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類別:商業 理財

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
錢本與本錢

- by Suze Orman

年輕的一代(Y世代)信用卡債台高築幾乎快成為全球化的現象,父母輩以儲蓄來養家、置產及培育兒女,對Y世代而言已是不可能的任務。雖然無財可理,Y世代卻是最需要理財觀念的族群。暢銷書作家Suze Orman善於消除讀者面對"理財"一事的恐懼,無論是置產、預備退休金或是準備孩子的教育基金,本書將指導讀者設定階段性目標,再一一達成。信用破產的Y世代,與其憂心忡忡的父母,最需要閱讀的理財指南
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Summary
A financial guide aimed squarely at "Generation Debt'-and their anxious parents-from the country's most trusted and dynamic source on money matters

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. They're called "Generation Debt" and "Generation Broke" by the media-people in their twenties and thirties who graduate from college with a mountain of student loan debt and are stuck with one of the weakest job markets in recent history. The goals of their parents' generation-buy a house, support a family, send kids to college, retire in style-seem absurdly, depressingly out of reach. They live off their credit cards, may or may not have health insurance, and come up so far short at the end of the month that the idea of saving money is a joke. This generation has it tough, without a doubt, but they're also painfully aware of the urgent need to take matters into their own hands.

The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that young people face today, and it offers a set of real, not impossible, solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead. Concisely, pragmatically, and without a whiff of condescension,

Suze Orman tells her young, fabulous & broke readers precisely what actions to take and why. Throughout these pages, icons direct readers to a special YF&B domain on Suze's website that offers more specialized information, forms, and interactive tools that further customize the information in the book. Her advice at times bucks conventional wisdom (Did she just say use your credit card?) and may even seem counterintuitive (Pay into a retirement fund even though your credit card debt is killing you?), but it's her honesty, understanding, and uncanny ability to anticipate the needs of her readers that have made her the most trusted financial expert of the day.

Over the course of ten chapters that can be consulted methodically, step by step, or on a strictly need-to-know basis, Suze takes readers past broke to a secure place where they'll never have to worry about revisiting broke again. And she begins the journey with a bit of overwhelmingly good news (yes, there really is good news): Young people have the greatest asset of all on their side-time.

作者 About the Author
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. An Emmy-award winner, Orman is the author of four consecutive New York TimesR bestsellers, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, The Courage to Be Rich, The Road to Wealth, and The Laws of Money, the Lessons of Life. The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that young people face today, and it offers a set of real, not impossible, solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead.

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* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31 in Books
* 紐約時報排行榜第四名

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類別:心理學 立志

Coping with Social Anxiety:
The Definitive Guide to Effective Treatment Options

如何面對社會焦慮症

- Edited Eric Hollander, M.D., and Nicholas Bakalar


在美國有五千三百萬人為 各種形式的社會焦慮症所苦,其中包括極度害羞,莫名的恐懼感,憂鬱等等。不像一般害羞的人,有社會焦慮症的人往往害怕與人群接觸,在公眾場合往往窘迫不安;在身體健康方面,可能出現流汗,顫抖,發聲怯懦,心跳加速,氣喘等身體上的徵兆。本書由兩位相關領域的權威人士,分別從心理治療和社會觀察的角度探討現這社會現象...


Summary
本書分成兩大部分:社會觀察以及臨床治療,探討社會焦慮症。引導讀者先從一般社會觀察的角度,瞭解社會焦慮症和一般害羞有何不同,身體或心態上有哪些徵兆,社會焦慮症只是純粹的疾病嗎?社會焦慮症的人其童年或青少年時期可能有哪些成長經驗,父母老師如何適時引導? 本書第二部分則提教導讀者如何測驗自己是否有社會焦慮的徵兆,如何初步自我練習,如何找到合適的心理醫生,有哪些臨床治療的藥物,對於社會焦慮症和憂鬱症的最新研究報告。本書適合一般讀者及專業人士閱讀。

作者 About the Author
Maureen Empfield, M.D., is Director of Psychiatry at Northern Westchester Hospital Center in Mt. Kisco, New York and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author or co-author of more than a dozen book chapters and articles for professional journals.

