The chief concerns of this book are with the "vulnerability" of modernity. It addresses a series of questions including economic and moral institutions established by the West meet the immense challenges now posed in the late 20th century? Are we living in a world from which emotional satisfaction is disappearing? Are the structures of modern life eradicating all authentic elem...(展开全部)

"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

"Rothchild finds some compelling evidence that a Bear might be lurking in the woods. [He] addresses the subject with candor."-The Wall Street Journal *April 14, 2000. The Dow drops over 600 points. Investors the world over receive a startling reminder that "what goes up, must come down." Today's exceptionally volatile markets exemplify the hair-raising financial instability tha...(展开全部)

奥利弗·詹姆斯（Oliver James）儿童心理医生、关系精神分析学家、作家、记者、电视纪录片制作人和主持人，被英国《泰晤士报》誉为“国民心理学家”。他的著作包括《天生非此：家是如何影响我们一生的》（Not in Your Genes）、《青少年的暴力倾向：在这个只有 赢家和输家的现代文化背景下》（Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture）和《沙发上的不列颠》（Britain on the Couch）。《沙发上的不列颠》同时也是一部非常受欢迎的电视纪录片。

奥利弗·詹姆斯（Oliver James）儿童心理医生、关系精神分析学家、作家、记者、电视纪录片制作人和主持人，被英国《泰晤士报》誉为“国民心理学家”。他的著作包括《天生非此：家是如何影响我们一生的》（Not in Your Genes）、《青少年的暴力倾向：在这个只有 赢家和输家的现代文化背景下》（Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture）和《沙发上的不列颠》（Britain on the Couch）。《沙发上的不列颠》同时也是一部非常受欢迎的电视纪录片。

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Have you always enjoyed being the center of attention? Do you feel trapped by your family’s expectations of you? Do you find yourself sounding more and more like your mother? Or your father? In this groundbreaking contribution to the "nature vs. nurture" debate, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it...(展开全部)

Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.” Why do ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation,...(展开全部)