In the third edition of this international best seller， Lawrence Cunningham brings you the latest wisdom from Warren Buffett's annual l etters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. New material addresses： ?the financial crisis and its continuing implications for investors， managers and society; ?the housing bubble at the bottom of that crisis; ?the debt and derivatives excesses t...(展开全部)

This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new translation that offers definite advantages over even the best of its predecessors," and The New Republic stated that this edition gi...(展开全部)

加里·斯奈德 Gary Snyder，20世纪美国著名诗人、散文家、翻译家、禅宗信徒、环保主义者。他是“垮掉派”诗人中至今创作成就最大的一位，曾出版诗集、散文集和访谈录等二十多本著作，多次获得重要奖项，包括美国国家图书奖、博林根诗歌奖、莱文森奖、古根海 姆基金奖及普利策诗歌奖等。他深受中国古代文化的影响，喜欢沉浸于自然，将历史与荒野纳于心中。在大自然中的生活和思考使他的作品更接近事物的本色以对抗我们时代的失衡与无知。 译者 陈登，哲学博士。出版英语方面的著作多种。谭琼琳，教授，博士生导师，英国威尔士大学英语语言文学博士，英国皇家亚洲研究会会员，英国威尔士大学荣誉研究员。斯奈德研究专家，出版研究斯奈德的英语专著一部，并发表相关论文十余篇。

In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience...(展开全部)

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(展开全部)

Two most important essays by the famous German mathematician: one provides an arithmetic, rigorous foundation for the irrational numbers, thereby a rigorous meaning of continuity in analysis. The other is an attempt to give logical basis for transfinite numbers and properties of the natural numbers.

The unifying theme of these essays is Lord Acton's concept of liberty. Included are his two famous essays on the history of freedom (The History of Freedom in Antiquity; and The History of Freedom in Christianity) as are writings on the tradition of liberty in England, America, and Europe.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an influential American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the field known as the history of ideas. Lovejoy was born in Berlin, Germany while his father was doing medical research there. Eighteen months later, his mother committed suicide, whereupon his father gave up medicine and became a clergym...(展开全部)