If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must learn neither to avoid risk nor to court it foolhardily, but to manage it - and enjoy it too. The 12 major and 16 minor Zurich Axioms contained in this book are a set of principles providing a practical philosophy for the realistic management of risk, which can be followed successfully by anyone, not merely the 'experts'. Several of the Axioms fly right in the face of the traditional wisdom of the investment advice business - yet the enterprising Swiss speculators who devised them became rich, while many investors who follow the conventional path do not. Max Gunther, whose father was one of the original speculators who devised the Axioms, made his first capital gain on the stock market at the age of 13 and has never looked back. Now the rest of us can follow in his footsteps. Startlingly straightforward, the Axioms are explained in a book that is not only extremely entertaining but will prove invaluable to any investor, whether in stocks, commodities, art, antiques or real estate, who is willing to take risk on its own terms and chance a little to gain a lot.

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day ' In just one hour a day, you'll have all the skills you need to begin programming in C++. With this complete tutorial, you'll quickly master the basics and then move on to more advanced features and concepts: * Master the fundamentals of C++ and object-oriented programming * Learn some of the more advanced features of C++ * Learn the Standard Template Library and the containers and algorithms used in most real-world C++ applications * Learn how to build effective programs in C++ with hands-on exercises * Get expert tips on implementing C++ in the corporate environment ' Learn on your own time, at your own pace * No previous programming experience required * Learn C++ and object-oriented design, programming, and analysis * Write fast and powerful C++ programs, compile the source code, and create executable files * Understand the latest ANSI standard * Use the Standard Template Library's algorithms and containers to write feature-rich yet stable C++ applications * Develop sophisticated programming techniques with functions, arrays, variables, and smart pointers * Learn to expand your program's power with inheritance and polymorphism * Master the features of C++ by learning from programming experts * Works with all ANSI C++ compilers

<b>A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.</b><br /><br />Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there's a psychological force just as powerful – yet almost nobody has heard of it. It's responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In <i>Wanting</i>, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies.<br /><br />According to Girard, humans don't desire anything independently. Human desire is <i>mimetic</i> – we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare's plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected.<br /><br /><i>Wanting</i> also shows that conflict does not arise because of our differences--it comes from our sameness. Because we learn to want what other people want, we often end up competing for the same things. Ignoring our large similarities, we cling to our perceived differences.<br /><br />Drawing on his experience as an entrepreneur, teacher, and student of classical philosophy and theology, Burgis shares tactics that help turn blind wanting into intentional wanting – not by trying to rid ourselves of desire, but by desiring differently. It's possible to be more in control of the things we want, to achieve more independence from trends and bubbles, and to find more meaning in our work and lives.<br /><br />The future will be shaped by our desires. <i>Wanting</i> shows us how to desire a better one.

"As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition--except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against." --From the Foreword by Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media "This book is fun and functional as a desktop reference. If you use UNIX and Linux systems, you need this book in your short-reach library. It covers a bit of the systems' history but doesn't bloviate. It's just straightfoward information delivered in colorful and memorable fashion." --Jason A. Nunnelley "This is a comprehensive guide to the care and feeding of UNIX and Linux systems. The authors present the facts along with seasoned advice and real-world examples. Their perspective on the variations among systems is valuable for anyone who runs a heterogeneous computing facility." --Pat Parseghian The twentieth anniversary edition of the world's best-selling UNIX system administration book has been made even better by adding coverage of the leading Linux distributions: Ubuntu, openSUSE, and RHEL. This book approaches system administration in a practical way and is an invaluable reference for both new administrators and experienced professionals. It details best practices for every facet of system administration, including storage management, network design and administration, email, web hosting, scripting, software configuration management, performance analysis, Windows interoperability, virtualization, DNS, security, management of IT service organizations, and much more. UNIX(R) and Linux(R) System Administration Handbook, Fourth Edition, reflects the current versions of these operating systems: Ubuntu(R) Linux openSUSE(R) Linux Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) Oracle America(R) Solaris(t) (formerly Sun Solaris) HP HP-UX(R) IBM AIX(R)

Super Founders  uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false!
 
Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one—30,000 data points on nearly every number of competitors, market size, the founder’s age, his or her university’s ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a  
You will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders/investors of  Zoom, Instacart, PayPal, Nest, Github, Flatiron Health, Kite Pharma, Facebook, Stripe, Airbnb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase , and  Square , venture capital investors like  Elad Gil ,  Peter Thiel ,  Alfred Lin  from  Sequoia Capital  and  Keith Rabois  of  Founders Fund , as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok), WhatsApp, Dropbox, Discord, DiDi, Flipkart, Instagram, Careem, Peloton, and SpaceX.
 
Packed with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies,  Super Founders  is a paradigm-shifting and  actionable  guide for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful.

Praise for Damn Right!
From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . .
"Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual." -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
"Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger's curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era's heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer's detachment, an historian's thoroughness, and a financial writer's common sense, Lowe produces a riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of the idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure." -LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School, Author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
"For years, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and investors worldwide (me included) have struggled to learn more about Warren Buffett's cerebral sidekick. Now we can rest and enjoy reading Janet Lowe's book about this rare intellectual jewel called Charlie Munger." -ROBERT G. HAGSTROM, Author of The Warren Buffett Way
"Charlie has lived by the creed that one should live a life that doesn't need explaining. But his life should be explained. In a city where heroism is too often confused with celebrity, Charlie is a true hero and mentor. He lives the life lessons that he has studiously extracted from other true heroes and mentors, from Ben Franklin to Ben Graham. This book illuminates those life lessons." -RONALD L. OLSON, Munger, Tolles & Olson llp
"Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful."-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us.

