Wonderfully readable, this books clear, direct logic borrows on Jim Tobins concept of q to explain why the marvelous past is not only not prologue to perpetually higher and higher market valuations, b

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

简介：前生-我为兵王                 今生-我为万神之主

简介：前生-我为兵王                 今生-我为万神之主

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

本书收录了俄国作家科尔扎诺夫斯基写于1920年至1940年间的18篇哲学和幻想故事，他以极其讽刺的目光审视了历史、上帝、哲学、苏联的体制以及作家的命运，与他的《未来的回忆》(Memories of the Future)和《尸体的自传》(Autobiography of a Corpse)中的硬密黑暗的故事相比，《不知情的大街》无疑轻松了许多：一条主人已死的裤子飞奔去工作，很快就有了自己的办公室和秘书；一只装满自动补充葡萄酒的古老高脚杯驱动着它的主人进入酒杯；一位催眠师试图把一只苍蝇变成一头大象，结果适得其反；一位哲学家自由漂浮的思想与被印在书上和被埋在书里进行斗争；一个政治家变成了象棋大师，他的灵魂最终被囚禁在棋子里；一只鹦鹉从一战前的奥地利旅行到了苏联，冷眼旁观世间冷暖……

梅芙·宾奇（Maeve Binchy，1940—2012）是出生于爱尔兰都柏林市的知名小说家、剧作家和专刊作者。她年轻时曾短暂从事教学事业，后以记者的身份转战《爱尔兰时报》（TheIrish Time），同时也在小说创作方面取得了巨大成功。她的作品曾跻身纽约时报的“最佳畅销榜”，而她本人也曾受邀参加美国知名电视节目《奥普拉读书俱乐部》（Oprah's Book Club），并在1999 年荣获英国图书奖（British Book Awards）终身成就奖。她的作品被翻译成37 种语言，全球销量累计超过40 万册。