南非真相与和解委员会的成立是件具有开创性意义的国际事件。从未有哪个国家尝试过以这样的方式完成从独裁到民主的转变，那就是在揭露昔日压迫者暴行的同时又与其达成和解。这场史无前例的疗救祖国运动的中心人物，是被纳尔逊·曼德拉总统提名为真相与和解委员会主席的德斯蒙德·图图大主教。随着委员会报告的最终出版，图图大主教向人们奉献了他在引领南非走出痛苦经历的过程中所获得的深邃智慧。 在《没有宽恕就没有未来》中，图图认为否定历史的做法并不能实现真正的和解。但如果国家“复仇心切”，要达成和解也并非易事。图图没有重复关于宽恕的陈词滥调，却表现出一种无畏的高贵精神，即在承认人与人之间所能施加的恐怖的同时，仍然保留了一份对于和解的理想情怀。图图以其数十年任职经验所拥有的明晰思路，向读者展示了怎样以真诚和理解的心态去建设一个更新、更具人性精神的世界。

Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In My Life as a Quant, he traces his transformation from ambitious young scientist to managing director and head of the renowned Quantitative Strategies group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Derman’s tale recounts his adventures with quants, traders and other high fliers on Wall Street as he became the best-known quant in the business. He describes the struggles of research and his interactions with an assorted cast of famous scientists. He relates his impressions of some of the most creative minds on Wall Street, including Fischer Black, with whom he collaborated on the widely used Black-Derman-Toy model of interest rates. Throughout his story he reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets and the people that inhabit them.

本书获选《商业周刊》十大好书。
2000年国际金融工程师协会年度金融工程师，2002年入选《风险》杂志名人堂。
自资本资产定价模型和布莱克-肖尔斯模型被发明之后，宽客成为华尔街的新宠，因为投资银行和基金公司必须采用日益复杂的数量交易策略和衍生产品。我几乎每天都与这些受过科学训练的宽客们打交道。本书作者伊曼纽尔·德曼是华尔街的顶级宽客，至今仍享盛名。他是首批转战华尔街的高能实验物理学家之一，在十几年中创建了对今天影响深远的众多金融交易模型。本书精彩纷呈，分析了物理学与金融学之间的关联和不同，讲述了许多物理学巨匠和金融学大师的故事；既可作为通俗金融读物，也可供希望了解宽客之道的理工科入学生，研究生和各界人士欣赏。——清华大学金融学特聘教授，巴克莱银行中国研究主管 黄海洲
这部自传精彩如同小说。关于德曼从数学物理学者转战金融领域、从高盛跳到所罗门兄弟公闭的传奇故事，告诉了我们如何开动脑筋让财富自己生长。——诺贝尔经济学奖得主 保罗·萨缪尔森
这是本精彩之极的门传，它记叙了这样一个特別的时代，在这个时代，科学家发现了华尔街，而华尔街也发现了科学家。——麻省理工学院斯隆商学院弗兰科·莫迪里亚尼讲席教授 史蒂夫·罗斯
从“至刚”的物理学家转向“至柔”的金融家的心路历程……我还没有见过其他哪本著述能如此完美地跨越这两种文化。——《随机致富的傻瓜》作者 纳西姆·塔勒布
华尔街早已不是古尔德、摩根那种老式的神秘商人的做派了。近年来，投资银行和对冲基金纷纷采用数量交易策略和衍生产品组合，招募名牌大学的理工科博士和教授，为复杂多变的产品建模并控制风险。今天，几乎所有公司的财富和市场的稳定性都建筑于数学模型上。“宽客”（Quant）——受过严格科学训练的数量金融师——正是这些模型的创建者，他们是华尔街舞台上未来的明星。
在形形色色的宽客中，没有人比伊曼纽尔·德曼更出名。他是首批“移民”华尔街的高能实验物理学家之一，历经十七年的商海生涯，逐渐成为高盛公司数量策略小组的领导人，并与布莱克等人合作创建了对今天影响深远的众多金融交易模型。
本书叙述了德曼从物理学家到金融宽客的人生跨越，他曾是爱因斯坦、薛定谔、李政道等物理学巨匠的门徒，进入金融领域后又与众多分析师、交易员和基金经理人共事。作者力图拨开重重迷雾，探索物理与金融的相似之道与诡异之处，借此让读者从局内人的角度一窥华尔街的另类群体——宽客们——的人生图卷。

Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe, and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing - and lays bare the shocking and inextricable links between the two. "The Shadow World" places us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing, ranging from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels via far-flung offshore havens, and reveals the profound danger this network represents to all of us.

