不要把时间浪费在寻找隐藏着的奥秘上,或许原来本没有什么奥秘。——弗兰茨·卡夫卡欧洲首富诞生在矿工聚居区卡尔·阿尔布雷希特和特奥·阿尔布雷希特兄弟是欧洲首富,是最有钱的非美国人。据2002年的《福布斯》估测,阿尔布雷希特家族的财产达到270亿美元。阿尔布雷希特兄弟出生在埃森绍内贝克的一个贫穷的矿工聚居区。二战时,他们沦为战俘,1946年被释放回家,开了一家面积只有100平方米的小店。如今,年过八旬的兄弟俩所经营的阿尔迪,已属全世界最气派、最成功的连锁店之一。世界范围内最大的零售连锁店是年销售额达2 000亿欧元的沃尔玛,它的销售额是阿尔迪的6倍,阿尔迪的年销售额仅为330亿欧元。然而,阿尔迪是世界上最大的批发商,它每年购买的单件商品的总价值就超过3 000万欧元;相比之下,沃尔玛只有150万欧元,仅为阿尔迪的二十分之一。阿尔迪的身价甚至达到400亿欧元,比福布斯估测的要多出50%。这相当...
The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewanby Ralph ConnorPREFACEIn Western Canada there is to be seen to-day that most fascinating of all human phenomena, the making of a nation. Out of breeds diverse in traditions, in ideals, in speech, and in manner of life, Saxon and Slav, Teuton, Celt and Gaul, one people is being made. The blood strains of great races will mingle in the blood of a race greater than the greatest of them all.It would be our wisdom to grip these peoples to us with living hooks o
were clever and wise, but the third did not speak much, and wassimple, and was called the simpleton. When the king had become oldand weak, and was thinking of his end, he did not know which of hissons should inherit the kingdom after him. Then he said to them, goforth, and he who brings me the most beautiful carpet shall be kingafter my death.And that there should be no dispute amongst them, he took themoutside his castle, blew three feathers in the air, and said, youshall go as they fly. On
AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNERBayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had beenlong since we had seen such multitudes of excited and strugglingpeople. It took a good half-hour to pack them and pair them intothe trainand it was the longest train we have yet seen inEurope. Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience acouple of times a day for about two weeks. It gives one an...
理查德·福尔克 撰 大卫·雷·格里芬撰写了一部异乎寻常的著作。即使人们只以30%的宽容态度细心阅读它,它也几乎肯定能够改变我们理解方式,即改变我们理解有关处于政府最高发展阶段之上的美国立宪制民主的各种著述的方式。这样看来,这是一部令人不安的著作,因为它描述了一种深刻的、对于这个世界历史上最强有力的主权国家来说的政治合法性危机——此外,它 《新珍珠港》之所以如此与众不同的原因在于,它根据最充分的学术超然精神,并通过对最高尚的学者美德——这是一种意愿,即无论证据和原因之路把研究者引向何方,都乐于使自己的探究遵循这种道路——的、具有典范性的展示,探讨了一个最敏感、最富有争议的领域:与9.11悲剧相关的政府官员行为所具有的广阔场景。在这里,它使我们看到的是一些具有爆炸性的目标;在这里,作者提出了对于我们在政府的一些部门的领导权之健全性和世界观的极度怀疑——这些部门对这个国...
AGNES GREYAGNES GREYBy Anne Bronte1- Page 2-AGNES GREYCHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGEALL true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasuremay be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut....
The Rivermanby Stewart Edward WhiteIThe time was the year 1872, and the place a bend in the river abovea long pond terminating in a dam. Beyond this dam, and on a flatlower than it, stood a two-story mill structure. Save for a small,stump-dotted clearing, and the road that led from it, all else wasforest. Here in the bottom-lands, following the course of thestream, the hardwoods grew dense, their uppermost branches just...
The Paths of Inland Commerce, A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and WaterwayBy Archer B. HulbertPREFACEIf the great American novel is ever written, I hazard the guess that its plot will be woven around the theme of American transportation, for that has been the vital factor in the national development of the United States. Every problem in the building of the Republic has been, in the last analysis, a problem in transportation. The author of such a novel will find a rich fund of material in the perpe
Treatises on Friendship and Old Ageby Marcus Tullius CiceroTranslated by E S ShuckburghINTRODUCTORY NOTEMARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators andthe chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan.3,106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belongedto the class of the "Knights," moved to Rome when Cicero was achild; and the future statesman received an elaborate education inrhetoric, law, and philosophy, studying and practising under some...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V3BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARKCONTENTS:CHAPTER XIII. to CHAPTER XXII.CHAPTER XIII.The First Consul left Boulogne to return to Paris, in order to be presentat the marriage of one of his sisters. Prince Camille Borghese,descendant of the noblest family of Rome, had already arrived at Paristomarry Madame Pauline Bonaparte, widow of General Leclerc, who haddied of yellow fever in San Domingo. I recollect having seen
Child of Stormby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONDear Mr. Stuart,For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as AssistantSecretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have beenintimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one ofthe few living men who have made a deep and scientific study of theirlanguage, their customs and their history. So I confess that I was themore pleased after you were so good as to read this talethe second...