A chronicle of events that shook the world from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century Over the past four years, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty documented his close observations on current events through a regular column in the French newspaper Le Monde. His pen captured the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Macron’s ascendance to the French presi...(展开全部)

约翰·罗默，1945年生，美国著名经济学家，曾任加州大学戴维斯学院经济学教授，“经济、正义与社会”研究中心负责人，现为耶鲁大学经济学与政治学教授，是“分析的马克思主义经济学”流派的主要代表人物。其教学与研究领域主要是：分配公正的经济学、马克思经济理论、最优化经济学和微观经济学。主要著作有：《马克思经济理论的分析基础》、《剥削与阶级的一般理论》、《在自由中丧失——马克思主义经济哲学导论》。苏联、东欧剧变后，他坚持为社会主义辩护，并运用经济模式构造未来社会主义的蓝图，写下了这部《社会主义的未来》。 余文烈，经济学教授、哲学研究员，曾任中国社会科学院研究室主任，研究员、博士生导师，现为深圳市委党校教授，中华外国经济学说研究会副会长。曾受聘比利时鲁汶大学、瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学等院校客座教授或访问教授。主持完成国家社科基金项目3项，出版专著和译著《市场社会主义：...(展开全部)

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to ...(展开全部)

尼尔·欧文  《纽约时报》高级经济通讯记者。  曾任《华盛顿邮报》专栏作家，同时是该报Wonkblog网站的财经编辑。2007—2012年，作为该报的跟队记者，他采访了美联储和各国央行，文章涉及金融危机、经济萧条以及之后的连锁困境，产生了极大的反响。  拥有哥伦比亚大学MBA学位，是经济和财经新闻专业奈特-白芝浩奖学金项目（Knight-Bagehot Fellow）获得者。

The inside story of the work of the world’s most powerful central bankers, offering an unparalleled view from the cockpit of the global economy, as three men struggle to keep it from going down Six times a year, Basel, Switzerland, hosts what is arguably the planet’s most exclusive dinner party, an intimate weekend gathering of the world’s most powerful central bankers to ex...(展开全部)

In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai'i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone. Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and ...(展开全部)

Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through ...(展开全部)

The opening volume in the Alexander the Great trilogy -- now back in print! Telling the story of the how the boy Alexander grows to become the man all would call Alexander the Great.

The story of young Alexander the Great.

“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”– The New York Times Book Review Alexander’s beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son’s loyalty, teaching Alexander politics ...(展开全部)