succulent throat.' Is this the beginning of a sadistic relationship or simply an extract from a psychopath's diary? Either way it marks the beginning of a dangerous game that is destined to end in chilling terror and bloody mu...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway ...(展开全部)

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway ...(展开全部)

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But ...(展开全部)

凯瑟琳･艾波盖特为儿童和青少年创作了很多本书，包括图画书《巴法罗风暴》以及桥梁书《瑞利的规则》系列等。她的小说《勇敢者之家》曾获得金风筝最佳小说奖、乔塞特•弗兰克儿童小说奖，以及纪念朱迪•洛佩兹图书奖荣誉奖。她还获得过由《出版者周刊》颁发的“最佳新儿童系列图书奖”。她与丈夫共同创作的科幻小说《动物变种人》系列全球畅销，销量超过三千五百万本。 在美国图书馆协会颁布的2013年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖结果中，她于2012年出版的小说《独一无二的伊凡》获得了最高殊荣。

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But ...(展开全部)