“I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I can’t shake it off. I will commit the worst thing you can ever do to someone who loves you: killing yourself. The scary thing is, I’m okay with that.” —Victoria McLeod, Singapore, March 30, 2014 Loss Adjustment is a mother’s recount of her 17-year-old daughter’s suicide. In the...(展开全部)

Friedman argued that the best way to make sense of saving and spending was not, as Keynes had done, to resort to loose psychological theorizing, but rather to think of individuals as making rational plans about how to spend their wealth over their lifetimes. This wasn't necessarily an anti-Keynesian idea--in fact, the great Keynesian economist Franco Modi-gliani simultaneously ...(展开全部)

本書對科學史史家所知最引人入勝且歷史最悠久的機構之一：中國皇家天文機構（欽天監 ）提出新的見解，2,000年來此機構觀察、記錄、解釋並預測了天體的運行。利用檔案資料如呈給皇室閱覽的履歷、人事管理的記錄等，本書追索晚明至清末超過30個世代奉公於欽天監的家族的盛衰。亦深入介紹欽天監的組織結構與職掌，簡單扼要地敘述欽天監對多爾袞親王攝政、耶穌會士的效應、康熙-雍正帝與欽天監疇人世家何氏的關係、1730年日蝕誤報……等明、清兩代歷史事件發展的影響。《1620至1850年間的欽天監：天文世家、官僚主義與專業知能》（The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850: Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise）從天文學家家族的角度，介紹欽天監的社會史，對中華帝國史、 #科學史 與...(展开全部)

本書對科學史史家所知最引人入勝且歷史最悠久的機構之一：中國皇家天文機構（欽天監 ）提出新的見解，2,000年來此機構觀察、記錄、解釋並預測了天體的運行。利用檔案資料如呈給皇室閱覽的履歷、人事管理的記錄等，本書追索晚明至清末超過30個世代奉公於欽天監的家族的盛衰。亦深入介紹欽天監的組織結構與職掌，簡單扼要地敘述欽天監對多爾袞親王攝政、耶穌會士的效應、康熙-雍正帝與欽天監疇人世家何氏的關係、1730年日蝕誤報……等明、清兩代歷史事件發展的影響。《1620至1850年間的欽天監：天文世家、官僚主義與專業知能》（The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850: Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise）從天文學家家族的角度，介紹欽天監的社會史，對中華帝國史、 #科學史 與...(展开全部)

Deluxe Hardcover Edition Volume 2/5. Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of sc...(展开全部)

Deluxe Hardcover Edition Volume 2/5. Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of sc...(展开全部)

The Letters Racket--A is for Alfred, who left his poor wife ripe for a blackmailer late in her life. B is for Brothers, three of that name, who skewered one morning the fourth Brother's dame. On through the files of Q.B.I., from Bacon to Kidnap to a Poisoner's try. The victims are many, the killers are, too, and only Ellery Queen can find out who's who! * BLACKMAIL DEPT. -- Mon...(展开全部)

The Letters Racket--A is for Alfred, who left his poor wife ripe for a blackmailer late in her life. B is for Brothers, three of that name, who skewered one morning the fourth Brother's dame. On through the files of Q.B.I., from Bacon to Kidnap to a Poisoner's try. The victims are many, the killers are, too, and only Ellery Queen can find out who's who! * BLACKMAIL DEPT. -- Mon...(展开全部)