本书描述了历史上从中国西周到乌干达北部的伊克族等二十多个由简单社会进化到相对复杂的社会后却走向崩溃的案例，并回顾了两千多年来后人对于这些崩溃现象的解释。作者还阐释了复杂社会的性质，并通过在社会政治复杂化领域具有广泛代表性的罗马文明、玛雅文明、查科文明从兴起到衰落的详细研究，为理解崩溃现象提供了一个新的视角，那就是从社会复杂化投资的边际回报（即每增加一个单位的劳动投入所带来的产量增加的回报）来判断一个社会是处于向更高阶段发展的复杂化进程中，还是正走向相反的崩溃进程。

曾國藩說：「一部《榮枯鑒》，道盡小人之秘技，人生之榮枯。它使小人汗顏，君子驚悚，實乃千年不二之異書也。」
小人不是「惹不起」、不是「躲不掉」，小人並非不可戰勝，小人的罩門是有跡可循、可以破解的，只有瞭解小人，才可以戰勝小人；洞悉其奸，才能防範在先，這是《榮枯鑒》給我們的啟發。
縱觀中國歷史，不難發現一種奇特現象：人們讚揚、歌頌忠臣，忠臣卻多是命運坎坷，下場悲慘；抨擊、批判奸佞，奸佞卻多是逍遙自在，平步青雲。小人令人不齒，君子使人欽佩，但兩者生存狀況的迥異，卻使人們面臨選擇的兩難，成了人生的大難題。
《榮枯鑒》是中國歷史上最早出現的評述小人「智慧」的專著，作者馮道可稱得上中國官場歷史上一個真正獨一無二的奇蹟。《榮枯鑒》說，做君子得不到實在的利益，而小人卻不知恥，不擇手段，結果獲利頗豐，結果人皆遠君子為小人且揚君子之旗行小人之道。
清?曾國藩：「一部《榮枯鑒》，道盡小人之秘技，人生之榮枯，它使小人汗顏，君子驚悚……」反躬自省者讀之， 可以知運命； 心繫天下者讀之， 可以成大局； 淡然處之者讀之， 可以明清濁； 遊戲人間者讀之， 可以正進退。
其實，從《榮枯鑒》中可以發現，小人不是「惹不起」、不是「躲不掉」，小人並非不可戰勝，小人的罩門是有跡可循、可以破解的，只有瞭解小人，才可以戰勝小人；洞悉其奸，才能防範在先，這是《榮枯鑒》給我們的啟發。
揚君子，而君子命蹇；斥小人，而小人逍遙……何也？《榮枯鑒》提供給人們的只是審視小人的一個獨特的視角，至於如何定義小人、如何防範小人、並最終戰勝小人則見仁見智。捨棄名譽，愛惜生命

《仕经(做官学)》讲述在中国古代社会，除了战乱和改朝换代这样大的社会动荡外，表面上风平浪静，但实际上波谲云诡、变动迭出的就要数官场了。做官的人一方面要努力实现自己的政治抱负，即所谓建功立业，拜将入相，另一方面更要尽量保全自身，以固荣宠，其中自有诸多的学问和策略。

