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)

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)

Groundbreaking research has been done teaching animals human language, but what about the other way around? Studies have shown that lizards, squid, monkeys, and birds are talking to each other, communicating information about food, predators, squabbles, and petty jealousies. These animal languages are unique and highly adaptive. By exploring them, we come to appreciate the basi...(展开全部)

Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of “entrepreneurial citizenship” in India over the past sev...(展开全部)

尤金·奥凯利，在纽约市出生和长大。1972年进入毕马威，担任助理会计师，经过30多年的努力，于2002年4月成为毕马威公司的首席执行官，并一直担任该职到2005年6月确诊前，后来保留了公司的资深合伙人一职。他于2005年9月10日辞世。

当 时，尤金•奥凯利(Eugene O’Kelly)正处在巅峰时期。他时年53岁，担任着美国毕马威会计师事务所(KPMG)的董事长兼首席执行官，工作勤恳，家庭幸福，社交繁忙，并为今后惬意的退休生活拟定了计划。 去年5月，他到神经科医师那里进行了一次体检，检查轻微面瘫的病因。他猜想，病因可能是贝尔氏麻痹(Bell's palsy)，或者是与压力有关的其它疾病所致。但脑部扫描结果表明，他患有晚期脑癌，仅余下3个月生命。 正如奥凯利在讲述自己生命最后时光的自传《追逐日光》* (Chasing Daylight)中所描写的那样，他将这条消息视为一件幸事。他要利用这100天的日子，为生命划下完美的句号：向同事、朋友和家人道别；为妻儿计划将来。奥凯利是一位不折不扣的会计师，他希望在掩上生命的书卷之后，所有事情都井井有条。

DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO BE PERFECT? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. OR DO YOU WANT ...(展开全部)

"A splendidly instructive and entertaining contribution to film history and a quick lesson on the efficient showstring style of filmmaking by a maverick genius of innovation and exploitation. . . . Corman teaches, as well as delights".--"Choice". 39 photos.

What do Martin Scorsese, Peter Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Jack Nicholson have in common? They, along with so many other Hollywood stars, had their starts with Roger Corman, one of the film world's most successful directors and entrepreneurs. Though he graduated from Stanford with a degree in engineering, Roger Corman long knew he wanted to be in pictures A...(展开全部)