Kissinger's five leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger brilliantly...(展开全部)

“Leaders,” writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, “think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and un...(展开全部)

‘Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and unc...(展开全部)

Abridged CDs • 5 CDs, 6 hours Daniel Levitin follows up his acclaimed New York Times –bestselling first book, This Is Your Brain on Music , with The World in Six Songs , an audacious look at how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms and gave rise to human culture.

The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate the fate of leftism around the world. Andre Gide (France), Richard Wright (the United...(展开全部)

Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he...(展开全部)

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It do...(展开全部)

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It do...(展开全部)

C.S.刘易斯（1898-1963），英国20世纪著名的文学家，学者，杰出的批评家，公认的二十世纪最重要的基督教作者之一。他毕生研究文学、哲学、神学，尤其对中古及文艺复兴时期的英国文学造诣尤深，著作宏富，堪称为英国文学研究的巨擘。 丁骏，复旦大学英语系副教授，研究领域为英汉双语词典，英汉翻译等。常年从事英语文学翻译，现为上海市翻译家协会理事。

The connotations of words drawn from usage in English literature are studied to recover lost meanings and analyze function in this classic study of verbal communication by an authoritative analyst of the English language.