Recent years have seen heightened interest in the ritual, juridical, and generallypractical aspects of the Buddhist tradition. The contributions to Rules ofEngagement build on this trend while venturing beyond the established boundariesof discourse in specialized academic disciplines, presenting state-of-the-artresearch on the vinaya in all of its breadth and depth. They do so ...(展开全部)

The first complete translation of China's earliest and most influential monastic code.

This revised edition features new interviews - everyone from the vice president of global citizenship at Cirque du Soleil to a Best Buy clerk - and new neuroscience findings. It also shows how you can foster engagement through everyday conversations, staff meetings, and work design.

Abstract: Having recovered from political persecution and resolved problems within the sangha, Buddhism reached a summit in its development during Sui and Early Tang China (581-755). Daoxuan (596-667) played an unparalleled role in shaping the direction of Buddhist history during the medieval period through both his rich writings and his innovations of monastic rituals and regu...(展开全部)

What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Franci...(展开全部)

This casebook on regulations of financial institutions reflects a financial industry that has become increasingly integrated in the last 20 years. It brings together materials that traditionally have been covered in separate courses on banking law insurance law, securities regulation, mutual funds, and pensions.

Moments of humour, surreal fantasy, and the sometimes devastating ways we interact with the people we love the most, are presented in Shaun Tan’s typical thought-provoking style. RULES OF SUMMER, is a deceptively simple story about two boys, one older and one younger, and the kind of ‘rules’ that might govern any relationship between close friends or siblings. Rules that are of...(展开全部)

An innovative framework to understanding risk management The Rules of Risk takes the reader from the present to the future of risk management. Combining a novel approach to risk management with the tools of mathematics, finance, computer science, and an understanding of capital markets, authors Dembo and Freeman present their framework of a new risk paradigm that peers into the...(展开全部)

【英】理查德·泰普勒（Richard Templar） 欧美畅销书“泰普勒人生法则系列（Rules）”图书的作者，其人生轨迹丰富多彩，在其30年的工作生涯中，涉猎了诸多领域，在不同企业内负责过不同的工作，现在他自己创业，同时经营几家公司。他的个人成功促使其开启了传道授业解惑的旅程，与大众分享他的成功法则。 据不完全统计，全球有超过240万人在按照他所建议的法则行事。有评论家认为，理查德的文字风格，既不是那种冷硬命令式、听多了让人觉得苛刻的“教科书风格”，也不是温柔多情式、听久了让人觉得黏糊糊的“中央空调风格”，而是一种介于两者之间温暖又不失客观的风格。

在线阅读本书 Some parents make it look so easy. They are eternally calm, have great relationships with their kids, and seem to have parenting down to a fine art. But is this really possible? How do they do it? Have you ever wondered what makes them so good? These parents do many things right but have one thing in common. They know The Rules of Parenting. The set of golden behav...(展开全部)