The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness), but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our ...(展开全部)

阿兰•德波顿（Alain de Botton），英伦才子型作家，生于1969年，毕业于剑桥大学，现住伦敦。著有小说《爱情笔记》（1993）、《爱上浪漫》（1994）、《亲吻与述说》（1995）及散文作品《拥抱逝水年华》（1997）、《哲学的慰藉》（2000）、《旅行的艺 术》（2002）、《身份的焦虑》（2004）、《无聊的魅力》（2005）、《幸福的建筑》（2007）、《工作颂歌》（2009）、《机场里的小旅行》（2009）、《写给无神论者》（2012）。他的作品已被译成二十几种文字。

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously dive...(展开全部)

Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as one of the great novels of the century. We are now proud to announce a newly revised twentieth anniversary edition of Life. Carefully prepared, with many corrections, this edition of Life...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迪杰·法桑（Didier Fassin）生于1955年，是法国人类学家和社会学家，兼任法国高等社会科学院和美国普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学领域终身教授，已被任命为法兰西学院公共卫生主席。他曾在塞内加尔、厄瓜多尔、南非和法国进行实地研究。他最近的研究与“惩罚”和“生命”这两个主题有关，前者他在伯克利的坦纳人类价值讲座中有所论述；后者则是他在法兰克福学派大本营“阿多诺纪念讲座”的演讲主题，本书的三个主要章节便根源于此，浓缩并融汇了这位学者毕生工作的精华所在。 译者简介： 边和，1984年生，毕业于北京大学生命科学学院，获哈佛大学科学史博士学位。现任普林斯顿大学历史系与东亚系副教授。

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approach...(展开全部)

Convert theory into solutions Applied Corporate Finance, Second Edition converts the theory and models in corporate finance into tools that can be used to analyze, understand, and help any business. With this hands-on guide, you can find real solutions to real corporate finance problems, using real-time data. Offering a user perspective to corporate finance, this text poses t...(展开全部)

Readable and usable in style and valuable in approach, this text provides the practical and succinct advice that students and practitioners need, rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models. Like no other text of its kind, the author applies corporate finance to real companies. The new Third Edition has four real-world core companies to study and...(展开全部)

Readable and usable in style and valuable in approach, this text provides the practical and succinct advice that students and practitioners need, rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models. Like no other text of its kind, the author applies corporate finance to real companies. The new Third Edition has four real-world core companies to study and...(展开全部)

Convert theory into solutions Applied Corporate Finance, Second Edition converts the theory and models in corporate finance into tools that can be used to analyze, understand, and help any business. With this hands-on guide, you can find real solutions to real corporate finance problems, using real-time data. Offering a user perspective to corporate finance, this text poses t...(展开全部)