[英]丹•科纳汉，金融专家，作家。在伦敦金融城工作十几年，是投资管理、公司融资、股票市场的专家。进入金融界之前，他曾在《每日邮报》做过五年的记者，并担任《经济学人》和《观察家》的撰稿人。 为写作本书，他历时三年研究英格兰银行，采访了众多英格兰银行过去和现任的高管，以及诸多英国财政部、美联储和伦敦金融城里的风云人物，写成了这本真实呈现央行运作的独特作品。 为了中文版的出版，作者在原版基础上修订了部分内文，并增补了约20%的内容。

1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropom...(展开全部)

1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropom...(展开全部)

A facsimile edition of one of the "classic" photography books. Elsken focuses on the Left Bank of Paris in the 1950s-a time when it was recognised as a centre of creative ferment which would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot-like technique the work has been acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography....(展开全部)

Despite the wall of evidence that bank mergers add little or no value, investors and management continue to fuel the consolidation wave. This book draws on the actual experience of senior executives in over 30 banks with extensive merger experience to demonstrate how most mergers do in fact fail to meet objectives. It explores in detail the issues of strategic positioning, cost...(展开全部)

Despite the wall of evidence that bank mergers add little or no value, investors and management continue to fuel the consolidation wave. This book draws on the actual experience of senior executives in over 30 banks with extensive merger experience to demonstrate how most mergers do in fact fail to meet objectives. It explores in detail the issues of strategic positioning, cost...(展开全部)

雷蒙·德鲁弗 Raymond de Roover 1904–1972 . . 中世纪经济史泰斗，第一个将商业技术分析引入商业史研究的经济史家。哈佛商学院教授，比利时皇家科学院外籍院士。 . 德鲁弗原籍比利时，曾在银行和航运公司任会计主管。后移民美国，1938年在哈佛大学获得MBA学 位，1943年在芝加哥大学获得博士学位，专攻经济史。五年后出版了第一本关于美第奇银行的专著，获美国历史学会奖。 . 1949年，美第奇银行的机密账簿重见天日。借助这些珍贵资料，德鲁弗倾十年之力写成了这部《美第奇银行的兴衰》，1963年由哈佛大学出版社出版。此书问世后获得学术界高度评价，被视为里程碑意义的学术经典、关于美第奇银行最权威的著作。德鲁弗借此确立学术地位，在哈佛商学院获得教职。 . 1972年逝世后，德鲁弗的这部名作多次重印，是今人了解中世纪和文艺复兴经济史的必读...(展开全部)

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand potential donors each year. Given the estimated one to two million azoospermic men-...(展开全部)