Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, bu...(展开全部)

This unique guide shows managers how to let this spirit blossom by adopting the informal leadership strategies women have used for ages - vision, storytelling, structure, comfort, and renewal.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and...(展开全部)

鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）生于美国纽约，5岁时跟随家人移居伦敦，先后就读于伊顿公学和牛津大学，与现任保守党领袖戴维·卡梅伦同为布灵顿俱乐部会员。 在2001年成为英国国会保守党籍议员之前，约翰逊曾在《泰晤士报》、《每日电讯报》和《旁观者》杂志从事实习生、记者与主编等工作，专门撰写讽刺性的政论，并出版了7本书。之后，他成为保守党副主席，任保守党“影子内阁”教育大臣。2008年5月，他当选伦敦为市长，2012年5月又获得新的四年任期。他被认为是下一届英国首相的最富有实力的竞争者。 约翰逊育有四个孩子，喜欢骑自行车、写作、画画和打网球。他极富喜剧天才，其玩笑和搞怪形象让他在英国乃至世界许多国家和地区家喻户晓，BBC的搞笑谈话节目“我有没有给你新闻”因此而请他客串主持人，获得了英国电视奖的提名。他也因不拘小节的仪表和行为在2008年北京奥运...(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking book, Ken Wilber uses his widely acknowledged "spectrum of consciousness" model to completely rewrite our approach to such important fields as psychology, spirituality, anthropology, cultural studies, art and literary theory, ecology, feminism, and planetary transformation. What would each of those fields look like if we wholeheartedly accepted the existe...(展开全部)