The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it. Michael Herzfeld takes us inside a rich variety of small-town Cretan artisans' workshops to show how apprentices are systematically thwarted into learning by stealth and guile. This hars...(展开全部)

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitabl...(展开全部)

巴塞尔·范德考克（Bessel van der Kolk）是世界知名心理创伤治疗大师，位于布鲁克林的创伤中心的创始人和医疗主管。他也是波士顿大学医学院的精神科教授、国家创伤综合征治疗联盟（National Complex Trauma Treatment Network）的主任。他经常在世界各地教学，主要在波士顿工作和生活。

'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatme...(展开全部)

How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are th...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did ...(展开全部)

罗纳德·诺克斯（1888－1957） 他本来是英国国教牧师，后来却变成了天主教的牧师。他不仅提出了“推理十诫”，更是“福尔摩斯学”的开创者。他占据着英国侦探小说历史上最独特的位置，奠定了黄金时期的侦探小说理论，而且破坏了侦探小说创作不成文的惯例。他的小说布局奇诡、文字优雅，深受后辈作家的好评。他就是优秀的侦探小说家——罗纳德·诺克斯。

罗纳德·诺克斯（1888－1957） 他本来是英国国教牧师，后来却变成了天主教的牧师。他不仅提出了“推理十诫”，更是“福尔摩斯学”的开创者。他占据着英国侦探小说历史上最独特的位置，奠定了黄金时期的侦探小说理论，而且破坏了侦探小说创作不成文的惯例。他的小说布局奇诡、文字优雅，深受后辈作家的好评。他就是优秀的侦探小说家——罗纳德·诺克斯。

On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Stud...(展开全部)