"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

奥利弗·詹姆斯（Oliver James）儿童心理医生、关系精神分析学家、作家、记者、电视纪录片制作人和主持人，被英国《泰晤士报》誉为“国民心理学家”。他的著作包括《天生非此：家是如何影响我们一生的》（Not in Your Genes）、《青少年的暴力倾向：在这个只有 赢家和输家的现代文化背景下》（Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture）和《沙发上的不列颠》（Britain on the Couch）。《沙发上的不列颠》同时也是一部非常受欢迎的电视纪录片。

奥利弗·詹姆斯（Oliver James）儿童心理医生、关系精神分析学家、作家、记者、电视纪录片制作人和主持人，被英国《泰晤士报》誉为“国民心理学家”。他的著作包括《天生非此：家是如何影响我们一生的》（Not in Your Genes）、《青少年的暴力倾向：在这个只有 赢家和输家的现代文化背景下》（Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture）和《沙发上的不列颠》（Britain on the Couch）。《沙发上的不列颠》同时也是一部非常受欢迎的电视纪录片。

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Have you always enjoyed being the center of attention? Do you feel trapped by your family’s expectations of you? Do you find yourself sounding more and more like your mother? Or your father? In this groundbreaking contribution to the "nature vs. nurture" debate, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it...(展开全部)

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the prese...(展开全部)

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present...(展开全部)

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic, and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, Eco published a little book for his students, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis. Since...(展开全部)