作者:罗杰·洛文斯坦引言在投资业的发展史上,沃伦。巴菲特可谓独占鳌头。他从零开始,仅仅从事股票和企业投资,积聚起巨额财富,成为 20世纪世界大富豪之冠。在40年的时间里(足以消除偶然因素的影响),巴菲特在股票市场的业绩非凡,获取了惊人的赢利,未曾遭遇过大的风险,也没有出现过亏损年度,这真是一个奇迹!在市场专家、华尔街经纪人及旁观者们看来简直是一件不可思议的事。通过连续、高质量的滚动,巴菲特获得了97亿美元的收益净值。无论股市行情牛气冲天抑或疲软低迷,无论经济繁荣与否——巴菲特在市场上的表现总是很好——从艾森豪威尔时代到比尔。克林顿执政,从 50年代到90年代,从便鞋、越南战争到债券、信息时代。在战后美国,主要股票的年均收益率在10%左右,巴菲特却达到了28.6%的水平。...
The Malay Archipelagoby Alfred Russell WallaceVOLUME IICHAPTER XXITHE MOLUCCASTERNATE.ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which shirt the west coast of the large and almost unknown n island of Gilolo. The largest and most perfectly conical mountain is Tidore, which is over four thousand Feet highTernate being very nearly the same height, but with a more rounded and irregular summit. The town of Ternate is conceal
Beacon Lights of HistoryVolume III Part 2by John LordVolume III.Part IIRenaissance and Reformation.CONTENTS.DANTE.RISE OF MODERN POETRY.The antiquity of PoetryThe greatness of PoetsTheir influence on CivilizationThe true poet one of the rarest of menThe pre-eminence of Homer, Dante, Shakspeare, and GoetheCharacteristics of DanteHis precocityHis moral wisdom and great attainments...
First Across the Continentby Noah BrooksThe Story ofThe Exploring Expedition of Lewisand Clark in 1804-5-6Chapter IA Great Transaction in LandThe people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had sold to us the vast tract of land known as the country of Louisiana. The details of this purchase were arranged in Paris (on the part of the United States) by Robert R. Livingston and Jam
Allan Quatermainby H. Rider HaggardI inscribe this book of adventure to my son ARTHUR JOHN RIDERHAGGARD in the hope that in days to come he, and many otherboys whom I shall never know, may, in the acts and thoughts ofAllan Quatermain and his companions, as herein recorded,find something to help him and them to reach to what, with SirHenry Curtis, I hold to be the highest rank whereto we canattain the state and dignity of English gentlemen....
THE ODYSSEYby Homertranslated by Samuel ButlerBOOK I.TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wideafter he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit,and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he wasacquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to savehis own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he...
《致命漩涡》作者:王晓方内容简介:沈阳的牟马大案在全国引起了巨大震动,这部作品以此为线索,披露了许多牟马大案当事人鲜为人知的内幕,作者作为知情人,笔锋犀利,直指贪官污吏的命脉,作品读起来令人触目惊心。作者介绍:文章试读:人性是顽强的,我坚信这一点,因为所有的神都是人造的,生命本身就是神灵。人们需要神就像需要真理一样,不过,现实中如果真理一分钟不与金钱结合,真理就会陷入流言的重围。因此,理想有时也是苟且的理由,面对牺牲,大多数人会一哄而散。不要嘲笑他们,说来说去生命不是神,纵使堕落到底,也是因为起飞的欲望。我们会发现,有一天,我们的文明不底细是升华,还是浮华,都将成为过去。对于小人物来说,生活窘迫如故,梦里面永远也摆脱不了痛。没前人给他们立言,他们也没有一篇《出师表》可传世,正义就是无休止地捍卫他们的小利,不要企盼回报,否则就成了无耻的交易。小人物是历史,但天不会...
