Kristen Petersen doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen -- especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copela...(展开全部)

You want people to stretch their limits, but your conversations meant to help them often fall flat or backfire, creating more resistance than growth.

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. "The Hot Zone" tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account ...(展开全部)

An innovative framework to understanding risk management The Rules of Risk takes the reader from the present to the future of risk management. Combining a novel approach to risk management with the tools of mathematics, finance, computer science, and an understanding of capital markets, authors Dembo and Freeman present their framework of a new risk paradigm that peers into the...(展开全部)

An innovative framework to understanding risk management The Rules of Risk takes the reader from the present to the future of risk management. Combining a novel approach to risk management with the tools of mathematics, finance, computer science, and an understanding of capital markets, authors Dembo and Freeman present their framework of a new risk paradigm that peers into the...(展开全部)

罗伯特席勒 2013年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，耶鲁大学金融学教授，标普/凯斯-席勒住房价格指数的联合创始人之一。诺奖委员会经济学奖颁奖词中提到，“如果价格未来数日或数周的走向几乎不可能进行预测，那么未来数年的走势不是更难于预测吗？回答是否定的，这是罗伯特J席勒的发现”。他经常为联合报业集团下属的报刊和《纽约时报》撰写专栏。同时，他还是一位畅销书作者，著述颇丰，《非理性繁荣》、《金融与好的社会》、《动物精神》等成为超级畅销书。

In his best-selling "Irrational Exuberance", Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real as...(展开全部)

In his best-selling "Irrational Exuberance", Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real as...(展开全部)

罗伯特席勒 2013年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，耶鲁大学金融学教授，标普/凯斯-席勒住房价格指数的联合创始人之一。诺奖委员会经济学奖颁奖词中提到，“如果价格未来数日或数周的走向几乎不可能进行预测，那么未来数年的走势不是更难于预测吗？回答是否定的，这是罗伯特J席勒的发现”。他经常为联合报业集团下属的报刊和《纽约时报》撰写专栏。同时，他还是一位畅销书作者，著述颇丰，《非理性繁荣》、《金融与好的社会》、《动物精神》等成为超级畅销书。

We are the safest humans who ever lived - the statistics prove it. And yet the media tells a different story with its warnings and scare stories. How is it possible that anxiety has become the stuff of daily life? In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our lives, often with unforeseen and so...(展开全部)