When they have to promote themselves. When an acquaintance says hello by kissing them on a cheek. When they owe a favour. When they wait for a bus in pouring rain, but there´s already someone under the pentice. When they run out of coffee. That´s when it happens. A finnish awkward moment. The character of Karoliina Korhonen´s comic strips is finnish Matti, who loves silence and...(展开全部)

Elite Guardians bodyguard Haley Callaghan may be in South Carolina, but when a photo leads investigators in West Ireland to open a twenty-five-year-old cold case, her life is suddenly in danger. Haley

Best friends since college Leigh, Adriana, and Emmy are all immersed in busy, fabulous New York City lives that nonetheless afford them plenty of time to sit around watching Grey's Anatomy and moan to each other about their problems, chief among them the horrifying fact that they are all on the cusp of 30. Leigh, a hard-driving editor at a publishing house, fears she doesn't ac...(展开全部)

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help ...(展开全部)

Best friends since college Leigh, Adriana, and Emmy are all immersed in busy, fabulous New York City lives that nonetheless afford them plenty of time to sit around watching Grey's Anatomy and moan to each other about their problems, chief among them the horrifying fact that they are all on the cusp of 30. Leigh, a hard-driving editor at a publishing house, fears she doesn't ac...(展开全部)

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help ...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom suggests that markets are efficient, random walks and that stock prices rise and fall with the fundamentals of the company. How then have black-box traders prospered and how do they exploit market inefficiencies? Are their strategies on their last legs or will they adapt to the new landscape amidst the global financial crisis? Chasing the Same Signals is a u...(展开全部)

The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents' dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and low-income groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that...(展开全部)

罗伯特·M·福格尔森（Robert M. Fogelson），美国麻省理工学院历史学与城市研究教授。他撰有多部城市史和城市事务的著作，其中《下城》（Downtown）一书荣获2001年刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford）奖（美国城市和区域规划史最佳图书）与2002年城市史协会奖（北美城市史最佳图书）。

乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。