The spectacular photographs and insider information in this introduction to the often cryptic nature of life in Holland provide newcomers with cultural insight into how Dutch society works. The taboos and dilemmas of modern Holland are explored with contextual information about how these idiosyncrasies developed. Advice about engaging in the main themes of public debate and sug...(展开全部)

Dutch society's behavioral eccentricities are unveiled in this insider's guide to Holland and its people. For business people and sightseers making a long or brief visit to Holland, Dutch society might be difficult to navigate without this examination of egalitarianism and utilitarianism, organization and trade, and honor and privacy. This eye-opening guide offers insight into ...(展开全部)

The Low Sky: Understanding the Dutch, The book that makes the Netherlands familiar The author, historian Han van der Horst, paints a picture of Dutch society and the Dutch psyche. The first edition (1995) became an immediate bestseller among expatriates in the Netherlands. In this new, seventh edition, completely updated version, Van der Horst once again portrays the weird and ...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description A guide to beating the market for all ages Two years in MBA school won’ t teach you how to double the market’ s return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will. Hedge fund manager and Columbia Business School Professor Joel Greenblatt has set out to show, in step-by step fashion, how beating the market can be made simple and easy for...(展开全部)

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it’s the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with grea...(展开全部)

菲利普·迪克出生于美国芝加哥，之后在加利福尼亚州度过了大半生。1952年，他开始专职写作，终其一生，除四十四部长篇小说外，迪克还创作了一百二十一篇中短篇故事。 迪克只得过一次雨果奖、一次坎贝尔纪念奖，却被誉为“科幻作家中的科幻作家”。他一生中大多数时间都挣扎在贫困的边缘，但去世之后，他的十部作品包括《银翼杀手》《全面回忆》《少数派报告》等被好莱坞搬上大银幕，深受大众欢迎。 2007年，迪克的作品被收入“美国文库”系列，这一系列专门收录美国经典文学，而迪克是第一位入选该系列的科幻作家。

While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton figures out how he and his compatriots can escape this world and return to their...(展开全部)

菲利普·迪克出生于美国芝加哥，之后在加利福尼亚州度过了大半生。1952年，他开始专职写作，终其一生，除四十四部长篇小说外，迪克还创作了一百二十一篇中短篇故事。 迪克只得过一次雨果奖、一次坎贝尔纪念奖，却被誉为“科幻作家中的科幻作家”。他一生中大多数时间都挣扎在贫困的边缘，但去世之后，他的十部作品包括《银翼杀手》《全面回忆》《少数派报告》等被好莱坞搬上大银幕，深受大众欢迎。 2007年，迪克的作品被收入“美国文库”系列，这一系列专门收录美国经典文学，而迪克是第一位入选该系列的科幻作家。