 全球私募之王黑石集团成长史
 私募股权业的全景式展现，一部了解全球私募股权业的权威读本：一个财富金字塔构筑的故事；一段创造者与掠夺者的风雨传奇；一场私募股权业并购的饕餮盛宴；
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 一个财富金字塔构筑的故事：黑石从仅有三个人的小公司发展成为美国最大的上市投资管理公司。创始人史蒂夫•施瓦兹曼3.98亿美元的年薪和6.84亿美元的黑石IPO所得，究竟从何而来？
 一段创造者与掠夺者的风雨传奇：看清私募股权公司与生俱来的双重面孔，他们究竟是在猎食那些被收购的公司还是助其发展、共同增值？
 一场私募股权业并购的饕餮盛宴：黑石及其同行不仅在全球掀起并购浪潮，而且在华尔街向高盛、摩根士丹利这样的金融巨头发起挑战。黑石仅仅控制着51家公司、雇佣了50万人，然而却有1710亿美元的年销售额！

Leonardo da Vinci once mused that “we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot,” an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds of snails and slugs. But because of their location and size, many of these creatures are as unfamiliar and bizarre to us as anything found at the bottom of the ocean.
Lavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred color illustrations and masterfully-rendered black and white drawings throughout, Life in the Soil invites naturalists and gardeners alike to dig in and discover the diverse community of creatures living in the dirt below us.  Biologist and acclaimed natural history artist James B. Nardi begins with an introduction to soil ecosystems, revealing the unseen labors of underground organisms maintaining the rich fertility of the earth as they recycle nutrients between the living and mineral worlds. He then introduces readers to a dazzling array of creatures: wolf spiders with glowing red eyes, snails with 120 rows of teeth, and 10,000-year-old fungi, among others. Organized by taxon, Life in the Soil covers everything from slime molds and roundworms to woodlice and dung beetles, as well as vertebrates from salamanders to shrews. The book ultimately explores the crucial role of soil ecosystems in conserving the worlds above and below ground.
A unique and illustrative introduction to the many unheralded creatures that inhabit our soils and shape our environment aboveground, Life in the Soil will inform and enrich the naturalist in all of us.

本书试图从帝国之中，尤其是大英帝国在19世纪上半叶重塑帝国宪法并通过其构建世界秩序的无序式努力中探寻国际法的起源。为我们呈现了世界历史中的一个重要时期，当时，维系全球秩序的是帝国法，而非国际法。这段影响深远的历史将改变我们今天对于大英帝国遗产及国际法之含义的理解。

中國國家開發銀行，堪稱為全球的「超級銀行」。在國內，它協助地方政府進行翻天覆地的變革；在國外，全球多個國家都倚賴它提供貸款，其影響力舉足輕重。 本書作者是彭博新聞社的資深新聞從業員，他們以西方傳媒的視角，一步一步揭開國家開發銀行的神秘面紗，挖掘國家開發銀行如何在紅二代陳元的領導下，由一個擁有大量不良貸款的銀行，漸漸強盛起來，並且從世界舞台崛起。本書詳細分析了國家開發銀行怎樣通過地方融資平台、發行債券來協助多個地方政府如天津、重慶、婁底等進行大量建設，從而刺激中國的經濟增長。此外，又聚焦於國家開發銀行與全球各國的關係，尤其是與非洲與南美國家的巨額貸款協議，探究其怎樣逐步提升在國際的影響力，以及它所面對的各種金融危機。 這不僅是一本關於中國國家開發銀行的書，更是關於中國崛起為一個全球性的超級經濟體系的書。

"A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent--which is just what the field needs".--Kirkus Reviews.

《马赫：物理学家和哲学家》是美国科学哲学界对马赫的一部研究纪念文集，是美国著名的“波士顿科学哲学研究丛书”中的一种。本文集由美国科学哲学学会前主席R.S.科恩主编。文集中主要篇目有：前言；恩斯特·马赫：作为教师和思想家的生活；马赫对感觉分析的贡献；马赫对气体动力学的贡献；马赫对激波的求知欲；马赫和当代物理学；马赫：物理学、知觉和科学哲学；马赫、爱因斯坦和实在论的探索；马赫原理和爱因斯坦的引力理论；马赫的科学哲学对我们时代的重要性；马赫和科学统一；马赫和经验论者的科学概念；马赫的生物学的知识论等。

