Moments of humour, surreal fantasy, and the sometimes devastating ways we interact with the people we love the most, are presented in Shaun Tan’s typical thought-provoking style. RULES OF SUMMER, is a deceptively simple story about two boys, one older and one younger, and the kind of ‘rules’ that might govern any relationship between close friends or siblings. Rules that are of...(展开全部)

Moments of humour, surreal fantasy, and the sometimes devastating ways we interact with the people we love the most, are presented in Shaun Tan’s typical thought-provoking style. RULES OF SUMMER, is a deceptively simple story about two boys, one older and one younger, and the kind of ‘rules’ that might govern any relationship between close friends or siblings. Rules that are of...(展开全部)

陈志勇（Shaun Tan）,1974年生于西澳大利亚的首府珀斯，在郊区长大。父亲是马来西亚华侨，母亲是澳大利亚人。从小，班里个子最小的他就是全校知名的画画高手，十几岁时即开始为科幻小说和恐怖故事绘制插图。1995年从西澳大利亚大学毕业，获得美术与英语语言文学双学位。后成为自由插画师，并在电影《霍顿与无名氏》和《机器人瓦力》中出任过造型设计。曾两次获得世界科幻协会颁发的“雨果奖最佳美术奖”，四度获得“世界奇幻奖最佳艺术家”称号。2011年，荣获由瑞典政府颁发的林格伦儿童文学奖。同年3月，改编自他的同名绘本并由他导演的动画《失物招领》也获得第83届奥斯卡最佳动画短片奖。绘本作品有《抵岸》（获2007年博洛尼亚书展特别评审奖）《绯红树》《别的国家都没有》《夏天守则》《蝉》等十几部。现居墨尔本。

The only authorized parliamentary procedure guide, completely revised and updated by the authorized Robert's Rules Authorship Committee. Originally published as a slim document in 1896, General Henry M. Robert's classic guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold close to five million copies in nine editions. The only book containing the completely develop...(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)

【英】理查德·泰普勒（Richard Templar） 欧美畅销书“泰普勒人生法则系列（Rules）”图书的作者，其人生轨迹丰富多彩，在其30年的工作生涯中，涉猎了诸多领域，在不同企业内负责过不同的工作，现在他自己创业，同时经营几家公司。他的个人成功促使其开启了传道授业解惑的旅程，与大众分享他的成功法则。 据不完全统计，全球有超过240万人在按照他所建议的法则行事。有评论家认为，理查德的文字风格，既不是那种冷硬命令式、听多了让人觉得苛刻的“教科书风格”，也不是温柔多情式、听久了让人觉得黏糊糊的“中央空调风格”，而是一种介于两者之间温暖又不失客观的风格。

在线阅读本书 Some parents make it look so easy. They are eternally calm, have great relationships with their kids, and seem to have parenting down to a fine art. But is this really possible? How do they do it? Have you ever wondered what makes them so good? These parents do many things right but have one thing in common. They know The Rules of Parenting. The set of golden behav...(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)

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ough...(展开全部)

A tale of counterterrorism from an author who "ranks with Graham Greene in his knowledge of espionage and the human heart" (Publishers Weekly). Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission—to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's plan for gett...(展开全部)