A new approach, proven in the field, for making progress on our most important and difficult collective challenges Based on Kahane's first-hand experiences working with teams of business, government and civil society leaders around the world Profound, personal and practical.

W．菲利普斯·夏夫利（W. Phillips Shively），现为美国明尼苏达大学政治学系教授。1971年之前在耶鲁大学、俄勒冈大学任教，还曾经担任挪威奥斯陆大学访问教授。历任《美国政治科学杂志》编辑、美国政治学会全国大会专题主席以及“选举制度比较研究”项目的负责人。他主要从事选举体制比较研究。曾在《美国政治科学评论》《美国政治科学杂志》《政治学杂志》及《政治分析》等顶级期刊上发表多篇论文，其最具广泛影响的代表性著作包括《政治科学研究方法》《跨层推断》（合著）。此外，他还曾担任明尼苏达州的院外活动成员，有较丰富的政治实践经历。

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia. R...(展开全部)

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions throughout the world, exercising cast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of myriad of other polities that had battled one another over the previous mi...(展开全部)

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk. "From the Paperback...(展开全部)

The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York Daily News.

[美]艾莉森•卢里（Alison Lurie，1926— ） 康奈尔大学英国文学教授，1985年凭借小说《外交事务》获得普利策奖。她是60年代崛起的女作家群中的一位佼佼者，被文学评论家评价为睿智过人的“社会风俗”小说家。她的作品多是世态喜剧,重点探讨美国中产阶级的社会生活，对知识分子生活世界的探讨尤为深入细致。

The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation. Bringing fresh insight to these concepts, May shows how we can attain a deeper consciousness. 点击链接进入中文版： 爱与意志

This book is intended for the use of those who can still be charmed by books and who have an irreducible interest in the depiction of love. Such persons use books for pleasure and instruction. Books about love inform and elevate the fantasy life of their readers and actually become part of their eros while teaching them about it...The best books not only help us to describe the...(展开全部)