Take control of your privacy by removing your personal information from the internet with this second edition.
Author Michael Bazzell has been well known in government circles for his ability to locate personal information about anyone through the internet. In Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online Information, he exposes the resources that broadcast your personal details to public view. He has researched each source and identified the best method to have your private details removed from the databases that store profiles on all of us.
This book will serve as a reference guide for anyone that values privacy. Each technique is explained in simple steps. It is written in a hands-on style that encourages the reader to execute the tutorials as they go. The author provides personal experiences from his journey to disappear from public view.
Much of the content of this book has never been discussed in any publication. Always thinking like a hacker, the author has identified new ways to force companies to remove you from their data collection systems. This book exposes loopholes that create unique opportunities for privacy seekers. Among other techniques, you will learn to:
Remove your personal information from dozens of public databases and people search websites
Create free anonymous mail addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers
Control your privacy settings on social networks and remove sensitive data
Provide disinformation to conceal true private details
Force data brokers to stop sharing your information with both private and public organizations
Prevent marketing companies from monitoring your browsing, searching, and shopping habits
Remove your landline and cellular telephone numbers from online websites
Use a credit freeze to eliminate the worry of financial identity theft and fraud
Change your future habits to promote complete privacy and anonymity
Conduct a complete background check to verify proper information removal

Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no such thing--that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised, and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention, and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciousness.

Bodie, Kane, and Marcus' "Investments" sets the standard for graduate/MBA investments textbooks. It blends practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate rigor and a clear writing style. Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. The text places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader and deeper treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets than most investment texts. It is also the only graduate "Investments" text to offer an online homework management system, 'McGraw-Hill's Connect Finance'.

"Bring[s] both entertainment and enlightenment to the subject of how modern philosophical thought challenged the church's doctrine on the relationship between God and man and led to democratic challenges to monarchy and the divine right of kings... Nimbly advance[s] through a little more than a century in fewer than 200 pages, presenting a primer that can instruct those new to the period while serving as a refresher for readers who have forgotten what they studied in history and philosophy."--Kirkus "A quick introduction to the basic figures and concepts of modern philosophy as it was developed in the 17th century. Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, and other philosophers pop up to discuss, and sometimes argue, about the nature of matter, the existence of God, mind-body dualism, the structure of society, and even the existence of knowledge itself. The authors use quotes from the philosophers themselves and quickly place them in historical context, and the lively illustrations keep the narrative from getting bogged down."--Brigid Alverson, School Library Journal "Being a philosopher in the 17th century was a dangerous career choice. At odds with the Catholic church, Western philosophy found itself in a precarious position that would sometimes end in violence. Written by the father-son team Steven and Ben Nadler, the comic book aims to turn the trials of early scientific thought into a riveting graphic narrative. With the help of colorful illustrations and jokes, the duo is able to make complicated philosophical ideas easier to digest for a larger group of readers as well as offer up plenty of drama."--Mental Floss

How deep learning -- from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants -- is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.
The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormus profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players and defeat a world champion at Go. In this book, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep learning went from being an arcane academic field to a disruptive technology in the information economy.
Sejnowski played an important role in the founding of deep learning, as one of a small group of researchers in the 1980s who challenged the prevailing logic-and-symbol based version of AI. The new version of AI Sejnowski and others developed, which became deep learning, is fueled instead by data. Deep networks learn from data in the same way that babies experience the world, starting with fresh eyes and gradually acquiring the skills needed to navigate novel environments. Learning algorithms extract information from raw data; information can be used to create knowledge; knowledge underlies understanding; understanding leads to wisdom. Someday a driverless car will know the road better than you do and drive with more skill; a deep learning network will diagnose your illness; a personal cognitive assistant will augment your puny human brain. It took nature many millions of years to evolve human intelligence; AI is on a trajectory measured in decades. Sejnowski prepares us for a deep learning future.

The Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Books "...5-star Highly Recommended rating in the national survey... Some mental health professionals call (it) 'the assertiveness bible，' they think so highly of it... this is an excellent self-help book." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Gary Emery， Ph.D.， Psychologist; Author of The Positive Force "Not only is it the best book on assertiveness， it sets the standard for self-help books in general." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

Undergraduate students with no prior classroom instruction in mathematical logic will benefit from this evenhanded multipart text by one of the centuries greatest authorities. Part I offers an elementary but thorough overview of mathematical logic of first order. Part II introduces some of the newer ideas and the more profound results of logical research in the twentieth century. 1967 edition.