古代官场奇人关于为官之心得，封建官场中进则建功立业，退则保全自身的权谋典籍。儒家的智慧是极为深刻的。它是一种非智谋的大智谋，其运谋的方法不是谋智，不是像法家或兵家那样直接以智慧迫使对方服从；而是谋圣，即从征服人心着手，让人们自觉自愿地为王道理想献身。
在中国古代社会，除了战乱和改朝换代这样大的社会动荡外，表面上风平浪静，但实际上波谲云诡、变动迭出的就要数官场了。做官的人一方面要努力实现自己的政治抱负，即所谓建功立业，拜将入相，另一方面更要尽量保全自身，以固荣宠，其中自有诸多的学问和策略。但这些，正史中很少去正面描述，只是偶尔留下一些蛛丝马迹，而在个人著述中，更是很少有人提及。大约是因为这里面权谋的因素太多，不好明以示人吧。但尽管这样，仍然有人写下一些自己对为官之道的体会，当然不会将其公之于世，只是供自己把玩，或传给子孙作为参考。
作者署名为长乐老的《仕道》或许就是这样的一篇著述。长乐老是五代人冯道的号，经有关学者的初步研究与考证，《仕道》很有可能是冯道写下的。而从文中的口气看，作者有过官场的经验，甚至可以说是深谙为官之道的。倘若真是冯道所著，那倒真的可以说是恰如其分了。因为冯道是一位在官场中久经历练的人物，为官时间长，历任朝代多，任官职务高，可以说是前无古人、后无来者的。他是最有资格，也是颇有可能写下这样的文字的人。

本书详细叙述了冯道（882~954）充满争议的一生。一方面，冯道生逢唐末五代乱世，历仕五朝（后唐、后晋、辽、后汉、后周）、八姓（后唐庄宗、明宗、末帝各一姓，后晋石氏，辽耶律氏，后汉刘氏，后周太祖、世宗各一姓）、十一位天子，官居高位三十年，出任宰相二十余年；另一方面，冯道匡谏君主，关怀民生，发展文化事业，在乱世之中努力维持秩序。这其中有无奈妥协，也有争取与坚守，冯道如同一面镜子，照见乱世中的理想与人生。

Bold and beautiful, this volume presents hundreds of film stills from the Pixar archives in a glorious spectrum of color. Starting with bright white images and seamlessly flowing through the colors of the rainbow, it becomes crystal clear how each frame tells a story. Bound into a gorgeous volume, The Color of Pixar encapsulates everything there is to love about the studio: the attention to detail, the playful characters, and the sheer scope of their work in over 20 years of iconic feature films.

Copyright ©2017 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.

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他扔掉了世俗意义上的幸福，一生沉浸于挚爱的事业。生活对他而言就像电影一般，有鲜活的苦涩，也有极致的梦幻。
他的匆匆离去给世界动画产业留下无尽遗憾，但他未竟的千年之梦仍在延续。
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今敏辞世以后，我们就觉得日本动画的未来没有了。——电影杂志《CUT》

Learn how to run successful big data projects, how to resource your teams, and how the teams should work with each other to be cost effective. This book introduces the three teams necessary for successful projects, and what each team does. Most organizations fail with big data projects and the failure is almost always blamed on the technologies used. To be successful, organizations need to focus on both technology and management. Making use of data is a team sport. It takes different kinds of people with different skill sets all working together to get things done. In all but the smallest projects, people should be organized into multiple teams to reduce project failure and underperformance. This book focuses on management. A few years ago, there was little to nothing written or talked about on the management of big data projects or teams. Data Teams shows why management failures are at the root of so many project failures and how to proactively prevent such failures with your project.
What You Will Learn Discover the three teams that you will need to be successful with big dataUnderstand what a data scientist is and what a data science team doesUnderstand what a data engineer is and what a data engineering team doesUnderstand what an operations engineer is and what an operations team doesKnow how the teams and titles differ and why you need all three teamsRecognize the role that the business plays in working with data teams and how the rest of the organization contributes to successful data projects
Who This Book Is ForManagement, at all levels, including those who possess some technical ability and are about to embark on a big data project or have already started a big data project. It will be especially helpful for those who have projects whichmay be stuck and they do not know why, or who attended a conference or read about big data and are beginning their due diligence on what it will take to put a project in place. This book is also pertinent for leads or technical architects who are: on a team tasked by the business to figure out what it will take to start a project, in a project that is stuck, or need to determine whether there are non-technical problems affecting their project.

