Focusing on Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet, Mr. Brustein uncovers the roots of the modern theatre in the soil of the rebellion they cultivated. One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater. --New York Times

Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, The Logic of Governance in China develops a unified theoretical framework to explain how China's centralized political system maintains governance and how this process produces recognizable policy cycles that are obstacles to bureaucratic rationalization, professionalism, and rule of law. The book is unique for the overarching framewo...(展开全部)

罗伯特·塞奇威克（Robert Sedgewick），斯坦福大学博士，导师为Donald E.Knuth,从1985年开始一直担任普林斯顿大学计算机科学系教授，曾任系主任，也是Adobe Systems公司董事会成员，曾在Xerox PARC、国防分析研究所和法国国家信息与电话研究所（INRIA）从事研究工作。他的研究方向包括数据结构和算法的分析与设计、程序可视化等。他同时也是《Java程序设计和算法（第4版）》的作者之一（另一个作者是Kevin Wayne）。 凯文·韦恩（Kevin Wayne），康奈尔大学博士，普林斯顿大学计算机科学系高级讲师。他自1998年开始任教于普林斯顿大学，研究方向包括算法的设计、分析和实现，特别是图和离散化。他是ACM杰出教育家。 罗伯特·唐德罗（Robert Dondero），德雷塞尔大学博士，普林斯顿大学计算机科学...(展开全部)

First published in 1985, "Habits of the Heart" continues to be one of the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a quest for a democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions. In a new preface the authors relate the arguments of the book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the countr...(展开全部)

Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sickness--a quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions--has contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and t...(展开全部)

"This book is rich with examples illustrating medical, religious, racial, and gendered discourses about its subject and the impact these have had, and continue to have, in the provision of medical care to the public . . . A fascinating read" --Library Journal "Bourke has done a fine job of detailing the story of pain and the folly it reveals." --Kirkus Reviews "The Story of Pai...(展开全部)

纳尔逊•古德曼，著名的分析哲学家、逻辑学家、科学哲学家和美学家，现代唯名论、新实用主义的主要代表之一。著有《表象的结构》(1952)、《事实、虚构和预测》(1954)、《艺术的语言》(1968)、《构造世界的多种方式》(1978)、《心灵及其他问题》(1984)等。

“Finally we have a self-help book from a reputable scientist whose advice is based on the best experimental data.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness “Is lasting happiness attainable or a pipe dream? For the last eighteen years, University of California—Riverside professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky has studied this question, and ...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, practical guide to attaining happiness based on innovative scientific research, The How of Happiness is a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands. Drawing upon years of her own pioneering research with thousands of men and women, psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky...(展开全部)