Nicholas Bakalar is a New York-based writer and editor of eleven books, including " Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management".

* 本書為2005 年4月新書,尚未收到書評。

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類別:青少年小說

ANGEL secrets, suspicions and sun-kissed beaches
安琪系列
- 安琪的海邊假期
- by Cherry Whytock

波蒂和艾非結為摯友後,艾非將義大利的別墅借給她兩星期。安琪也可以帶著她的姊妹淘一起去度假。但是這棟天堂般的華廈並非美妙如仙境。安琪正在療養一顆破碎的心,她的母親舉止怪異,她暗暗覺得麻煩隨時會爆發...

Summary
ANGEL secrets, suspicions and sun-kissed beaches: My flabber has never been so gusted! My gob is beyond smacked! THE VILLA IS TO DIE FOR! We've driven for about an hour with Eduardo, who is as cool as the air conditioning and here we are at the end of a long, tree-lined drive in front of the gates of paradise...

作者 About the Author
Cherry is married with two grown-up daughters. She has lived in Kent for the past twenty-three years and now lives in Tunbridge Wells.
Cherry studied art and textile design and has exhibited in London and locally. She enjoys paintings, especially big watercolours.

Cherry has always been connected with the visual arts and writing is a new direction which she finds tremendously exciting, though it is in her blood as her mother wrote children’s books before the Second World War. She is currently working on the fourth book in the Angel series

Angel – Loving, Loathing and Luscious Lunches out in October 2004. Piccadilly have published the first three volumes in the series: Angel – Disasters, Diets and D-cups, Angel – Haggis Horrors and Heavenly Bodies and Angel – Secrets, Suspicions and Sun-Kissed Beaches.

*Language rights in ANGEL series have been sold in:
- Brazil
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- USA

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類別:青少年小說

ANGEL loving, loathing, secrets, suspicions and sun-kissed beaches
安琪系列
- 安琪的餐會

Paperback 176 pages (September 24, 2004)
Publisher: Piccadilly Press

- by Cherry Whytock

可憐的安琪,她母親和絲嘉麗的媽媽要合辦一場慈善活動,雖然剪了新髮型、剛從義大利做完日光浴回來,安琪卻相信絲嘉麗一定會讓她感到自慚形穢。正當她被絲嘉麗的殘酷玩笑氣壞之時,一位英俊男士挽救了她的自尊,這可怕的慈善活動竟然還有意外收穫,因為安琪要和奧力佛的本尊見面
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ANGEL loving, loathing, secrets, suspicions and sun-kissed beaches: Why would I panic when I'm looking this good? What could Scarlett possibly do that could spoil the way I feel? She's never even had a proper boyfriend - not like I have. Sydney was definitely MY BOYFRIEND for a while. And she's probably never had the opportunity to turn someone down - like when I turned George down...


作者
About the Author
Cherry is married with two grown-up daughters. She has lived in Kent for the past twenty-three years and now lives in Tunbridge Wells.
Cherry studied art and textile design and has exhibited in London and locally. She enjoys paintings, especially big watercolours.

Cherry has always been connected with the visual arts and writing is a new direction which she finds tremendously exciting, though it is in her blood as her mother wrote children’s books before the Second World War. She is currently working on the fourth book in the Angel series

Angel – Loving, Loathing and Luscious Lunches out in October 2004. Piccadilly have published the first three volumes in the series: Angel – Disasters, Diets and D-cups, Angel – Haggis Horrors and Heavenly Bodies and Angel – Secrets, Suspicions and Sun-Kissed Beaches.