资深科学记者四年深度访谈，重塑我们与死亡的关系。
当“治愈已然无法企及，“照护”便会上升为核心。死亡不再是一个需要我们仓皇抵抗的失败，而是一个可以被管理、被尊重、并充满人性尊严的“生命阶段”，是宏大生命乐章中一个虽显沉静，却不可或缺的最终和弦。
——果壳网主笔 游识猷
资深科学记者四年深度访谈，
中国人自己的死亡鉴证实录。
直面我们的恐惧，
在告别中，学会为爱做出选择，
在失去里，找回好好生活的动力。
科学作家雪竹历时四年，进行中国人死亡和临终的田野调查，她采访了数十位临终病患及家属、医护、临终关怀志愿者、生前预嘱推广协会、死亡咖啡馆 等相关人士，收集了与我们息息相关的、当代中国人面临死亡时的人生故事、心态、处境和不同选择，并参考大量医学和生死学一线调研资料，写就了这部适合中国人阅读的死亡教育手记。通过这些第一手的访谈和数据，每位读者都能读出与自己长辈或者亲朋相像的故事。
当代中国人的死亡教育刻不容缓，包含着探索死亡对人精神的冲击，如何好好生活，好好死亡，是前代很少思考的人生大问题。特别是年轻一代所需要的死亡教育作品并不是高高在上的理论，而是充满理解和感同身受。当网络上的公共生活成为我们的主流生活，我们在网络上共享死亡带来的冲击和悲伤，也共同面对死亡教育的缺失，这本书告诉我们，死亡不是恐惧的起点，而是教会我们爱和理解生命，在哀伤之外，我们有更多选择。

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, lessons on harnessing the power of money to live a happier life

Most of us don’t know how to spend money. We chase things that impress others but leave us cold. Or we save endlessly, afraid to spend on what would actually make life better. We confuse admiration with envy, comfort with excess, and utility with status.

The Art of Spending Money doesn't provide budgets, hacks, or one-size-fits-all solutions. It gives you understanding of how your relationship with money shapes your decisions—and how to reshape it so money works for you.

Morgan Housel’s work has helped millions rethink how they earn, save, and invest. Now he turns his attention to the other side of the equation: how to spend. With insight and warmth, he shows why the most valuable return on investment is peace of mind, why expectations matter more than income, and why doing well with money has less to do with spreadsheets and more to do with self-awareness.

This book isn’t about getting rich. It’s about getting the most out of what you already have—and learning to want what’s worth wanting.

The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling - it is as much a matter of writing as it is of drawing. In this book, noted cartoonist and illustrator Ivan Brunetti presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through wittily written passages on cartooning terminology, techniques, tools, and theory. Supplemented by Brunetti's own drawings, prepared specially for this book, these lessons move the reader from spontaneous drawings to single-panel strips and complicated multipage stories. Through simple, creative exercises and assignments, Brunetti offers an unintimidating approach to a complex art form. He looks at the rhythms of storytelling, the challenges of character design, and the formal elements of comics while composing pages in his own iconic style and experimenting with a variety of tools, media, and approaches. By following the author's sophisticated and engaging perspective on the art of cartooning, aspiring cartoonists of all ages will hone their craft, create their personal style, and discover their own visual language.

如果世界上有一种叫作阅读家的职业，不会再有人比毛姆更加适合。
作家热爱读书，这似乎是自然的事，但像毛姆一样，按图索骥，从作家的作品问解到作家的生平和性格，再由他们的生平和性格回转身，关照作家的作品，并以此写成一本精彩绝伦的随笔集，也是文学史上并不多见的妙事。
这是一本巨匠的八卦之书，也是毛姆对于阅读和哲学的洞见之书。文学巨匠的辛辣秘密与有趣人性，简·奥斯汀善良的“刻薄”，司汤达内心的自卑，福楼拜童年的沙滩初恋，列夫·托尔斯泰一生的迷惑与忏悔，陀思妥耶夫斯基的背叛……

This lyrical graphic novel paints a captivating portrait of two women in search of themselves.

