In Depression: A Public Feelings Project, Ann Cvetkovich seeks to understand why intellectuals, activists, professionals, and other privileged people struggle with feelings of hopeless and self-loathing. She focuses particularly on those in academia, where the pressure to succeed and the desire to find space for creative thinking and alternative worlds bump up against the harsh...(展开全部)

A moving memoir in words and pictures of one woman's struggle with the little black cloud of depression pening up the darkest corners of her world, author Elizabeth Swados takes us on an unforgettable journey that is by turns poignant and funny, and will be undoubtedly familiar to those who suffer from depression and those who love them. Through the author's whimsical drawings,...(展开全部)

This paperback edition of George Rosen's classic account of the history of public health supplements the original text with Elizabeth Fee's introduction and Edward T. Morman's biographical essay and bibliography.

In this funny and provocative collection of behind-the-scenes tales from the life of a successful public speaker, bestselling business author Scott Berkun offers a unique insider's take on what public speakers do, how they do it, and how anyone can do it well. "Confessions of a Public Speaker" is an entertaining romp through the embarrassments and triumphs Berkun has experience...(展开全部)

Surviving Manic Depression is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on the disorder that affects more than two million people in the United States alone. Based on the latest research, it provides detailed coverage of every aspect of the disorder. All aspects of the disease are addressed: symptoms, with many direct descriptions from patients themselves, risk factors, onset a...(展开全部)

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, “depression” referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren’t sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth centu...(展开全部)

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

尼古拉斯·亨利（Nicholas Henry）是一位著名的公共行政学家，专长于公共政策分析与公共管理研究。他先后在美国印第安纳大学布卢明顿校区（Indiana University, Bloomington）获得公共管理硕士（MPA）和哲学博士学位。亨利教授著书十余本，发表论文几十篇，其论文获得过《美国公共行政评论》颁发的埃德文·O·斯坦恩（Edwin O.Stene）奖。他曾就职于美国印第安纳州立大学、新墨西哥大学、佐治亚大学以及亚利桑那州立大学。他所领导的佐治亚南部大学曾被CNN专题报道为美国高等教育的一颗新星，而他本人也步入了佐治亚洲100位当代最有影响人物的行列。

From one of the world's leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness "One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind." --The New York...(展开全部)

默里•罗斯巴德((Murray N. Rothbard, 1926-1995)， 美国经济学家、历史学家、自然法理论家，奥地利经济学派的代表人物。在哥伦比亚大学取得学士、硕士和博士学位，师承约瑟夫•朵夫曼（Joseph Dorfman）。生前主要担任内华达大学经济学S. J. Hall讲座杰出教授。他曾任米塞斯研究院（Ludwig von Mises Institute）学术事务副会长，《奥地利经济学评论》（Review of Austrian Economics）的编辑，也曾长期参与纽约大学举办的米塞斯研讨会。主要著作有：《1819年大恐慌》（The Panic of 1819）、《人、经济与国家》（Man, Economy, and State）、《美国大萧条》（America’s Great Depression）、 《权力与市场》（Power...(展开全部)