舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson，1876—1941），美国现代文学的先驱和教父，被认为是美国第一位现代意义上的小说家。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、卡佛等一众文学大师，海明威称他“我们所有人的老师”，福克纳称他“我们这一代作家的父亲”。幼年生活艰辛，后从商小有成就，四十岁时抛家弃业，投身文学，安德森为人宽厚热忱，曾一手提携海明威、福克纳等年轻作家，还帮福克纳出版了他的第一本书。安德森的小说代表作有《俄亥俄，温斯堡》（又译《小城畸人》）《鸡蛋的胜利》《马与人》《林中之死》《暗笑》等。

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“[Taleb is] Wall Street’s principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church.” – Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world.This book is about luck: m...(展开全部)

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sens...(展开全部)

“[Taleb is] Wall Street’s principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church.” – Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world.This book is about luck: m...(展开全部)

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sens...(展开全部)

Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe...(展开全部)

伊莱恩•斯卡利（Elaine Scarry）， 英美文学语言学教授，哈佛大学Walter M. Cabot美学教授，认知接受美学的倡导者，在当代文艺理论界有重要的影响力具有重大的影响。其论著颇丰，主要代表作有：《论美与正义》（On Beauty and Being Just，普林斯顿，1999）、《痛苦中的躯体》（The Body in Pain，1985）等。

Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in ...(展开全部)

Shortly before noon on October 28, 1728, General Yue Zhongqi, the most powerful military and civilian official in northwest China, was en route to his headquarters. Suddenly, out of the crowd, a stranger ran toward Yue and passed him an envelope-an envelope containing details of a treasonous plot to overthrow the Manchu government. This thrilling story of a conspiracy agains...(展开全部)