A practical guide to making more informed investment decisions Investors often buy or sell stocks too quickly. When you base your purchase decisions on isolated facts and don't take the time to thoroughly understand the businesses you are buying, stock-price swings and third-party opinion can lead to costly investment mistakes. Your decision making at this point becomes danger...(展开全部)

雷·布雷德伯里（Ray Bradbury，1920-2012） 美国科幻小说家、散文家、剧作家、编剧、诗人。代表作有《黑色嘉年华》《火星编年史》《华氏 451》《图案人》《蒲公英酒》等。其中《华氏 451》被美国国会图书馆选入“二十世纪最有影响力的一百本小说”，并由法国著名 导演弗朗索瓦·特吕弗拍成同名电影。 布雷德伯里非常高产，迄今已出版五百多篇（部）作品，他一生获奖无数，所荣获奖项包括“欧·亨利纪念奖”“富兰克林奖”“世界奇幻文学协会终生成就奖”“美国科幻小说作家协会大师奖”“普利策特殊贡献奖”，美国国家图书基金会颁发的“美国文学杰出贡献奖”……布雷德伯里的写作启发了无数读者，让他们勇于做梦、思考、创作。2012 年，在布雷德伯里逝世之后，美国航天总署（NASA）“好奇号”火星探测器将火星着陆点命名为“布雷德伯里”，以纪念这位伟大的科幻小说家。

Since its original publication in 1953, Zen in the Art of Archery has become one of the classic works on Eastern philosophy, the first book to delve deeply into the role of Zen in philosophy, development, and practice of Eastern martial arts. Wise, deeply personal, and frequently charming, it is the story of one man's penetration of the theory and practice of Zen Buddhism.Eugen...(展开全部)

媒體推薦 「在蒙古，狗死後會被埋在最高的山頭，這樣，就沒有任何人可以從牠的墳上踩過。狗的主人會在牠的耳邊輕聲許下願望，希望狗兒來世化成一個人，回到這個世界上。牠的尾巴會被會切下來擺在頭的下面，牠的嘴裡會擺著一塊肉，好讓牠有力氣旅行。在狗轉世之前，牠的靈魂可以自由地到處旅行，在高原沙漠上盡情奔馳。」 這是我在國家地理頻道的一個節目上看到的，我相信這是真的。節目上說，並不是所有的狗都會化為人回到世上，只有那些準備好的靈魂才會。 「我準備好了。」 Enzo 知道自己是一隻不一樣的狗，牠是一個哲學家，有著近似人類智慧的靈魂。他從電視節目中學習，也會仔細聆聽主人所說的話；牠的主人 Denny 是一名賽車手，Enzo 從主人身上學到許多人生的深刻體悟。人生就像賽車一樣，並不是只要「快」就好了；這件事在賽車場上非常重要，而能夠看透這一點的話，也就能看透人生遭遇的各...(展开全部)

In this fast-reading and illuminating expanded edition of the bestselling Leader's Checklist, world-renowned leadership expert Michael Useem deepens his examination of 15 mission-critical principles for leaders Based on the lessons from astonishing stories, solid research, and years of leadership development work with a wide array of companies and organizations in the United S...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second edit...(展开全部)

韦恩·C.布斯（Wayne C.Booth），芝加哥大学荣誉退休教授。 格雷戈里·G.卡洛姆（Gregory G.Colomb），弗吉尼亚大学英语语言文学教授。 约瑟夫·M.威廉姆斯（Joseph M.Williams），芝加哥大学英语语言文学荣誉退休教授。 他们三位曾在芝加哥大学联合讲授高级写作课程。在经过认真讨论确立本书的大纲及计划后，他们分工撰写各章，然后互换，每人对其他两人的部分进行修改，几轮过后才形成定稿。本书因此达到了很高的水平而成为一部经典。他们的合作也成为团队研究的成功标本。

In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting ...(展开全部)