The authors use copious amounts of data ... to make the compelling case that any well-informed person should have seen the Great Recession coming. The essence of their book is that while financial crises come in different varieties, they are not mysteriously born of undersea earthquakes, but frequently occurring events that can be spotted and even controlled if politicians and ...(展开全部)

Time and Place -- Timeplace -- is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.Kevin Lynch's book deals with this human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. The center of his interest is on how this innate sense af...(展开全部)

This book provides a broad, mature, and systematic introduction to current financial econometric models and their applications to modeling and prediction of financial time series data. It utilizes real-world examples and real financial data throughout the book to apply the models and methods described. The author begins with basic characteristics of financial time series data b...(展开全部)

This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of physic...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses path...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses path...(展开全部)

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts a...(展开全部)

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts a...(展开全部)

贾森·帕金（1975— ），笔名王大卫，美国惊悚、科幻小说家，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。2001年，身为律师事务所员工的贾森·帕金在网络上连载处女作惊悚小说——《最后约翰死了》，获得大量读者喜爱，由此被出版社发掘，该书出版后不久便被改编成同名邪典电影。之后，贾森·帕金在幽默网站Cracked.com担任高级编辑。他的作品常带有诙谐、讽刺、想象力天马行空等特点，极具个人特色。代表作有《最后约翰死了》《本书充满蜘蛛》《未来城市与花哨西装》等，其中《未来城市与花哨西装》荣获美国图书馆协会颁发的亚历克斯奖。

贾森·帕金（1975— ），笔名王大卫，美国惊悚、科幻小说家，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。2001年，身为律师事务所员工的贾森·帕金在网络上连载处女作惊悚小说——《最后约翰死了》，获得大量读者喜爱，由此被出版社发掘，该书出版后不久便被改编成同名邪典电影。之后，贾森·帕金在幽默网站Cracked.com担任高级编辑。他的作品常带有诙谐、讽刺、想象力天马行空等特点，极具个人特色。代表作有《最后约翰死了》《本书充满蜘蛛》《未来城市与花哨西装》等，其中《未来城市与花哨西装》荣获美国图书馆协会颁发的亚历克斯奖。