Appropriate for upper-division undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in computer vision found in departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. This long anticipated book is the most complete treatment of modern computer vision methods by two of the leading authorities in the field. This accessible presentation gives both a general view of the entire computer vision enterprise and also offers sufficient detail for students to be able to build useful applications. Students will learn techniques that have proven to be useful by first-hand experience and a wide range of mathematical methods.

"[Yourgrau] presents the nature of an intimate friendship between two magnificent thinkers and the nature of Godel's work, which inspired Einstein but is now lost in obscurity." (Deseret Morning News)
In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close friends; they walked to and from their offices every day, exchanging ideas about science, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result reluctantly but he could find no way to refute it, since then, neither has anyone else. Yet cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded as if this discovery was never made. In A World Without Time, Palle Yourgrau sets out to restore Godel to his rightful place in history, telling the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue the brilliant work they did together.
"[A World Without Time is] very interesting if you like [scientific] speculation. Even if you don't, the descriptions of the friendship between Godel and Einstein-Einstein said he went to his office at Princeton University mainly so that he would have the pleasure of Gšdel's company on his walk back home-make this book interesting." (Wisconsin State Journal)
如果时间只是幻想，而非真实存在，那世界将会怎样？作为一名哲学教授，此书作者在书中阐释说，爱因斯坦的相对论将允许这种可能性，而第一个意识到这一点的则是哥德尔。很多人都知道，哥德尔和爱因斯坦是非常亲密的朋友。他们每天都要一同从普林斯顿高等研究所步行回家，他们分享物理学、哲学以及政治上的想法。但是并不广为人知的是，哥德尔于1949年做出了一项不寻常的发现：他认为爱因斯坦的相对论提供了一种可能性，即可能存在一个没有时间的世界。作者以一种哲学的背景加以思考而认为，哥德尔的发现势必会带来这样一个后果：假如哥德尔是对的，那么爱因斯坦并没有解释何为时间，而只是将这个问题搪塞过去了。爱因斯坦意识到他的朋友已经对相对论做出了重要的贡献，因为正是他对其理论提出了一个令人困扰的新问题：他的理论中是否还应保留时间。爱因斯坦之后的物理学家并未在哥德尔的理论中找出什么有误的成分，而哲学家们则保持沉默。此书所聚焦的正是哥德尔和爱因斯坦之间这戏剧性的一幕，并且将它置于20世纪人类智慧发展的大背景之下来讲述。在哥德尔和爱因斯坦生活的年代，无论是物理学、数学、哲学还是艺术都获得了非常大的进步。在这一背景之下，两位思想者的友谊故事无疑是动人心弦的。

What happens when a young hedge fund manager spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a true value investor.
This book traces the arc of a transformation. Author Guy Spier started his career as a Gordon Gekko wannabe -- brash, short-sighted and entirely out for himself. Then, a series of transformations and self-realizations led him from an investment banking job with a third-rate firm to managing his own fund, which has generated tremendous returns for his investors. His journey began with the discovery of Ben Graham's The Intelligent Investor, then took him on a path to a life-changing meeting with the renowned investor Mohnish Pabrai, followed by his famous lunch with Warren Buffett. That $650,100 meal proved to be a bargain, teaching Spier some of the most valuable lessons of his life.
Along the way, he has gained many powerful insights about investing and business, including: why the right mentors and role models are the key to long-term success as an investor; how a top-notch education can get in your way; why self-knowledge is so critical to becoming a great investor; and how Buffett taught him that the ultimate goal in life is to be true to yourself.
This book is an extraordinarily candid memoir that takes the reader into some of the darkest corners of Wall Street. It's also a remarkably smart and practical guide to what it takes to become a successful investor. Most important, Guy Spier provides those who want to take a different path with the insight, guidance and inspiration they need to succeed on their own terms.

This book provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the first Dutch settlers in Table Bay and is packed full of photographs and illustrations. The diaries of Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the new Dutch colony at Table Bay in South Africa, document the struggle to survive in a new environment. Whether repelling attacks from wild animals, bartering with the indigenous tribes, or importing slaves to manage their crops, the diaries provide a valuable historical insight into the harsh reality of settling new colonies. The diaries also detail the success of new skills brought to the community by Malays and the influx of Huguenot refugees in 1685 and finally the misfortunes that eventually brought Dutch rule to an end. In 1652, the first Dutch settlers arrived on the shores of Table Bay, having survived the hazardous journey from the Netherlands. The site, which later became known as Cape Town, had a climate in which European crops could flourish. It was here that Jan van Riebeeck was instructed by the Dutch East Indies company to found a new community. He documented the details in his diary for posterity.