约瑟夫·勒杜（Joseph LeDoux） 世界知名脑科学家，纽约大学神经科学中心亨利·摩西和露西·摩西科学教授，他领导着纽约大学的情绪大脑研究所和内森·克莱恩精神病学研究所，也是美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。 因在记忆和情绪的脑机制研究方面的杰出贡献和成就，勒杜曾获得多项荣誉，包括美国心理科学协会威廉·詹姆斯奖、美国哲学学会卡尔·斯宾塞·拉什利奖、费森国际认知科学奖、美国心理学会杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理学会唐纳德·O.赫布奖等。 在研究之外，勒杜也著有多部兼具公众教育意义和学术价值的图书，包括《情绪大脑》（The Emotional Brain）、《突触自我》（Synaptic Self）和《重新认识焦虑》（Anxious），其中《重新认识焦虑》一书获得2016年美国心理学会威廉·詹姆斯图书奖。

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

This outstanding work on the history of philosophy and ideas, written by world-renowned philosopher, historian of philosophy, and teacher John Herman Randall, Jr., is now available for the first time in paperback. Long acclaimed a contemporary classic, "The Making of the Modern Mind" displays the comprehensiveness, clarity of style, balance, and wit that came to characterize al...(展开全部)

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Eden...(展开全部)

All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadershipas well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magiste...(展开全部)

All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadershipas well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magiste...(展开全部)

When this important work was originally published in 1950-the first book in this country on anxiety-it was hailed as a work ahead of its time.In the revised edition of this now-classic study, the distinguished author of Love and Will deepens his exploration into anxiety theory. Dr. May challenges the idea that mental health means living without anxiety, and he explores anxiety'...(展开全部)

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives...(展开全部)

Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar