Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at work.

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。

A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both bro...(展开全部)

What if being lucky was a skill that you could master and share with other people? Modern life is full of chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys, human errors and other mishaps. So, what if we use such unpredictability to our advantage? Dr Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how, if acted upon, unexpected encounters can enhance our worldview, expand our so...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free wil...(展开全部)

Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, ...(展开全部)

In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi , Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled , the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on ...(展开全部)

辛西娅·角畑，日裔美国人，美国著名儿童文学作家。生于芝加哥，在南加州大学获得新闻学学士学位。1986年开始在《纽约客》发表文章，擅长写日裔移民题材，作品曾获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖、美国国家图书奖金奖、美国笔会儿童文学奖和简·亚当斯儿童图书奖等权威大奖。为了撰写《明天会有好运气》，辛西娅拜访了代收公司、儿童心理学家、研究蚊子的昆虫学博士、联合收割机驾驶员，还真的驾驶了一辆三万磅重的联合收割机！