页数： 344 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2025-6-24

中文概要: 麻省理工學院經濟學家查爾斯‧金德爾伯格(Charles P. Kindleberger)在這部關於大蕭條的權威著作中，強調了持續影響全球金融市場的三個因素：恐慌、傳染力、霸權的重要性。這部經濟史巨著在出版四十週年之際再版，並由巴里·J·艾肯格林(Barry Eichengreen)和J·布拉德福德·德隆(J. Bradford DeLong)撰寫了新的序言。本書揭示了為何美國財政部長勞倫斯‧薩默斯在2008年全球金融危機最黑暗的時刻向金德爾伯格及其同僚尋求指導。

英文简介: In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that continue to shape global financial markets: panic, the power of contagion, and importance of hegemony. Reissued on its fortieth anniversary with a new foreword by Barry J. Eichengreen and J. Bradford DeLong, this masterpiece of economic history shows why U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, during the darkest hours of the 2008 global financial crisis, turned to Kindleberger and his peers for guidance.

页数： 304 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2025-6-9

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英文简介: The Mamluks were, at one distinct point in history, the greatest body of fighting men in the world and the quintessence of the mounted warrior. They were slave soldiers, imported as boys into the Islamic Empire from the pagan Steppes, but they became its savior, bringing defeat to the Mongols and forming the machine of jihad that ultimately destroyed the Crusader Kingdoms of Palestine and Syria. They entered the Islamic world as unlettered automatons and through a total application to the craft of the warrior they became more than soldiers. After a bloody seizure of power from their masters, the descendants of Saladin, they developed a martial code and an honor system based on barracks brotherhood, a sophisticated military society that harnessed the state’s energies for total war and produced a series of treatises on warfare that more than compare to SunZi’s Art of War in their complexity, beauty of language and comprehensive coverage of the bloody business of war. Their story embraces many of the great themes of medieval military endeavor. The Crusaders and the deadly contest between Islam and Christendom, the Mongols and their vision of World Dominion, Tamerlane the Scourge of God and the rise of the Ottoman Empire whose new slave soldiers, the Janissaries, would be the Mamluks’ final nemesis.

页数： 0 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2025-5-16

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英文简介: 28-year-old Mana Suzukura works a demanding fashion job in central Tokyo. For some time, she has been navigating the unwelcome advances of one of their clients, Hodaka. Despite her discomfort, the company can’t afford to cause trouble. However, one night, on her way home from work, she finds that Hodaka has been lurking in the shadows, ready to force his way into her apartment. Mana is scared and threatens to scream – that is until her husband Kazuki appears on the doorstep and scares Hodaka away. But Mana is not relieved. She is terrified.

Kazuki was an abusive husband that she thought she had pushed off a cliff five years ago. Until now, she believed he was dead.

Now he is back in her life, claiming he can’t remember the past. Stranger still, this new Kazuki is kind and calm, and slowly Mana manages to settle back into life with him. She’s finally living the stable married life she always wished for when she receives an anonymous letter that says: I know about Mana Suzukura’s past.

Soon a detective gets in touch to report that Kazuki’s remains have been found in the mountains of Miyagi Prefecture. If Kazuki is in fact dead, who is the man in Mana’s house claiming to be her husband? And what kind of secrets has Mana been keeping from herself?

This complex yet riveting narrative provides a convincing glimpse into the lives of those on the fringes of Japanese society. While also exploring the injustices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendship that bolster them in times of need.

页数： 216 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2025-5-7

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英文简介: Beating Bipolar explains how to emotionally overcome bipolar disorder, sharing insider lessons from a leading expert who also lives with the illness. It will help families, teachers, mental-health professionals, those with bipolar disorder, and anyone looking to learn about it. The book is filled with uplifting stories and techniques to help manage this debilitating illness. With bipolar disorder affecting millions, this book will be the guide to allow us to create more healing in our lives.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: War, unfortunately, is one of the oldest human activities and over time, it has become a dramatic reflection of the society, culture, and technology of its time. This volume traces 3,000 years of military history, from ancient battles to more recent conflicts, narrated and illustrated through photographs, maps, and digital reconstructions based on the most up-to-date historical documentation, in order to immerse readers in the staggering reality of military action. The work is divided into five sections. Each section opens with an introductory page, illustrating the technological innovations and the war strategies of the historical period. The battles are presented in chronological order, from the battle of Qadesh in 1286 B.C. to the terrible ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: The last classic of 20th century Italian literature.

A cult writer in the 1990s, Tondelli produced a small but very influential body of work.