Feeling adrift after her daughter leaves the nest, Rita makes the audacious move to model nude for a live drawing class. There, she meets Esther, an artist who sees beyond the superficial and captures people’s true essences in her drawings. The two connect as kindred spirits, and their unexpected, yet endearing relationship teaches them to accept their eccentricities and feel comfortable in their own skin.

Skin is the striking debut graphic novel by writer Mieke Versyp and illustrator Sabien Clement. In this seamless collaboration, poetic turns of phrase pair with impressionistic watercolors, creating a tangible intimacy between words and imagery. Keen observation and dynamic artistry combine to tell a tender story of the human condition, as playful and devastating as life itself.

For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title:
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”
An essential volume for generations of writers young and old, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.

《源泉》的主人公洛克是一个诚实而坚强的建筑师，他志在启蒙社会，却在大学毕业前夕被学校开除，他的设计风格被社会视为异端，一度沦落到去采石厂当小工。他深爱的女人也处处和他作对，并与他的夙敌结了婚。最后，他答应无偿为政府设计经济实用房，但他的设计被政府主管部门任意修改，万般无奈之下，他抗起炸药包就把建到一半的楼炸回了砖头瓦砾。在法庭上，他也同样孤军奋战，为自己作为天才的原创行为（911份子大概还没出生呢）自辩：“创造是各己私事，是天赋权利，维护创造也是同等天赋个人的权利。”那个时候著作权、知识产权等概念还未曾为人们所认同。结果罗克被认定为“狂人”，并因此而无罪释放。

《君主论》是意大利政治家、思想家尼可罗·马基亚维利的代表作，是一本毁誉参半的奇书，一直被奉为欧洲历代君主的案头之书，政治家的最高指南，统治阶级巩固其统治的治国原则，人类有史以来对政治斗争技巧最独到最精辟的解剖。自1532年开始印行，迄今470多年，从西方到东方，在政界、宗教界、学术等领域引起巨大的反响，被西方评论界列为和《圣经》、《资本论》等相提并论的影响人类历史的十部著作之一。

约3800年前，《汉谟拉比法典》就向我们传达出一条人类进化的法则——在人与人的交往中建立对称关系，以防止有人转嫁隐藏的“尾部风险”。古往今来，人类的任何一条法律、任何一项教谕，也都是基于“对称性”原则的，但实际上，非对称风险也一直存在于人类历史之中。塔勒布提出，人们在面对非对称风险和外部压力时，只有践行“风险共担”的原则，才能做出正确的决策，以应对现实世界中的不确定性。
本书共包含四个主题：不确定性以及知识的可靠性；人类事务的对称性原则，包括公平、正义、责任感、相互性；交易中的信息共享；复杂系统中以及在现实世界中的理性。书中的内容可谓是包罗万象：主观动机分析、二手车买卖、道德伦理、契约理论、学术界以及现实世界的学习、康德法则、政府权力、风险科学、知识分子与现实世界的互动、政府责任、社会正义、期权理论、基本人权、神学……

不确定性是真实世界的本质属性之一。塔勒布的《黑天鹅》《反脆弱》等系列作品从哲学角度对不确定性进行了探讨。本书从数学和统计学出发，对这一问题进行了更深入的分析，在阐释肥尾效应理论的基础上，提出了尾部风险管理的具体策略，被称为塔勒布的“量化开篇之作”。
作者认为，社会科学和金融学研究使用大量的统计工具，但对底层分布（尤其是肥尾分布）的理解略显单薄。不牢靠的基石带来了大量无效研究，很多“新闻式”的小样本结论值得进一步推敲。在本书中，作者运用尽可能精炼的数学语言，以更清晰的方式梳理了肥尾分布的框架。对于具备一定数学或统计学基础的读者来说，这种直击本质的表述方式阅读起来更令人酣畅淋漓。
面对风云诡谲的金融市场，本书为投资者点出了破局之道：小概率极端事件不可预测，理解肥尾效应、管理尾部风险是必然选择。