This third volume in Bowlby's groundbreaking trilogy on child development examines the effects of a death in the family on the lives of children and adults.

Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss―of warfare, disease, and political strife―this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, fi...(展开全部)

This work stresses the illogical manner in which mathematics has developed, the question of applied mathematics as against 'pure' mathematics, and the challenges to the consistency of mathematics' logical structure that have occurred in the twentieth century.

Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss―of warfare, disease, and political strife―this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, fi...(展开全部)

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned grandd...(展开全部)

From the Author: A long time ago, before I went to medical school, my father, who is also a physician, recounted a tale he had heard at a medical conference. The story summarized the status of medicine at the time. Even then, the tale struck me as having incredibly profound implications and, 20 years later, it continues to affect the way I view medicine and how I care for my pa...(展开全部)

In March 1950 Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, a distinguished China scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, of being "the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee exonerated Lattimore four months later, but for the next two years Pat McCarran and his Senate Internal Security Committee investigated him, forcing the Justic...(展开全部)

罗伯特•莱恩（Robert E. Lane），美国政治学家和政治心理学家，英国科学院院士，美国科学促进协会会员。曾任国际政治心理学学会、美国政治学协会和政策研究学会主席。于耶鲁大学执教近50年，就职期间曾两度任政治系主任。罗伯特所著图书已被翻译成7国语言在全世界出售。此外，为表彰其在政治心理学领域做出的卓越贡献，自1994年起，美国政治学协会设立罗伯特•莱恩奖，颁给每年的最佳政治心理学图书作者。莱恩本人的这本《幸福的流失》于2001年获此奖。

Why in prosperous market democracies today do so many people regard themselves as unhappy? Robert Lane draws on extensive research in many fields to show that the main sources of well-being in advanced economies are friendships and a good family life; income has little to do with happiness once a person rises above the poverty level. Lane urges us to alter priorities and emphas...(展开全部)