公子光决心要在这个闷热的黄昏把胞兄吴王僚杀掉,这个阴谋,整整筹划了三年。临到刺杀计划要实施了,公子光却心惊肉跳地忐忑起来。他开始怀疑那事先与伍子胥商量了上百遍的周密计划不够周密,兀自在考虑万一刺杀失败,该从哪儿逃走?逃到哪儿更妥帖?伍予胥不管怎么劝说“请公子放心”,怎么说“万无一失”,都不行。他还是急得一头一身的汗,在准备接待吴王的厅堂里毫无目的地转来转去,像无头的苍蝇。一会儿,到厨房去看看,看看准备引诱王僚受死的最后的晚宴准备得怎样;一会儿,又钻到地道里去看看武士们是否已经埋伏停当,冲杀出来是否会迅速。武士们都是反复筛选的亡命徒,都是没结婚的“黄瓜郎”,精壮汉子,脸上都涂了炭。见公子光钻进地道,一张张黑脸伸过来,全都劝公子宽心,只要那王僚到公子府上来,一定叫王僚竖着进来,横着出去的,决不会给王僚留一个全尸。说得公子光激动得不住地点头。从地道里退出来,公子光身上...
The Chouansby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Monsieur Theodore Dablin, Merchant.To my first friend, my first work.De Balzac.THE CHOUANSIAN AMBUSCADEEarly in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way
马家军调查 作者:赵瑜 第一章 马家军探营 只身赴东北,开始了五十天的探秘。不认识任何人,怎样进入风源核心?马家军当年是怎样叫响的?马俊仁亲自开车去买煤。曲云霞留在基地,是因为父母亲也在基地搞勤杂。张娟一身兼多职。这里的事情像公事,又像私事。作家在基地住下来。 是啊,是谁重创了马家军呢? 过了大年初一又过了初五,我就动了去东北的念头。遥想九三年中国田径马家军红火的时候,虽然也振奋欢欣,却到底没有引起我去深入研讨的热忱。那时我正在赶制电视纪实系列《内陆九三》,见到报上说马俊仁率领的一批东北女将,跑得很顽强,非常出色,打败了欧美国家的许多强手,震动了国际体坛;不久又在北京七届全运会上大破世界纪录,引得街谈巷议,全球瞩目。突出的两个尖子,一个叫王军霞,一个叫曲云霞,印象中都是农家姑娘,长相挺平实,跑开后凶狠异常。有权威说法是黄种人在田径项目特别是径赛上干不过欧美...
109 ADHISTORIESby P. Cornelius Tacitustranslated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson BrodribbBOOK I, January - March, A.D. 69I BEGIN my work with the time when Servius Galba was consul forthe second time with Titus Vinius for his colleague. Of the formerperiod, the 820 years dating from the founding of the city, many...
序曲(1)独脚一个,撒手倒卧,谁为扶持,自家稳坐。辟辟啪啪,打上这最后一行字,文字已经把电脑的屏幕塞得满满的,再也没有任何缝隙。键盘敲打的声音突然停止,四周重新陷入一片寂静中。窗外月光如水,窗内我的目光温柔。当这最后一行字打完之后,一段生活就从我的记忆里被移植到了电脑之中,这是属于我个人的博客日志,把它全部写完后,我突然有种被抽空了的感觉。没什么可以做的了?我过去的生活,就如同一块旧抹布,擦拭完了该擦拭的,现在,是该仍掉的时候了。这是一个百无聊赖的夜晚。在这个时候,好友列表里所有的人都在隐身状态,他们也许在,也许不在,也许如我一样,在写下了大量的文字以后,在发现自己的身体有种被抽空的感觉之后,开始期待着一个人的出现。期待着他(她)的头像在电脑屏幕上闪动。在这种盲目的期待中,我想起了一个哲人的话,生命正在虚掷。...
听雷:我在091气象所工作的那段岁月最新卷 第1节球已经存在46亿年了,人类有文字记载的历史只有几千年。而我,只活了70年,却可以称自己是老同志了,呵呵。今天是公元2008年9月1日,很值得纪念的日子,今天我可以正式退休了。扯的有点远了。简单介绍下我自己吧,本人姓刘,名思远,我38年9月1日生人,53年参加工作,一直到现在退休。呵呵又说远了,也许您觉得的我是个神经不太好的老头,来这里给大家开忆苦思甜会了。呵呵,我只是来给大家讲故事的。耐心看才是好同志。还是说点大家感兴趣的事吧,很少有闲,这一退了还真不知道该从哪里说起,先说说我的工作单位吧,我工作的单位全称呢,叫做“中国第091气象研究所”当然,这个只是对外的称呼,而我们内部的称呼则只有代号091所,怎么样,很神秘吧?...
Nada the Lilyby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONSompseu:For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honouredby every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas,I greet you!Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men andmatters of which you know the most of any who still look upon thelight; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is,I offer it to you.If you knew not Chaka, you and he have seen the same suns shine, you...