Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves...(展开全部)

莫提默·J.艾德苗（(Mortimer J.Adler，1902-2001） 以学者、教育家、编辑人等多重面貌享有盛名。除了写作《如何阅读一本书》外，以主编《西方世界的经典》，并担任1974年第十五版《大英百科全书》的编辑指导而闻名于世。另外，他还曾任大观念研究中心的名誉主席，是该中心的最初发起者之一。

Mortimer J. Adler's classic How to Read a Book was an instant bestseller upon publication, and its worldwide sales today total over seven million copies. Audiences will find this companion book just as provocative as its predecessor. Drawing on decades of experience as an educator and philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler offers a short course in effective communication, filled with h...(展开全部)

The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, and to use that knowledge to imp...(展开全部)

The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, and to use that knowledge to imp...(展开全部)

There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates knowledge but it also spreads hatred. Eating meat is nutritious but it's also damaging to the environment. When we communicate we naturally select the truths that are most helpful to our agenda. We can select truths constructively to inspire organizations, encourage children, and drive progressive change....(展开全部)

赫克托•麦克唐纳（Hector MacDonald），牛津大学生物科学学士，英士国际商学院工商管理硕士，全球知名商业咨询专家，为世界顶尖企业提供咨询服务，客户包括巴克莱银行、辉瑞制药、世界黄金协会、德勤会计师事务所等。

赫克托•麦克唐纳（Hector MacDonald），牛津大学生物科学学士，英士国际商学院工商管理硕士，全球知名商业咨询专家，为世界顶尖企业提供咨询服务，客户包括巴克莱银行、辉瑞制药、世界黄金协会、德勤会计师事务所等。

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional...(展开全部)