眾多諾貝爾經濟學獎得主同聲讚譽、唯一「能賺夠錢、提早退休」的投資法繼哈利．馬可維茲和約翰．柏格之後的第二次「分散投資」革命眾人最害怕的事情是什麼呢？是「錢花完，人還沒死」，缺錢通常是人們最常見的困境，大家都想要錢，但錢又好像沒那麼好賺，怎麼想好像都沒辦法賺夠錢？我們該怎麼辦呢？或許大家會說：靠投資！但怎麼投資呢？好像也沒錢投資？你的心聲，經濟學家都聽到了，他們致力一生都想為大家找到一種「風險變小，報酬提升」的投資法。兩位作者是耶魯大學教授，他們以諾貝爾經濟學獎得主保羅‧薩繆森的投資方法出發，提出一套不增加風險，卻可讓報酬提升50%以上的投資分配法，這套方法強調「時間的多樣化」，就是透過時間的長度來降低風險，並運用槓桿，取得比傳統方法高出50%以上的獲利。所以……...

This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

Just a couple hours into another fitful sleep, Eve started to perspire again; her body twitched with the tormenting sound of the daunting voice, reaching for her from deep in her subconscious. "Why," it asked, "why," as Eve's nightmare took on a new dimension for the first time.From out of the cold fog that bound her very spirit, a pair of eyes accompanied the voice. With eyelids closed they seemed to emerge from the same blackness that spawned the haunting question. Larger they lo...

Wonderful comedy drama adapted from the beloved novels featuring an all-star castWelcome to Thrush Green, a small and peaceful village in the Cotswolds, where everything and nothing happens. This wonderful, gentle comedy features and all-star cast including Adam Godley (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Anna Massey (Rebecca), Geoffrey Whitehead (Poirot) and Trevor Peacock

50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the Planet? Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, Ian Tatte...

BBC dramatisations of two classic detective novels featuring Inspector Gabriel Hanaud of the Paris SûretéThe brilliant creation of British author A.E.W. Mason, Inspector Hanaud has been hailed as ‘the first major fiction police detective of the Twentieth Century’, and was one of the inspirations for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. In these engaging whodunits, France’s cleverest investigator is tasked with proving the innocence of two young women,...

A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZEWhy do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots?Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existe...

This is story number three in a trilogy within the Masters of Pleasure series. It was previously published by Cobblestone Press as part of the Just for Your Pleasure trilogy. It's been re-edited and now told from a different prospective.Lord William Langtry, and his wife, Gillian have a dilemma. Lord Langtry's younger brother is about to be married and will without a doubt produce an heir that could put William and Gillian's future in jeopardy.It's not that they don't want a ...

In the latest installment of the Ava Lee novels, Ava becomes embroiled in a violent war between feuding gangs vying for control of the Wanchai territory in Hong Kong.Ava is in Shanghai visiting her ailing friend, the Mountain Master Xu, when a triad war breaks out in Hong Kong. Sammy Wing, an old enemy of Ava’s who has twice tried to kill her, has enlisted the aid of his nephew Carter — the new Mountain Master of Sha Tin — to reclaim control of his old territory, W...

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A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling and definitive translation, new to Penguin Classics.Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded. However, the book containing his philosphical ideas has survived centuries of neglect and is today recognised as a fundamental work of ancient Chinese philosophy. The book contains sections explaining the ten key doctrines of Mohism; lively dialogues between Master Mo and his...

It would be rare these days to find a film that did not in some way depend on the magic of special and visual effects - from the raging computer-generated dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, to the fantasical worlds of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and the photoreal tiger and ocean in Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Through interviews with 16 of the leading FX pioneers from around the world, author Ian Failes explores the making of some of the most memorable film sequences ever produc...