An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world—from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the countr...(展开全部)

How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution of embodiment to cognition is inescapable. Because this insight has been develop...(展开全部)

All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history & culture. In a book that wil...(展开全部)

塞思·霍罗威茨（Seth Horowitz），任教于美国布朗大学神经科学和心理学系，开设有动物行为学、神经行为学、大脑发育学、听觉生物学和音乐思维等课程。他在人类听觉、平衡和睡眠研究方面的工作得到了美国的国家卫生研究院、国家科学基金会和国家航空航天局的资助。同时，他还是NeuroPop公司的联合创始人及首席神经科学家，致力于将基础研究应用于真实世界。

塞思·霍罗威茨（Seth Horowitz），任教于美国布朗大学神经科学和心理学系，开设有动物行为学、神经行为学、大脑发育学、听觉生物学和音乐思维等课程。他在人类听觉、平衡和睡眠研究方面的工作得到了美国的国家卫生研究院、国家科学基金会和国家航空航天局的资助。同时，他还是NeuroPop公司的联合创始人及首席神经科学家，致力于将基础研究应用于真实世界。

For the past 40 years Richard Koch has wanted to uncover the simple, elemental, elegant and parsimonious principles that are needed to create great new businesses. To qualify, a principle must be so overwhelmingly powerful that anyone can reliably use it towards extraordinary results. Is there any principle that can tell you how to do that consistently and with a high chance of...(展开全部)

理查德·科克（Richard Koch），80/20法则的首创人，同时也是一位知名的“连续创业家”。他很早就开始了成功的商业实践活动，曾是美国波士顿咨询公司（BCG）的高级咨询师，也是贝恩管理咨询公司（Bain & Company）的合伙人，以及英国著名的LEK（艾意凯）公司的联合创始人。 格雷格·洛克伍德（Greg Lockwood），著名投资人，专注于互联网企业。先后就职于IBM和埃森哲两家国际咨询公司，从事人力资源咨询工作。 李璐，新闻学硕士。曾参与翻译“哈佛商业评论管理必读”系列丛书之《自我发现与重塑》。

The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and nongovernmental--from the end of the nineteenth century to today. Akira Iriye, on...(展开全部)

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkabl...(展开全部)

A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Composed of short biographies about imaginary writers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the USA, Nazi Lit...(展开全部)