In Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser offers readers a new and far more effective way to get along with the people in our lives.He explains convincingly that, barring severe poverty or untreatable illness, unsatisfying or disconnecting relationships are the source of almost all crime, addiction, and mental illness, as well as marital, family, and school failure. For progres...(展开全部)

In this ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom,...(展开全部)

A reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct psychology written by its founder.

菲利普•佩迪特（Philip Noel Pettit），1945年出生于爱尔兰，曾长期任教于澳大利亚国立大学，拥有爱尔兰和澳大利亚双重国籍；当代著名社会理论家，享有多种学术荣誉并担任多种学术职务，现为美国普林斯顿大学威廉•尼尔森•克伦威尔政治学教授（William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics）；其主要著作包括：《判断正义》（Judging Justice，1980）、《不仅仅是惩罚》（Not Just Deserts，合著，1990）、《罗尔斯》（Rawls，合著，1990）、《大众的心智》（The Common Mind，1993）、《共和主义》（Republicanism，1997/平装本，1999）、《伦理学的三种方法》（Three Methods of Ethics，合著，1997）、《一种自由...(展开全部)

This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The author's eloquent, compelling account opens with an examination of the traditional republican conception of freedom as non-domination, contrasting this with established negative and positive views of liber...(展开全部)

In his new book the eminent Kant scholar Henry Allison provides an innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom. The author analyzes the concept and discusses the role it plays in Kant's moral philosophy and psychology. He also considers in full detail the critical literature on the subject from Kant's own time to the present day. In the first part P...(展开全部)

In this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natural growth, and suggests a set of rules and guidelines by which we can inject that 'organic' character back into our High Streets, buildings, and squares. At a time when so many of Britain's inner cities are undergoing, or are in nee...(展开全部)

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important qu...(展开全部)

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important qu...(展开全部)