Effective C++是世界顶级C++大师Scott Meyers的成名之作，初版于1991年。在国际上，这本书所引起的反响之大，波及整个计算机技术出版领域，余音至今未绝。几乎在所有C++书籍的推荐名单上，这部专著都会位于前三名。作者高超的技术把握力，独特的视角、诙谐轻松的写作风格、独具匠心的内容组织，都受到极大的推崇和仿效。
书中的50条准则，每一条都扼要说明了一个可让你写出更好的C++ 程序代码的方法，并以特别设计过的例子详加讨论。在此第二版中，Meyers重新检验了每一准则，特别注意兼容于C++标准规格与现行编译器技术，并融入软件界对C++运用的最新观察结果。

From: http://www.auburn.edu/~garriro/r8lachmann.htm
Review Article: The Market as an Economic Process
by Ludwig M. Lachmann.
New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. xii, 173.
Ludwig M. Lachmann has been writing about markets for half a century. Having received his formal education in Germany by the early 1930s, Lachmann went to England where, along with fellow student G. L. S. Shackle, he studied under Friedrich A. Hayek. After writing and lecturing for some years in London, he settled in at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa for several decades of continued scholarship.
Until the mid 1970s Lachmann was known to Americans only through his writings, and his influence on American economics was not great. But in 1974 he was one of three lecturers featured at a conference on Austrian economics held in South Royalton, Vermont and sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. Beginning in 1975 and largely as a result of the South Royalton lectures, Professor Lachmann has taught each spring semester at New York University, returning to Johannesburg for the remainder of the year.(1)
The Market as an Economic Process, itself the result of a process that began several years ago, serves as the major focus of this review. A second volume, Subjectivism, Intelligibility, and Economic Understanding: Essays in Honor of Ludwig M. Lachmann on his Eightieth Birthday (New York: New York University Press, 1986), plays a minor role. Because of the diversity of the twenty three papers that make up this birthday offering, no comprehensive account can be undertaken. But two of those papers, one by the reviewer, will aid in linking the arguments in Lachmann's own book to an important issue that has captured the attention of Lachmann and his readers for the last several years: the presence—or absence—in the market process of a tendency toward equilibrium. But before dealing with this or any other substantive issue, let me focus attention on Lachmann's vision (as Joseph Schumpeter used the term) of the market economy.

Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader's attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we waited for a book like this? A very long time.
It is called How Capitalism Save America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present. It seems like just the right book to give a market skeptic. "You have doubts about capitalism? Read this." After years of interacting with students in an urban business-school environment, DiLorenzo knows precisely what are the main points of contention.
The chapters are short but precise and careful in choosing the right episodes to highlight and arguments to present to make his case. His main points come mostly from the Austrian tradition: the classic texts by Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Reisman, but also the public choice school, and also the best economic historians of our time. He begins with a definition and sweeping defense of capitalism, along with an eye-opening illustration of why such a defense in necessary, citing an egregious history of intellectual defenses of communism. Who remembers that John Dewey called Soviet communism "intrinsically religious" with the "moving spirit and force of primitive Christianity"?
The text never slows, as he marches through the history of the pilgrims, the American Revolution, the 19th century debate over internal improvements, the advancement of workers amidst capitalist advance, the myths of the Robber Barrons, the great depression, the New Deal, the energy crisis, and the modern debate on the environment, social regulation, and the war on vice. This whole book is a kind of guerilla manual for beating back the most common economic myths one is likely to encounter on campus or in public debate. Master this book and you have overcome most of the bad economic thinking of our time.

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties.
Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

Population is a prominent topic of debate following the world conference at the end of last year. This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled, and makes a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in, and manage, our world. Hardin suggests radical approaches to overpopulation and points out that the choices are hard, but we must not be afraid to carry out forceful solutions in order to better our world in the future.

《信息改变了美国》讲述的是19世纪晚期到20世纪美国经济社会发展变化进程中因为信息(或者说信息技术)而发生过的史诗般的传奇故事。这些传奇故事在每个传奇人物登场的时候，也都曾经闪烁过光芒四射的魅力。熟悉技术变革进程的工程师和管理者们，会如数家珍般地将每个时间进程中的历史事件、人物绘制在历史长廊之中，在一些细微环节的跌宕起伏背后，自然免不了隐藏着惋惜、慨叹和悲欢。揭开技术变革的神秘面纱和辉煌，将每个技术细节的发展演化对应于企业兴衰、产业消长以及经济社会转型，读者就不得不自觉打消猎奇的兴致而专心致志、耐心品味这样一部别有洞天的历史长卷。

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. The long-awaited third edition of this standard text maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the first and second editions so popular. It also offers significant new material, with new chapters covering such topics as bank valuation, the Black-Litterman approach to portfolio optimization, Monte Carlo methods and their applications to option pricing, and using array functions and formulas. Other chapters, including those on basic financial calculations, portfolio models, calculating the variance-covariance matrix, and generating random numbers, have been revised, with many offering substantially new and improved material. Other areas covered include financial statement modeling, leasing, standard portfolio problems, value at risk (VaR), real options, duration and immunization, and term structure modeling. Technical chapters treat such topics as data tables, matrices, the Gauss-Seidel method, and tips for using Excel. The last section of the text covers the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) techniques needed for the book. The accompanying CD contains Excel worksheets and solutions to end-of-chapter exercises.

