当代法国侦探小说作家，硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家，被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品，代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作，以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点，凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者，成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位，是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

In this new brief introduction to the rich and complex discipline of sociology, Jon Witt cuts to the core of the sociological perspective, supplying answers to two main questions: "Why do we think the way we think?" and "Why do we act the way we act?" Providing students with a glimpse of the "Big Picture," the author offers a top-down look at the structure of society, which all...(展开全部)

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

加里·B. 戈顿 耶鲁大学管理学院教授，曾任宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院的罗伯特•莫里斯银行和金融教授。戈登博士曾为美国联邦储备系统理事会、美国联邦储备银行、英格兰银行、日本银行和土耳其中央银行提供咨询。他在金融和经济学的许多领域都做过研究，包括理论和实证工作。他是《被看不见的手扇耳光》和《误解金融危机》的作者。 埃利斯·塔尔曼 克利夫兰联邦储备银行高级副总裁兼研究部主任，主要进行经济研究和政策分析。曾在多本顶级期刊上发表过很多篇关于宏观经济学、经济预测以及经济危机史的论文。

If you’ve got some money in the bank, chances are you’ve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close attention to whether the banking system would remain solvent, knowing they might have to rush to retrieve their savings before th...(展开全部)

Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic tradition...(展开全部)

Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic tradition...(展开全部)

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigoro...(展开全部)

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigoro...(展开全部)