This novel tells us about three moments in the life of a 30-year-old writer, Leo, who is mourning the loss of his boyfriend, Thomas, a young German music player.

Their affair is told through long reflections and flashbacks. Leo is a successful writer, who lives in Milan, Paris, London and Florence; Thomas is in West Berlin. The two lovers often meet elsewhere in Europe, they take their holidays together but live in two separate rooms, 2000 kilometres one from another.

They meet whenever they wish but can also seclude themselves in their own loneliness. Then Thomas starts an affair with a girl. The triangle makes Leo deeply jealous, until Thomas is diagnosed with the illness that will lead to his death in Munich.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: A semi-unknown father and his past, both to be discovered. Terrorism set in 1970s Turin.

A young woman, lonely and in love with literature, writes the chronicle of her fight with her father’s death: the two had shared a happy relationship during her childhood, a hard one during her teenage years. But now that the man is dead too many questions are unanswered: who was the young doctor-worker who always sided with the poor, who always had someone to save, who was sentenced to jail for taking part in an armed band? And why did he never tell his daughter about those years? Lawyers, old far-leftwinged militants, archives and trial accounts are voices that make up the portrait of a complex and contradictory man, a witness and protagonist of a complex and contradictory time. In the background, Turin, city of rage, pain, and hope, a backdrop of violence that generated deception and ruins.

The novel of a man, his families and his choices, retold with love and rage.

页数： 528 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: Professor Vecce has brought sensitivity and respect to Caterina’s life in a story that gallops across the page on the energy of his immense historical research and results in a compelling novel that reads like a story from the Arabian Nights or the Travels of Marco Polo, all the while granting us detailed insight into the mother of one of the greatest minds of all time, Leonardo da Vinci.

Professor Vecce is a historian who has been researching Leonardo da Vinci for many years. When he recently found evidence in the archives that suggested Caterina to be Leonardo’s mother, Professor Vecce felt compelled to tell her story first in a novel because the findings are immense: Caterina was from Circassia, and was brought to Italy by way of the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, and Constantinople, to Venice, where women from Circassia were brought work on the production of brocade. She was a slave, a woman whose life, possessions, voice, and liberty were taken from her. The author saw so many parallels to our modern-day plight of slaves and international refugees that his desire to allow this woman to be known and to become immediately human in our eyes overcame even his instincts as a historian (nb, his scientific article was published on 30/10/23; his non-fiction title, The Life of Leonardo will be published by Giunti in April 2024.)

页数： 372 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: A fascinating, evil woman capable of devouring both darkness and light, and a young woman who has only on the power of love, engaged in a battle that lasts a lifetime.

A deep affection between a young man capable of flight and a young woman with the light of purity in her eyes.

An extraordinary, original novel, filled with thrilling adventures and magical events.

Certain encounters have the power to change the course of our lives forever. For Rechella, a child in Nuoro in the early 1960s, the encounter is with Martino and the grandmother who takes him in after he has been abandoned by his parents. Martino is a boy with a fervent imagination, filled with visions so powerful that they allow him to take flight: he is able to see beyond, where the clouds become stormy seas navigated by pirate ships. But even more particular is his grandmother, Jaja, a woman both respected and feared: she is capable of opening passages in time and space, of telling stories that come alive, of knowing the life secrets of others and molding them as she does the herbs in her kitchen. Rechella is both in love with Martino and fascinated by Jaja, until a terrible tragedy forces her to see: Jaja is a sùrbile, a woman who absorbs the energy of those she loves most to increase her own immense vitality.

Rechella has only one choice for survival: she must leave, she must go out into the world. Her journey will introduce her to other extraordinary characters who will accompany her on the long search for the indelible light that not even the power of the sùrbile can destroy.

页数： 176 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: How to live Felix and Feline.

Cats, as we know, have many lives. We are fortunate in that they give us companionship, and, in this book, their precious suggestions on how to live a happy and cat-like life.

The eyes of a cat are portals to an enchanted world, hidden behind their velvety eyelashes. Cats have been watching us for centuries, and while we humans struggle to understand the meaning of life, cats seem to have all the answers. Here, finally, our wise and furry companions are ready to share their secrets on how to live an enjoyable and fulfilling life. Vita Felix is a distillation of their instinctual wisdom, rich with advice culled from their many lives in which we see how they are resilient and capable of adapting. As hunters who also happen to be very introspective, as well as great observers, they have a lot to teach us.

They do so beginning with their basic but very important credo: that life is something that happens between naps. A must-read for all cat lovers,