This is an innovative approach for earning equity-style returns while offsetting portfolio risks. In today's bond market bond investing historically seen as safe, stodgy, and ultra-conservative can be every bit as exciting and profitable as the stock market. "The Strategic Bond Investor" outlines a dramatic new style of bond investing, aggressive yet risk-conscious, that is lon...(展开全部)

Discover Profit Opportunitiesin Today's Bond Market! "Tony Crescenzi knows bonds and his book proves it." Bill Gross, Managing Director, Pacific Investment Management Company In 2002, Anthony Crescenzi opened thedoor to an innovative new style of investingwith his publication of The Strategic BondInvestor. The book instantly became the go-toguide for investors seeking an aggr...(展开全部)

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman , is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the m...(展开全部)

A collection of stories which explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.

In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses , came under severe criticism for The Art of Love , which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic ele...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·米克(James Meek)，英国作家，记者。1962年生于伦敦，在苏格兰的邓迪长大。1985年起成为一名记者。1991年至l999年居住在俄罗斯。现定居伦敦，为《卫报》和《伦敦书评》撰稿。2004年，他对伊拉克和关塔那摩的报道赢得了多项英国和国际奖项。《蚀爱》是他的第三部小说，已被译成二十种文字。

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision ...(展开全部)

Review Perhaps no single work typifies the medieval character so completely as Juan Ruiz' Libro de Buen Amor, a product of the fourteenth century which, like medieval man, is a curious combination of the sublimely sacred and the unabashedly profane, of prayers and pornography. Mr. Kane's translation, running to six thousand lines of verse, is a minor masterpiece of scholarly fl...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·米克(James Meek)，英国作家，记者。1962年生于伦敦，在苏格兰的邓迪长大。1985年起成为一名记者。1991年至l999年居住在俄罗斯。现定居伦敦，为《卫报》和《伦敦书评》撰稿。2004年，他对伊拉克和关塔那摩的报道赢得了多项英国和国际奖项。《蚀爱》是他的第三部小说，已被译成二十种文字。

Love...What is it? Can we define it? What is its role in our lives? What causes love, and what dooms it? No single theory adequately answers all our questions about the nature of love, yet there are many theories that can contribute to our understanding of it. This fascinating book presents the full range of psychological theories on love - biological, taxonomical, implicit, cu...(展开全部)