Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as well as a poet poignantly tuning language to the right tones of private release...(展开全部)

In a wonderfully coherent set of sharp and witty essays, Krugman tackles pundits from across the political spectrum, in the process enlightening readers as to workings of our national economy.

在线阅读本书 Frustrated by the ivory tower of academic economics and convinced that economics is far too important to leave people in the dark, Paul Krugman started writing short articles aiming to make the issues accessible for non-specialists and to burst the nonsensical balloons being floated by the left and right alike. This collection brings together a range of articles written...(展开全部)

Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and "Life Studies and For the Union Dead "stand as among his most important volumes. In "Life Studies," which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The titl...(展开全部)

作者| 不情愿的照护者 2019年，一篇讲述中年男子回家照护父母的文章在英国《卫报》走红。故事从一个电话开始，没错，就是我们都害怕的那种电话。父亲因心脏病发作被送进医院，留下母亲独自在家。所以作者回到了童年时期的房子，开始了照护父母的生活。但是，他的生活就像父母的健康一 样迅速崩溃了。 为了保护父母的隐私，他以匿名方式写作，现实生活中他的职业是作家、记者、编剧。 译者| 万洁 自由译者。毕业于吉林外国语大学，曾任《科幻世界》杂志社外文编辑，代表译作《时间足够你爱》。三十岁前，天马行空，眼里只有书中的豪侠与巨龙；三十岁后，责任渐重，才看到生活的琐碎与无奈，遂发愿要译兔子洞和魔衣橱的异界奇景，也要译火车站和急诊室的人世悲欢。

Finally A book about economics that won't put you to sleep. In fact, you won't be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it's a necessary investment-with a blessedly sure rate of return. Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers, and ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·惠伦（Charles Wheelan） 《经济学人》杂志驻美国中西部地区的记者，西北大学的兼职讲师，芝加哥公共电台WBEZ节目财经记者。

Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings of the laid table are rich with products of the trade that made the country's fortunes during this period - yet they are traditionally interpreted as moralizing against excess. This is the first book to unpack the complex histories of these commodities in order to explore the contradictory implications in these extraordinary pictures. The vas...(展开全部)

Awards Award Winner Joint AFEE-EAEPE Veblen Prize 2007 It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are, how t...(展开全部)

Awards Award Winner Joint AFEE-EAEPE Veblen Prize 2007 It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are, how t...(展开全部)