小瓦尔迪默•奥兰多•基（Valdimer Orlando Key, Jr.），美国著名政治学家。先后任教于加州大学洛杉矶分校、霍普金斯大学、耶鲁大学、哈佛大学，曾担任美国政治学会主席。主要著作有《政治、政党和压力集团》、《南方政治：州和国家》（Southern Politics in States and Nation）、《公共舆论与美国民主》（Public Opinion and American Democracy）等。

Stephanie Cole (Doc Martin), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam (The Thick of It) star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally bett...(展开全部)

Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street—our environments are themselves products of our behavior. Under the Influence explains how to unlock the latent power of social context. It reveals how our environments encourage smoking, bullying, tax...(展开全部)

Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street—our environments are themselves products of our behavior. Under the Influence explains how to unlock the latent power of social context. It reveals how our environments encourage smoking, bullying, tax...(展开全部)

In the style of The Tipping Point or Freakonomics, a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world. The fearless Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In Join the C...(展开全部)

埃斯特•博塞拉普（Ester Boserup，1910—1999），丹麦20世纪著名女性经济学家，出生于哥本哈根，于1935年从哥本哈根大学获得涵盖理论经济学和社会学、农业政策的学位。她的研究领域是经济学和农业发展，曾在丹麦政府工作，后在联合国欧洲经济委员会从事农业贸易政策方面的工作，后又在印度致力于将自己的理论运用到农业发展实践中。回到丹麦之后，博塞拉普在很多机构从事顾问工作，并创作了她一生中最重要的几部著作，其中成就深远的作品就是《农业增长的条件：人口压力下农业演变的经济学》，在该书中，她挑战了马尔萨斯学说，提出了影响深远的农业演变理论。

When it first appeared in 1965, The Conditions of Agricultural Growth heralded a breakthrough in the theory of agricultural development. Whereas 'development' had previously been seen as the transformation of traditional communities by the introduction (or imposition) of new technologies, Ester Boserup argued that changes and improvements occur from within agricultural communit...(展开全部)

Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for twenty-five years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, personable fifteen-year-old girl, from a loving and financially comfortable family, came into her office with the word empty carved into her left forearm, Levine was startled. This girl and her message se...(展开全部)

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders—rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents. Materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, and disconnection a...(展开全部)