彼得·德鲁克（Peter F. Drucker）：现代管理大师，对世人贡献卓越，影响深远，被尊为“大师中的大师”、“现代管理之父”。2002年6月20日，美国总统乔治·W·布什宣布彼得·德鲁克成为当年的“总统自由勋章”的获得者，这是美国公民所能获得的最高荣誉。 彼得·德鲁克于1909年生于奥匈帝国的维也纳，祖籍为荷兰人。其家族在十七世纪时从事书籍出版工作（Drucker原意为“印刷者”）。德鲁克在哈佛商业评论发表文章已超过30篇，著作多达50余本，传播及130多个国家，甚至在前苏联、波兰、南斯拉夫、捷克等国也极为畅销。其中最受推崇的是他的原则概念及发明，包括：“将管理学开创成为一门学科、目标管理与自我控制是管理哲学、组织的目的是为了创造和满足顾客、企业的基本功能是行销与创新、高层管理者在企业策略中的角色、成效比效率更重要、分权化、民营化、知识工作者的...(展开全部)

In The Symbol Theory, Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are also tangible sound-patterns of human communication, made possible by the evolutionary biological precondition of human vocal apparatus. At a third level, the book ...(展开全部)

Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European...(展开全部)

This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. Major thinkers theorize affect: visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores "cruel optimism," Brian Massumi theorizes the af...(展开全部)

We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with analog and digital images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has hitherto unconsidered consequences not only for the way we think about contempo...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestselling Author. Millions of books sold worldwide! A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words? If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let T...(展开全部)

Has "theory" neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname "Theory," has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning (or meaninglessness), of politics, but not theory of literature. In this timely and wide-ranging book, Jonathan Culler, whose ...(展开全部)

Introducing this collection of essays, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking backoinvestigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplinesosuggests a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem separate today emerged from overlapp...(展开全部)