New York Times Bestseller Edward O. Thorp is the father of card counting, and in Beat the Dealer he reveals the revolutionary point system that has been successfully used by professional and amateur card players for two generations. From Las Vegas to Monte Carlo, the tables have been turned and the house no longer has the advantage at blackjack. Containing the basic r...(展开全部)

爱德华·O.索普（Edward O. Thorp） 加州大学尔湾分校数学系教授。之前，他是新墨西哥州立大学的数学系副教授；1959~1961年，他是麻省理工学院的C.L.E摩尔教师。1958年索普在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得数学博士学位，他的一个主要研究领域是概率－博弈理论。他是美国数学协会和爱丁堡数学协会会员。 除了数学教授的身份以外，1969年，索普与合伙人成立了可转换对冲基金，这是史上第一家量化对冲基金。应用可转债套利策略，索普在股票市场所向披靡。从1970年开始，基金连续十几年获得两位数的回报。20世纪80年代，索普又成立了专门采用统计套利策略的基金，也大获成功。1985年11月，标准普尔指数下跌20%，索普的基金增长为12%。1987年10月华尔街崩盘，而索普基金1987年总盈利高达27%。 1992年爱德华·索普开始淡出市场，但他开创了一个时...(展开全部)

If your website content is out of date, off-brand, and out of control, you're missing a huge opportunity to engage, convert, and retain customers online. Redesigning your home page won't help. Investing in a new content management system won't fix it, either. So, where do you start? Without meaningful content, your website isn't worth much to your key audiences. But creating (a...(展开全部)

If your website content is out of date, off-brand, and out of control, you're missing a huge opportunity to engage, convert, and retain customers online. Redesigning your home page won't help. Investing in a new content management system won't fix it, either. So, where do you start? Without meaningful content, your website isn't worth much to your key audiences. But creating (a...(展开全部)

A guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times. Covering topi...(展开全部)

This book offers strategies for seizing control of your investment future - by working with the markets instead of against them. 'This remarkably insightful and lucidly written investment classic should be required reading for every serious investor' - Burton G. Malkiel, Author, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street". 'This is by far the best book on investment policy and management'...(展开全部)

This is The New York Times best-selling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opening this autumn, Moneyball is the story of the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt). He has an epiphany: all conventional baseball wisdom is wrong. Reinventing his team on a budget, he needs to outsmart the richer teams. Joi...(展开全部)

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by ma...(展开全部)

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by ma...(展开全部)

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)