Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a huge b in an electric sign high up on a skyscraper. sidas view of san Francisco is without equal. so sid asks the lovely dove Midge to share his home. but one morning, while Midge is taking her turn sitting on two eggs, disaster strikes...(展开全部)

"Fly High, Fly Low," a Caldecott Honor book, tells the story of two San Francisco birds who hatch some eggs in a very unconventional place-the letter "B" in the sign on top of the Bay Hotel. But what happens when the sign is taken down? Told with Freeman's typical humor and simplicity, the book features breathtaking vistas of San Francisco.

Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a huge b in an electric sign high up on a skyscraper. sidas view of san Francisco is without equal. so sid asks the lovely dove Midge to share his home. but one morning, while Midge is taking her turn sitting on two eggs, disaster strikes...(展开全部)

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that ahe has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction.a In Forty Stories, the companion volume to "Sixty Stories," we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, "Captain Blood," modern courtship, marriage and divorce, armadillos, and other unique Barthelmean flights of fancy. T...(展开全部)

“Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family’s Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, le...(展开全部)

“Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family’s Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, le...(展开全部)

平·范·弗利特（Pim van Vliet） 博士，执行董事，投资组合经理。研究型投资组合经理，拥有量化金融和历史专业背景。2004年，完成了关于下行风险和资产价格实证的博士论文。自2005年起，在荷宝负责资产配置研究工作。他也是荷宝低波动股票和全球战术资产配置策略的创始研究员。 杨·德·科宁（Jan de Koning） 特许金融分析师，特许另类投资分析师，特许市场技术分析师，客户投资组合经理。贾恩是荷宝的量化股票客户投资组合经理，负责支援荷宝在欧洲、美洲和中东地区的机构销售队伍，并负责向投资客户解说荷宝的因子投资和量化股票策略。

In a straightforward and accessible manner, The Dhandho Investor lays out the powerful framework of value investing. Written with the intelligent individual investor in mind, this comprehensive guide distills the Dhandho capital allocation framework of the business savvy Patels from India and presents how they can be applied successfully to the stock market. The Dhandho method ...(展开全部)

莫尼什·帕伯莱（Mohnish Pabrai） 巴菲特的门徒，曾经是一位成功的创业者、IT 咨询公司CEO以及慈善家，1999年创办对冲基金，担任帕伯莱基金管理合伙人，该基金仿效20世纪50年代巴菲特合伙基金的模式创办。自1999年基金成立以来，取得高达28%的净年化投资收益。帕伯莱也跻身全美基金经理排行的前列。2007年7月，帕伯莱以650100美元的竞价在 eBay 上成功拿到了下个年度与巴菲特一起共进午餐的机会。《福布斯》和《巴伦周刊》都曾刊载有关帕伯莱的报道，他还曾经做客 CNBC 和 Bloomberg 电视及电台分享投资经验。 帕伯莱倡导“从容投资”。在他看来，成功的投资者应该是个“投资绅士”，在市场陷入严重恐慌时从容介入，而在完成投资工作后，可以“转身享受生活”。 帕伯莱认为，成功的投资者应该拥有的最大优点不是智商，而是耐心。帕伯莱是I...(展开全部)