If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? In 2006, legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son Howard G. Buffett. Howard set out to help the most vulnerable people on earth—nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security. And Howard gave himself a deadline: 40 years to put the resources to wo...(展开全部)

Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also ...(展开全部)

Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also ...(展开全部)

An analysis of the author's philosophy of organizations and the individual in a dramatically changing social, business and political environment. It shows how materialist capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. The book also builds a different theory of meaning, based on the ...(展开全部)

An analysis of the author's philosophy of organizations and the individual in a dramatically changing social, business and political environment. It shows how materialist capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. The book also builds a different theory of meaning, based on the ...(展开全部)

How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other “attention architects” try hard to get our attention, promoting products with v...(展开全部)

How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other “attention architects” try hard to get our attention, promoting products with v...(展开全部)

The humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. At the forefront a...(展开全部)

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected humanitarian organization in the world, delivering emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics and natural disasters as well as to many others who lack reliable health care. Dan Bortolotti follows the volunteers at the for...(展开全部)

李翔 文 一 危险的中国叙述 每次金奇（James Kynge）坐上北京的出租车，如果司机是一位老北京，他总会感到一阵愉悦。他喜欢他们说话的腔调和他们恣意的议论。这些老北京人喜欢在词语的后面加上“儿”。他跟他们学会了不少中国的谚语，比如“肉包子打狗”，司机用这个词语来比喻对政府的徒劳的抗议；再比如，藕断丝连。金奇会很认真地将这些词语写下来。 他1982年时就已经作为一名学生到中国来了，不过那时候他不在北京，他去的是山东大学，对于这位英国人来说，这也未尝不好，中国最伟大的哲学家孔子出生在山东，那条伟大的河流黄河流经山东。 再次来到中国时，他已经是英国《金融时报》的驻华记者了，他以这个身份在中国渡过了将近十年，目睹了他所说的“饥饿之国的崛起”。 写一本关于中国的书颇具危险性。存在着关于写一本讲中国的书的大量笑谈。一个著名的说法是，当你在中国呆上一周，你会...(展开全部)