*Language rights in ANGEL series have been sold in:
- Brazil
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- USA

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類別:非小說 勵志 商業管理 成就動機

SUCCESS - Advice for achieving your goals from remarkably accomplished people
成功
摘星人開給你的秘方

- Edited by J. Pincott


精裝 256頁 較小開本 19 x 12.5 cm

希拉瑞, 克林頓, 比爾 蓋茲, 瑪丹娜, 這些各行各業的傑出人士是如何達到人生的巔峰? 有什麼是可以讓我們學習借鏡的?“成功” 這本書收集了400 位在商業, 政治, 文學, 藝術, 娛樂界等不同領域, 各領風騷人士的深思洞見. 例如在 ”如何開始” 這一章中, 收錄了J. K. 羅琳談到 “哈利 玻特” 的故事是如何成型的, 以及費里尼是如何一次又一次執導出偉大的藝術影片; “熱情執卓的精神” 在蘋果電腦的 Steve Jobs 和 Tiger Woods 的成功生涯中扮演了何其重要的角色; Amazon.com 的Jeff Bezos 如何處理壓力問題; 畢卡索談目標設定 等等. 最重要的是, “成功的密訣”不是巫術 是任何人都可以學習的.本書中的傑出人士都有一個共通點, 即有熱情才會成功. 如果你還在往成功的路上努力, 推薦你讀這本書
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Summary
How did Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Jeffrey Bezos, David Sedaris, and Macy Gray get where they are today - and how can you get the same edge?

Success is a collection of insights from more than 400 remarkably successful people in all fields - including business, politics, entertainment, and the arts. Here are quotes and passages from J.K. Rowling and Federico Fellini on getting started, and Steve Jobs and Tiger Woods on passion. Here, too, are George Lucas and Bill Clinton on goals, Katie Couric and George Foreman on competition, and Edmund Hillary and Carly Fiorina on leadership.

The high achievers quoted here share one crucial belief: Success is possible as long as there's passion. If you know where you want to be but not how to get there, use Success as your guide.

作者 About the Author
Jena Pincott 是藍燈書屋的編輯 也是自由撰稿人

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類別:醫療保健

疾病的世界地圖

作者:濱田篤郎

疾病的衍生及傳播,都是和旅行、殖民、戰爭、貿易共生存,本書將旅行和疾病長達3千年的複雜關係,以簡短的歷史過程敘述,讓讀者輕鬆了解到疾病衍史。在中古世紀中,人類尚未有醫療體制,因此,若旅行者將要遠行時,都會將遺書寫好,玄奘取經時,每次到一座山都會劇烈頭痛、嘔吐,均為此而苦。因此,據說當時若頭痛劇烈,就稱那座山為"大頭痛山",些微頭痛的話,就稱為"小頭痛山",。其實,這些症狀是在標高兩千五百公尺以上的高地產生,即為"高山症"。羅馬帝國中期,因政治混亂,導至河川、海岸工程延誤,使得沼澤地帶驟增,讓長年存在國內中的瘧疾得以大肆虐,帝國從此不振。西元 1348 年因戰爭關係,鼠疫蔓延,迅速擴及整個歐洲,此疾病使患者,呼吸困難,整個皮膚變黑,隨即死亡,當時目擊這樣經過,便稱為"黑死病" 到十四世紀才停息。這次鼠疫大流行,促使瘟疫預防制度於威尼斯誕生,這套規定,凡自東方歸來即將入港,須在海上停留40天,義大利文的四十(quaranta) 後來為英文中的"quarantine " (檢疫)
二十世紀開始,由於交通工具發達,更加速了疾病的蔓延,愛滋、SARS等疾病便是搭上此便捷、迅速的旅行到世界各地。書中從二十世紀的 "旅遊醫學"角度教導讀者,如何在各地旅行中,得到旅行醫療知識...

作者 About the Author
濱田篤郎 1955年生於東京. 東京慈惠會醫科大學畢業. 作者是研究熱帶醫學的研究者,到美國克里夫蘭留學後,決定兼顧歷史深度的地理的廣度,探討旅行與疾病三千年來的發展與交互影響.

