菲利普·L·凯瑞特（1896～1998）美国著名投资家、基金管理人。身为记者与“一战”飞行员的菲利普，最初为朋友和家人打理钱财，1928年他创办了Pioneer基金，后发展为现今的富达（Fidelity）共同基金，该基金公司为美国最大基金公司之一，由菲利普·L·凯瑞特的儿子和孙女掌管。菲利普掌管该基金55年，期间公司募集的投资额由１万美元变成800万美元。沃伦·巴菲特称他具有“最长期的投资纪录”。凯瑞特投资的成功秘诀，很大程度在于当别人未能发现某些小公司之前，他对这些公司的价值十分认可，如供水与桥梁公司的股票。他并不在意长期持有那些一直呆滞不动的股票。他与巴菲特身为挚友，并时常交换投资理念与秘诀。 《投机的艺术》一书，主要是凯瑞特作为Barron记者期间所写的系列投资文章，后一直成为投资的经典之作。 菲利普·L·凯瑞特于1998年...(展开全部)

Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the u...(展开全部)

The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge-who cheated their clients out of millions un...(展开全部)

"The Croods" takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodaceous period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. "The Art of The Croods" traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of concept art, character sketches, storyboards and digital paintings, and key talen...(展开全部)

A companion volume to the critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling World of Edena graphic novel, Moebius Library: The Art of Edena collects four fantastic Edena-related short stories and a motherlode of Moebius illustrations. A celebration of the imagery and creative enthusiasm Moebius held for his Edena universe and his characters Stel and Atan, the short stories "...(展开全部)

赫伯特・里德，英国诗人，艺术批评家和美术家，1933-1939年曾担任英国知名的艺术评论杂志《伯灵顿杂志》的编辑。里德一生著述颇丰，共有60余部作品问世。

到外地旅行——多麼令人興奮的念頭啊！通常，人們會找個氣候怡人的地方，見識有趣的風土民情，欣賞能喚起靈感的景物。然而，為什麼成行之後，卻往往覺得猶有遺憾？ 在本書裡，狄波頓帶領我們踏上旅途，從巴貝多、阿姆斯特丹、普羅旺斯、馬德里到西奈沙漠等地，經歷旅行中種種讓人嚮往與失望之處。 狄波頓還安排了許多位嚮導。他們是大名鼎鼎的作家、藝術家或思想家，也是深諳旅行滋味的行家，如梵谷、華滋華斯、福樓拜、波特萊爾、羅斯金，在書中與我們分享旅行的洞見。 透過這些旅程，狄波頓揭露了旅行中隱藏的慾望和錯綜複雜的面相，挑起無法抵擋的神祕幻想，並且指點我們如何提升旅行的快樂指數，遠離煩悶的日常生活，進入一個奇異世界。

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life , de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. E...(展开全部)