"Time and Money" argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with the aid of a capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an area that until now has been neglected in favour of labour and money-based macroeconomics.

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针对这种状况，马萨诸塞州及其他各州决定对商业性的捕鱼以及一般钓鱼客的捕鱼量，都规定严格的限制。过度滥捕未必是鱼类供应明显减少的主因，但在环保人士的大力鼓吹之下，人们以为只要对捕鱼量设定上限，问题就能兜焦〉挠悖虮匦氚阉欠呕睾＠锶ァ?
这种方法，是用税率的高低来控制捕捞

The eagerly awaited new book from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show- anchoring Jon Stewart--the man behind the megaseller America (The Book) .

Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human race: What we looked like; what we accomplished; our achievements in society, government, religion, science and culture -- all in a tome of approximately 256 pages with lots of color photos, graphs and charts.

After two weeks of hard work, they had their book. Earth (The Book) is the definitive guide to our species. With their trademark wit, irreverence, and intelligence, Stewart and his team will posthumously answer all of life's most hard-hitting questions, completely unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity, or even accuracy.

启蒙时代，在狄德罗所编撰的法国百科全书里，“幸福”这个条目写道：“难道不是所有人都有幸福的权利吗？”在历史长河中，人类并非总是有如此的看法。现代人认为幸福是一种权利，是天赋的人权。本书所讲述的，正是西方人是怎么产生这种信念的历史故事。
对古希腊人来说，幸福意味着诸神特殊的恩赐，只属于“幸运的极少数人”。到了罗马时代，人们所珍爱的象征物则是阳具，幸福也就变成繁荣、丰产、权力、幸运的同义词。在基督教信仰里，幸福提供?这样一个应许：在将要来临的那个世界的永恒福乐中，一切苦难都要终结。启蒙时代从根本上改变了这种概念，把幸福视为一种所有人在此生中都能追求的目标，是一种在尘世应得的权利，甚至是一种义务。自此以后，幸福不再是神的赠礼，不再是命运玩弄的把戏，也不再是杰出表现的奖赏，而是人类与生俱有的能力，是所有男女老少都可以达到的目标。最终，启蒙的幸福信仰导致幸福观念在杰佛逊的《独立宣言》和法国的《人权宣言》中被圣化。而在十九世纪和二十世纪悲剧性的乌托邦实验背后，也有启蒙的幸福信仰的影响，因为乌托邦实验发誓要除去人世的所?悲苦，让所有人都能够获得幸福。
回顾二千年的文明历程，我们可以看到幸福自身迂回曲折的故事，而现代人的幸福观也只有二百年的历史。本书内容遍及文学、艺术、宗教、神话、音乐、建筑诸多领域，记述了人类最捉摸不定却又渴求不已的目标。

Sweet Reason focuses on how logic is used today by philosophers, lawyers, mathematicians, advertisers, computer scientists and politicians. It will help students develop essential skills for use now and and in their future careers.

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we’ve learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn’t it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown depression? Why have the responses to date of the government and the economics profession been so lackluster? Richard Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it. No previous acquaintance on the part of the reader with macroeconomics or the theory of finance is presupposed. This is a book for intelligent generalists that will interest specialists as well.
Among the facts and causes Posner identifies are: excess savings flowing in from Asia and the reckless lowering of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board; the relation between executive compensation, short-term profit goals, and risky lending; the housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates, aggressive mortgage marketing, and loose regulations; the low savings rate of American people; and the highly leveraged balance sheets of large financial institutions.
Posner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression: the monetarist—that the Federal Reserve Board allowed the money supply to shrink, thus failing to prevent a disastrous deflation—and the Keynesian—that the depression was the product of a credit binge in the 1920’s, a stock-market crash, and the ensuing downward spiral in economic activity. Posner concludes that the pendulum swung too far and that our financial markets need to be more heavily regulated.

《概率论沉思录(英文版)》将概率和统计推断融合在一起，用新的观点生动地描述了概率论在物理学、数学、经济学、化学和生物学等领域中的广泛应用，尤其是它阐述了贝叶斯理论的丰富应用，弥补了其他概率和统计教材的不足。全书分为两大部分。第一部分包括10章内容，讲解抽样理论、假设检验、参数估计等概率论的原理及其初等应用；第二部分包括12章内容，讲解概率论的高级应用，如在物理测量、通信理论中的应用。《概率论沉思录(英文版)》还附有大量习题，内容全面，体例完整。
《概率论沉思录(英文版)》内容不局限于某一特定领域，适合涉及数据分析的各领域工作者阅读，也可作为高年级本科生和研究生相关课程的教材。

Major changes in this edition include the substitution of probabilistic arguments for combinatorial artifices, and the addition of new sections on branching processes, Markov chains, and the De Moivre-Laplace theorem.