美国著名历史学家诺斯古德·帕金森通过长期调查研究，写了一本名叫《帕金森定律》的书，他在书中阐述了机构人员膨胀的原因及后果：一个不称职的官员，可能有三条出路。第一是申请退职，把位子让给能干的人；第二是让一位能干的人来协助自己工作；第三是任用两个水平比自己更低的人当助手。 这第一条路是万万走不得的，因为那样会丧失许多权力；第二条路也不能走，因为那个能干的人会成为自己的对手；看来只有第三条路最适宜。于是，两个平庸的助手分担了他的工作，他自己则高高在上发号施令。两个助手既无能，也就上行下效，再为自己找两个无能的助手。如此类推，就形成了一个机构臃肿、人浮于事、相互扯皮、效率低下的领导体系。 至上而下，一级比一级庸人多，第二条产生出机构臃肿的庞大管理机构。由于对于一个组织而言，管理人员或多或少是注定要增长的。那么这个帕金森定律，注定要起作用。也就是有这样一个公式...(展开全部)

Do you want your life to be perfect? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier , the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. O...(展开全部)

Do you want your life to be perfect? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way - to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Happier", the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. Or do you ...(展开全部)

A prizewinning playwright shares the stunning and heartbreaking story of two adolescent boys who fall in love, painfully acknowledging their homosexuality and, at the same time, trying to sustain each other as their families fall apart around them. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. PW.

2018 Sanders Book Prize The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than...(展开全部)

“Clear, accurate, and interesting. There is no better short introduction to the existential approach to psychology.” ―Dallas Morning News The brilliant psychologist Rollo May was a major force in existential psychology. Here, he brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insights into its ideas and techniques. He pays particular atten...(展开全部)

2018 Sanders Book Prize The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than...(展开全部)

Reflections on life and art from the legendary filmmaker-novelist-poet-genius. By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky. This memoir tells the inside accoun...(展开全部)

A young outcast is swept up into a thrilling and perilous medieval treasure hunt in this literary page-turner by acclaimed bestselling author Catherine Gilbert Murdock. This epic and engrossing quest story is for fans of Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale and Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and for readers of all ages. Features a map and black-and-white art by ...(展开全部)

奎因 （W.V.O.Quine.1908－ 美国当代著名哲学家。 1933－1978年在哈佛大学工作， 历任讲师、教授、高级研究员 和讲座教授。主要著作有：《从 逻辑的观点看》（1953），《语词 和对象》（1960），《逻辑哲学》 （1970），等等。