Editorial Reviews Amazon.com If you loved "The Rules for Being Human" attributed to "Anonymous" in the bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul, you're in luck. The author--corporate trainer Chérie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.--has stepped forward and written a follow-up book: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules. This book, "a basic spiritual primer for what it means to be a human," ...(展开全部)

Physicist and Ig Nobel Prize–winner Fisher (How to Dunk a Doughnut) explores how game theory illuminates social behavior in this lively study. Developed in the 1940s, game theory is concerned with the decisions people make when confronted with competitive situations, especially when they have limited information about the other players' choices. Every competitive situation has ...(展开全部)

Informal, friendly, and humorous, this little book has inspired thousands since its 1925 publication. Its practical examples show how positive attitudes can make you a "winner" in life. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale endorsed it as an essential guide, helping readers to "find prosperity, solve problems, have better health."

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute...(展开全部)

纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布（Nassim Nicholas Taleb） 我们这个时代伟大的思想者之一。当今令人敬畏的风险管理理论学者，被誉为拥有“罕见的勇气与博学”。塔勒布倾其一生研究不确定性、概率和知识的问题。他撰写了50篇学术论文来探讨“不确定性”，内容涉及国际关系、风险管理、统计物理学。主要研究课题是“在不透明环境下的决策”，为引导我们如何生活在一个我们并不理解的世界中提供指南或原则。 在成为一个全职作家和学术研究者之前，塔勒布做了20年的商人和交易员。现在受聘于纽约大学理工学院，任风险工程学特聘教授。

Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic progra...(展开全部)

【作者】 林德尔·戈登 Lyndall Gordon 1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学做，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 【译者】 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。

作者 | 罗纳德·C. 怀特（Ronald C. White） 在普林斯顿大学获得博士学位。曾在数百所大学和其他组织，以及葛底斯堡和白宫发表过关于林肯的演讲。他是亨廷顿图书馆的研究员，也是华盛顿特区三一论坛的高级研究员。他和夫人辛西娅目前居住在加利福尼亚州的拉肯纳达（La Cañada）。 . 译者 | 刘洋 清华大学人文学院历史系博士研究生，研究方向为近代中外关系史、中国近代思想史。

From the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander-turned-commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twen...(展开全部)

【作者】 林德尔·戈登 Lyndall Gordon 1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学做，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 【译者】 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。