Calculating Credibility examines--and ultimately rejects--a fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion that backing down during a crisis reduces a country's future credibility. Fear of diminished credibility motivated America's costly participation in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and, since the end of the Cold War, this concern ha...(展开全部)

Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveli...(展开全部)

The book starts out like the setup for some punny science fiction joke: An alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer (named Hollus) asks to compare notes...(展开全部)

Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveli...(展开全部)

The book starts out like the setup for some punny science fiction joke: An alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer (named Hollus) asks to compare notes...(展开全部)

理查德·鲁梅尔特（Richard Rumelt） 知名战略管理思想家，加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森管理学院名誉教授，著有《好战略，坏战略》。他曾任美国宇航局喷气推进实验室系统工程师，负责木星探测任务的“旅行者计划”，1966年开始研究战略问题，是全世界战略研究重要的三位先驱人物之一。 《经济学人》评价其为“当今25位具世界影响力的管理思想家之一”，麦肯锡公司评价其为“战略中的战略家”。

理查德·鲁梅尔特（Richard Rumelt） 知名战略管理思想家，加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森管理学院名誉教授，著有《好战略，坏战略》。他曾任美国宇航局喷气推进实验室系统工程师，负责木星探测任务的“旅行者计划”，1966年开始研究战略问题，是全世界战略研究重要的三位先驱人物之一。 《经济学人》评价其为“当今25位具世界影响力的管理思想家之一”，麦肯锡公司评价其为“战略中的战略家”。

理查德·尼克松（Richard Nixon，1913～1994年）33岁成为最年轻的美国国会议员，40岁担任美国副总统，1968年当选美国总统，1974年因“水门事件”被迫下台。他经历了20世纪世界最动荡的时期——两次世界大战和一次冷战。美国在全球的地位和尼克松所处的美国权力顶峰的位置，给了他观察世界独特的视角。尼克松从政期间访问过80多个国家，结识了当时世界上几乎所有的二战以后的领袖，同他们有过密切接触和深入交往。他有着罕见而丰富的阅历。 1972年他作为美国总统访问北京，促成中美关系的正常化，这一事件引起了全世界的轰动。也成为尼克松外交生涯中最为传奇的一笔。尼克松确实是一个以美国利益为中心的政治家，但同时也是一个极富全球眼光的国际战略家。 1994年4月22日，尼克松因中风在纽约去世，白宫宣布葬礼当天为全国哀悼日，88个国家的代表参加了葬礼。 他...(展开全部)

Are you a genius or a genius maker ? We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum ar...(展开全部)