THE LITTLE BOOK OF FRAUDS: FROM ENRON TO MADOFF, 50 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCANDALS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码: 04331211B44861
English Summary/英文概要: The Dreyfus Affair, Watergate, The Vatican Bank Fraud, The Original Ponzi Scheme, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Stanford’s Billions, Enron.
Clever deceptions have always captured our imagination. The mechanisms behind the frauds and scandals that pepper human history have intrigued people since time began, and the modern media are active in inviting or censoring public knowledge of otherwise private affairs. Now The Little Book of Fraudsexplores the stories behind and the fallout cause by 50 of the world’s most famous economic scandals and political cover-ups.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 德雷福斯事件、水门事件、梵蒂冈银行诈骗案、愿旁氏计划、大规模杀伤性武器、斯坦福大学的数十亿美元以及安然公司...
机关算尽的骗术总是不费吹灰之力就能捕获我们的想象力。自古以来,隐藏于诈骗和丑闻之后的机制牢牢得牵引着人们的注意,而现代媒体在保障公众知情权方面发挥着重要的作用,除非是私人事务。本书是是对世界历史上50个最不光彩的政治丑闻和经济诈骗的深度探索。(FSF)
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About the Author/作者介绍: 大卫.欧文为《观察员》(Observer), 《星期日泰晤士报》(Sunday Times)以及《每日电讯》(Daily Telegraph)贡献了很多很有价值的科学作品,而且还著有很多关于军事历史、法医科学与技术方面的书籍,其中包括最负盛名的《法医手册》(The Little Book of Forensics)和《战争手册》(The Little Book of Warfare). David Owen has worked as a contributing science writer for the Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph, and is the author of numerous books on the subjects of military history, and forensic science and technology. These include Criminal Minds, an exploration of the art of crime profiling, and Hidden Evidence: Forty true crimes and how forensic science helped solve them.
David researched, wrote and jointly produced Dirty Tricks, a four-part radio series on the techniques of military deception, which was chosen by the British Imperial War Museum for its media military history archive. He has just completed a long-term research and writing project for the United States Naval institute
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