直击美国制宪会议现场，看五十五位开国先贤的激辩与妥协。
美国大中学生必读经典，轻松幽默而不乏严谨专家资中筠、贺卫方、刘苏里、刘瑜一致推荐美国宪法是讨价还价和妥协的结果，尽管并不完美，但美国能建成一个受人尊敬的国家，而不是因内讧四分五裂，完全在于这部宪法。
而正是在几近绝望的气氛里，会议缔造出世界上第一部成文宪法——美国宪法。
鲍恩生动再现了当年联邦制宪会议上唇枪舌剑的激辩，活灵活现地还原了美国先贤们的独特个性。他们在矛盾与妥协，在偏见与坦诚中，进行这项史无前例的大实验。

小说中的故事发生在1861年美国南北战争前夕。生活在南方的少女郝思嘉从小深受南方文化传统的熏陶，可在她的血液里却流淌着野性的叛逆因素。随着战火的蔓廷和生活环境的恶化，郝思嘉的叛逆个性越来越丰满，越鲜明，在一系列的的挫折中她改造了自我，改变了个人甚至整个家族的命运，成为时代时势造就的新女性的形象。
作品在描绘人物生活与爱情的同时，勾勒出南北双方在政治，经济，文化各个层次的异同，具有浓厚的史诗风格，堪称美国历史转折时期的真实写照，同时也成为历久不衰的爱情经典。

本书是美国学者的一部汉学研究力作。作者研究的是公元前900年至公元前100年之间中国北疆地区的历史，他将中国的历史文本和考古资料相结合，对早期中国与草原游牧民族的对抗关系进行了深入研究,对于众所周知的历史事件进行了新的诠释，其中包括：后来连接成为“长城”的早期各个防御城墙的筑造；世界历史上有第一个游牧民族所建立的帝国——匈奴帝国的形成；致使中国军队征服西北地区，从而开通了一条与中亚的商贸通道的一系列历史事件，等等。

自由主义中的保守派只能接受形式上的平等，也就是法律面前人人平等的原则；而自由平等主义者则表现出对于实质平等的强烈关怀。罗尔斯在《正义论》当中提出了关于正义的两条原则：第一条是所谓平等的自由原则，即每个人应该在社会中享有平等的自由权利；第二条原则包括差别原则与机会平等原则。前者要求在进行分配的时候，如果不得不产生某种不平等的话，这种不平等应该有利于境遇最差的人们的最大利益，就是说，利益分配应该像处于不利地位的人们倾斜；后者要求将机会平等的原则应用于社会经济的不平等，使具有同等能力、技术与动机的人们享有平等的获得职位的机会。煌煌50万言的文字，便是围绕这两个原则展开的。

本书论述了资本主义世界经济体系，即现代世界体系的起源与发展的历程。现代世界体系发端于欧洲的部分地区，后来不断发展，逐渐把世界其他一些地区纳入其中，直至覆盖全球。作者认为，21世界中期资本主义世界体系将让位于后继的体系（一个或多个）。我们不能预测他会是一个什么样的体系，但能通过我们目前政治的和道德的活动来影响其结果。本书享誉西方学术界，是西方大学生必读的参考书。它不是一般的世界近现代史著作，而是一部整体地阐述近5个半世纪世界历史进程的综合性宏观论著。

本书论述了资本主义世界经济体系，即现代世界体系的起源与发展的历程。现代世界体系发端于欧洲的部分地区，后来不断发展，逐渐把世界其他一些地区纳入其中，直至覆盖全球。作者认为，21世界中期资本主义世界体系将让位于后继的体系（一个或多个）。我们不能预测他会是一个什么样的体系，但能通过我们目前政治的和道德的活动来影响其结果。本书享誉西方学术界，是西方大学生必读的参考书。它不是一般的世界近现代史著作，而是一部整体地阐述近5个半世纪世界历史进程的综合性宏观论著。

本书以全新的视角阐述了15世纪以来资本主义世界体系自萌芽、产生，到发展、繁荣、衰落的历史过程。16世纪时，随着资本主义生产方式的发展，以西北欧为中心，形成“世界性经济体系”，即“资本主义的世界经济体”，它由中心区、半边缘区和边缘区三个组成部分联结成为一个整体的结构。自该体系形成之后，始终处于变动之中；其内部也经历了剧烈的斗争和不断的自我调节。该体系现已进入“混乱的告终”时期，势必要由一种具有更高生产效率和更合理的“收入分配制度”的新的世界体系取代。作者认为：到2l世纪中叶资本主义世界体系将让位于后继的体系，而我们目前的政治和道德的活动将对其结果有着重大的影响。本书的第一、二、三卷由高等教育出版社独家引进出版，第四卷尚待引进。

本书为美国宪法史上一部经典著作。作者对制宪会议的卓负声誉的叙述，对当时的各种情况、各种信念以及制定美国宪法的那些人提供了生动的分析。作者利用他对制宪会议每日详尽记录的知识以及其他宝贵的材料，例如重要代表之间的私人通信，威廉·皮尔斯的敏锐的对其他表的性格描写，当时的小册子，以及代表们对他们自己的政府所作的报告等等，对这些历史程序作了鲜明的刻画。

青年学生萨尔为追求个性自由，与狄安（以卡萨迪为原型）、玛丽露等一伙男女开车横穿全美，一路狂喝滥饮，耽迷酒色，流浪吸毒，性放纵，在经过精疲力竭的漫长放荡后，开始笃信东方禅宗，感悟到生命的意义。小说主人公及其伙伴沿途搭车或开车，几次横越美国大陆，最终到了墨西哥。
《在路上》体现了作者主张的即兴式自发性写作技巧，并广泛涉及美国社会一文化习俗，都给理解和翻译带来很大困难。