The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the historians of antiquity and of revolution, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and Isaac Deutscher; the philosophers of liberalism, Norbert...(展开全部)

This revised edition features new interviews - everyone from the vice president of global citizenship at Cirque du Soleil to a Best Buy clerk - and new neuroscience findings. It also shows how you can foster engagement through everyday conversations, staff meetings, and work design.

This revised edition features new interviews - everyone from the vice president of global citizenship at Cirque du Soleil to a Best Buy clerk - and new neuroscience findings. It also shows how you can foster engagement through everyday conversations, staff meetings, and work design.

在线阅读本书 'Diabolically clever. The reader is alternately impressed, beguiles, frightened, bewildered. A considerable achievement.' - Anita Brookner. During the First World War, five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the lin...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Diabolically clever. The reader is alternately impressed, beguiles, frightened, bewildered. A considerable achievement.' - Anita Brookner. During the First World War, five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the lin...(展开全部)

斯坦利•麦克里斯特尔： 美国陆军四星上将，美军驻阿富汗以及国际安全援助部队的指挥官，曾担任联合参谋部主任和联合特种作战司令部的指挥官。在他的领导下，联合特种作战司令部迅速崛起，成为一个可在全球许多国家开展战地外小规模（反恐、反暴、救援等）行动的组织。 坦吐姆•科林斯：马歇尔奖学金学者，在剑桥大学任教。 戴维•西尔弗曼：克里斯•富塞尔：CrossLead公司高级执行官，也曾经是美国海军海豹突击队军官。

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship betw...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)