Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the...(展开全部)

Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the...(展开全部)

A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.

A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Globalization and Its Discontents challenges perceptions about financial theories stemming from the apparent prosperity of the 1990s, noting such factors as reduced accounting standards and deregulation that caused the economic problems of today. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Publisher Comments: "The Roaring Nineties offers not o...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Globalization and Its Discontents challenges perceptions about financial theories stemming from the apparent prosperity of the 1990s, noting such factors as reduced accounting standards and deregulation that caused the economic problems of today. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Publisher Comments: "The Roaring Nineties offers not o...(展开全部)

特里·布劳斯（Terry Burrows）身兼撰稿人、音乐人、大学讲师多重身份，是全世界吉他与音乐教育领域的畅销书作家之一。他的著作销量已超过四百万册，其中至少包含十二种语言版本——题材方面也十分广泛，除了音乐外，还涉及历史、科技和大众心理学。他曾以音乐人的身份，先后使用多个化名，录制多种类型的音乐专辑达四十余张。世界各地的听众均可在多部电影或BBC出品的纪录片中听到他的音乐。他近期的演出活动包括赫赫有名的奥尔德堡古典音乐节等。他目前居于伦敦。

First time in paperback: The definitive history of one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions For more than seven decades, The New Yorker has been the embodiment of urban sophistication and literary accomplishment, the magazine where the best work of virtually every prose giant of the century first appeared. With all the authority and elegance such a...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would...(展开全部)

This is the entwined tale of two exceptional women. One was a voluptuous eleven-inch-tall beauty who debuted at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City and quickly became the treasure of 9 out of 10 American girls and their counterparts in 150 countries. She went on to compete as an Olympic athlete, serve as an air force pilot, work as a boutique owner, run as a presidential candida...(展开全部)