A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home. One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire...(展开全部)

A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home. One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire...(展开全部)

" Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Can we want what we already have? Why does the transition to parenthood so often spell erotic disaster? Does good intimacy always make for good sex? " Ether Perel takes on these tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conf...(展开全部)

There's intelligence involved in mating? Until recently, evolutionary psychologists have considered human mating behavior to be universal and similar to other animals, painting a picture of human mating as visceral, animalistic, and instinctual. But that's not the whole story. In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we are guided by Mating Intelligence, or the...(展开全部)

"The first chapter is free (http://www.manning-source.com/books/alag/alag_meapch1.pdf) and so is the source code used in the book (http://www.manning-source.com/books/alag/CIiA-src.zip). The book is for Java developers who want to implement “Collective Intelligence” applications in Java. It tells us about extracting and applying data from blogs, wikis and social network applica...(展开全部)

In this greatly expanded second edition, Beebe and Pherson have added five new and compelling case studies and fifteen new exercises that challenge students to engage in thorough and systematic thought. The result is a well-rounded and absorbing group of seventeen cases on events in foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, terrorism, homeland security, law enforcement, and de...(展开全部)

"The first chapter is free (http://www.manning-source.com/books/alag/alag_meapch1.pdf) and so is the source code used in the book (http://www.manning-source.com/books/alag/CIiA-src.zip). The book is for Java developers who want to implement “Collective Intelligence” applications in Java. It tells us about extracting and applying data from blogs, wikis and social network applica...(展开全部)

1934 年 8 月 7 日，由任弼时、萧克、王震领导的红六军团奉中华苏维埃中革军委命令从湘赣根据地向外围挺进。1934 年 10 月 1 日，先遣西征的红六军团在连续突破敌军围追堵截的残酷环境下，穿越湖南、广西后到达贵州黄平。此时的红军因连续作战、行军，不但减员严重，还缺粮少弹，急待补充。就在部队拟于次日秘密突袭旧州城时，出于作战需要扣压了途中相遇的薄复礼夫妇等一行 8 人。当时红军的政策是把外国教会划归为反动势力，因此攻克旧州后，红六军团决定继续扣留薄复礼等两个可疑的外国教士并随军审查。此后，红军始终处在湘鄂川黔滇山区艰苦的转战之中，为解决被扣的外国教士的问题，红军与有关方面的联络均需费时费力地互相寻找。再加上国民党政府、湘西土匪、教会等方面的破坏、敌视等原因，致使薄复礼本人不得不随红军行动长达18个月之久，行程近19000里。 尽管非薄复礼本人...(展开全部)

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopia...(展开全部)

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist...(展开全部)