How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling the growth of the money supply or pegging the exchange rate to a stable currency. In recent years a promising new approach has emerged: publicly announcing and pursuing specific targets for the rate of inflation. This boo...(展开全部)

作者簡介 Wilfred R. Bion（畢昂） 畢昂1897年生於印度，八歲始至英國接受學校教育。第一次世界大戰期間，他於法國服役，擔任戰車指揮官，並獲頒卓越服務勳章以及榮譽勳位。在牛津的皇后學院攻讀歷史之後，他轉往倫敦的大學學院研習醫學。因為對精神分析的興趣日益增加，他開始接受瑞克曼的訓練分析，之後則由克萊因接手。在1940-1950年期間，他專注於團體過程的研究。後來他放棄這個領域而轉向精神分析的實務工作，之後擔任倫敦精神分析診所主任（1956-1962）以及英國精神分析學會會長（1962-1965）。1968年起，他到洛杉磯工作，1979年回到英國，兩個月後過世。 譯者簡介 劉時寧　精神科專科醫師 現任：培靈醫院醫師 仁愛醫院精神科合約醫師 呂旭立紀念文教基金會諮商師

Experience is a powerful teacher, but it's also slow and painful. You can't afford to make every mistake yourself! Software Development Pearls helps you improve faster and bypass much of the pain by learning from others who already climbed the learning curves. Drawing on 25+ years helping software teams succeed, Karl Wiegers has crystallized 60 concise, practical lessons for al...(展开全部)

The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not shape the penis–or the human attached to it–to have the upper…hand. Phallacy looks closely at some of nature’s more remarkable examples of penises and the many lessons to learn from them. In tracing how we ended up positioning our n...(展开全部)

This self-published success is now an attractively packaged gift book for Francophiles determined to achieve that certain je ne sais quoi that all French women have. Have you ever wondered what everyday life is like inside a modern, aristocratic Parisian household? The French are notoriously secretive when it comes to their private lives, but Jennifer L. Scott’s Lessons fro...(展开全部)

An elegant call to a new biology that goes beyond reductionism~The Human Genome Project is the culmination of a two-centuries-old scientific tradition that takes as its central tenet the principle of

An elegant call to a new biology that goes beyond reductionism~The Human Genome Project is the culmination of a two-centuries-old scientific tradition that takes as its central tenet the principle of

The performance of the U.S. economy in the 1990s far outstripped expectations. Growth was surprisingly strong, unemployment fell to the lowest level in a generation, and yet inflation remained dormant. Why? And what lessons can we learn from this wonderful episode? Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen, who participated in these events both at the Federal Reserve Board and in the...(展开全部)

彼得·盖伊（Peter Gay，1923—2015），德裔美国历史学家，耶鲁大学荣休教授。1923年生于柏林，1938年移民美国，在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，先后任教于哥伦比亚大学、耶鲁大学。著作等身，研究广泛涉及启蒙运动、中产阶级等诸多社会文化史领域。曾荣获美国国家图书奖、美国历史学会杰出学术贡献奖、美国艺术与文学院金奖。 早期代表作之一《启蒙时代》（The Enlightenment: An Interpretation）在文化史研究领域具有典范意义，五卷本《布尔乔亚经验》（The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud）是其晚年最重要的作品。 译者简介： 赵勇，大连外国语大学高级翻译学院教授，全国人大常委会法工委法律英文译审专家委员会委员，南京大学博士，美国波士顿大学访问学者，主要译著有《社会理论与现代社...(展开全部)

Known to the millions of viewers of the hit reality television show The Apprentice, Carolyn Kepcher attracted enormous media attention for her cool demeanor and her no-holds-barred assessments of the show's candidates in the boardroom each week. In particular, she was not shy about speaking out about her disappointment with the professional conduct of the female candidates, ...(展开全部)