伊曼纽尔·德曼（Emanuel Derman） 教授，就职于哥伦比亚大学，主管金融工程项目。他出生于南非，但是职业生涯的大部分时间都在曼哈顿。他最早是一位理论物理学家，研究基本粒子相互作用的统一理论。20世纪80年代，在AT&T的贝尔实验室，他开发了商业模型的编程语言。1985～2002年，他在华尔街工作，期间与人合作开发了Black-Derman-Toy利率模型以及局部波动率模型。他此前的著作《宽客人生》以及《失灵：为什么看来可靠的模型最终都会失效》都是《商业周刊》前十大畅销书。 迈克尔B.米勒（Michael B. Miller） Northstar风险公司的创始人和首席执行官。在创立Northstar之前，他曾担任Tremblant资本的首席风险官，在那之前，他负责Fortress投资集团的量化风险管理业务。他曾出版著作《金融风险管理中的数学及...(展开全部)

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In sixth grade, the author tripped while running and lost her two front teeth. She describes the torturous dental surgeries and repairs. Accompanying the physical treatment came social rough spots, while growing up.

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and th...(展开全部)

The Last Don is a 1996 novel by American author Mario Puzo, best known as the author of the 1969 novel The Godfather. The story follows an aging Mafia Don and his family as they try to retain power. The story alternates between the film industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, and how the American Mafia is linked to both. The Last Don was adapted into a television miniseries o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair.

The best-selling textbook in its field, "The Last Dance" offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this acclaimed text provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives. The ninth e...(展开全部)

Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks. But then he's offered the role of a lifetime: $150,000 for a six-month acting gig. With a newly pregnant fiancee depending on him, it's an opportunity he can't refuse, even though the offer comes from the strangest employer imaginable: the FBI. The feds won a small victory when...(展开全部)