An exploration of the relationship between literature and life, this study examines the effect on readers of "suicidal literature"—novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of suicide. Beginning with a discussion of the growing incidence of suicide in American culture, Jeffrey Berman investigates the portrayal of suicide in the works of four authors who later...(展开全部)

克叶尔·埃瑞克·鲁德斯坦（Kjell Erik Rudestam）,博士，加州圣巴巴拉菲尔丁研究生大学学术副主任。曾任多伦多约克大学心理学教授，获得奥勒冈大学心理学博士学位。他著有《自我改变的方法》《实验组的理论与实践》《如何对待多问题家庭》（与马克•弗兰克尔合著）、《你的统计咨询师：数据分析问题解答》（与雷•牛顿合著）；其他著作还有《网上学习手册》（与朱迪•里德合著）、《分布式学习百科全书》（与安娜•迪•斯戴法诺和罗伯特•西沃曼合著），并在专业刊物上发表多篇论文。他的研究兴趣包括心理治疗和变化过程、自杀、家庭与组织系统等。他是执业临床心理医师、美国心理学协会理事、美国职业心理（临床）考试委员会证书持有人。 雷·R.牛顿（Rae R.Newton），博士，加州大学富乐敦分校社会学系名誉教授。目前担任加州圣巴巴拉菲尔丁研究生大学顾问，是阿兰•利特朗尼克...(展开全部)

Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third Edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the autho...(展开全部)

An exploration of the relationship between literature and life, this study examines the effect on readers of "suicidal literature"—novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of suicide. Beginning with a discussion of the growing incidence of suicide in American culture, Jeffrey Berman investigates the portrayal of suicide in the works of four authors who later...(展开全部)

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, t...(展开全部)

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, t...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine....(展开全部)

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutio...(展开全部)

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutio...(展开全部)

金伯利•罗斯 她是心理健康方面的专业作者与记者，对“边缘型人格障碍”进行过深入研究，在《芝加哥论坛报》等多家报刊杂志上发表过多篇生理与心理健康方面的文章。 弗雷达•弗兰德曼博士 在过去的20年里，她研究的临床重点是边缘人格障碍，为该类人群提供治疗、教育、咨询以及技术支持。她是几个专业医疗机构的董事，并在纽约和芝加哥着重开发边缘人格障碍课程。