現任海外就業健康管理中心研修交流部長, 負責診療海外的日本人, 著有"國外旅行健康必備", "預防職場傳染病" 等書

類別:歷史 傳記 政治

BOBBY FISCHER GOES TO WAR

鮑比費雪上戰場 (或世紀棋賽)
- by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

1972年冷戰時期的美蘇世紀棋賽. 自1948年起, 蘇聯持續稱霸西洋棋王的頭銜,證明蘇聯制度的優越性, 直到美國人鮑比費雪的出現...當蘇聯棋王Spassky可能會輸時, KGB開始介入 季辛吉也加入.... 這是真實故事 是歷史, 傳記, 政治, 也是人類的悲劇...

作者 About the Author
David Edmonds and John Eidinow are both award-winning jounralist with the BBC. Their hugely acclaimed debut book, WITTGENSTEIN'S POKER, was published in over a dozen languages and shortlisted for the Guardian first Book Award.

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類別:非小說 自傳 大學 教育

Privilege :
Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
特權階級:
哈佛大學的精英階級

- by Ross Gregory Douthat

精裝, 2005年3月美國版出版

一本集回憶與社會批判於一身的著作, Privilege以引人入勝的描述, 評估世界馳名的哈佛大學. 作者對於哈佛大學的社會及學術教育做了洞察鮮明的報導...


Summary
In the spirit of Scott Turow's One L and David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise, a penetrating critique of elite universities and the culture of privilege they perpetuate, written by a recent Harvard alumnus.

Part memoir, part social critique批判, Privilege is an absorbing引人入勝 assessment評估 of one of the world's most celebrated universities: Harvard. In this sharp, insightful account導, Douthat evaluates給予評價 his social and academic education -- most notably, his frustrations with pre-established social hierarchies and the trumping of intellectual rigor by political correctness and personal ambition. The book addresses the spectacles of his time there, such as the embezzlement scandal at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and Professor Cornel West's defection to Princeton. He also chronicles the more commonplace but equally revealing experiences, including social climbing, sexual relations, and job hunting.

While the book's narrative centers on Harvard, its main arguments have a much broader concern: the state of the American college experience. Privilege is a pointed reflection on students, parents, and even administrators and professors who perceive specific schools merely as stepping-stones to high salaries and elite social networks rather than as institutions entrusted with academic excellence.

A book full of insightful perceptions and illuminating detail, Privilege is sure to spark endless debates inside and outside the ivied walls.

作者 About the Author
While at Harvard, Ross Gregory Douthat wrote a biweekly column for the Harvard Crimson and edited the Harvard Salient, a conservative journal. He now works at the Atlantic Monthly. His work has appeared in the National Review, Policy Review, the Hartford Courant, the Claremont Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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類別:生活情趣 幽默遊記 現代愛情

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS:
Because Mr. Right isn't always Mr. Right Here
環遊世界八十天: 尋找真愛
- by Jennifer Cox

這是真實故事. 一個女人環遊世界八十天:尋找真愛的實記. 作者Jennifer Cox是Lonely Planet 的行銷主管, 但她生活中並沒有任何情愛, 於是她遊遍歐洲, 中國, 美洲, 甚至澳洲去追尋夢中白馬王子心靈伙伴, 終於奇績出現...

作者 About the Author
Jennifer Cox is Marketing Director at Lonely Planet and a well-known travel expert. She have presented programmes for BBC TV and radio and have written for all the national newspapers and glossy magazines.

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類別:青少年讀物

Peter toiuna no ookami

一隻叫彼得的狼
作者:那須田淳

ISBN:4338144114 小峰書店 (2003-12-25出版

在狼的世界中沒有國境。也就是說,沒有阻隔人與人之間心靈交流的圍籬。要回到故鄉森林的狼與蹺家少年間的心靈故事

Summary
狼--彼得在返回故鄉波西米亞森林路上,在柏林街道上跟其他狼群失散了。離家的李歐、跟狼群失散的彼得以及逃亡中的男子馬克斯三人相遇了,為了幫助彼得回到狼群中展開的旅程…。探詢自由真諦的冒險小說。

作者 About the Author
那須田淳〔Jun NASUDA〕1959年生於靜岡縣濱松市。畢業於早稻田大學。1995年起移居德國柏林。
.獲獎記錄: 第51回產經兒童出版文化賞,  第20回坪田讓治文學賞 中學生∼

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