This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intri...(展开全部)

The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in a firelit room filled with e...(展开全部)

"Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare".

奥利维亚•福克斯•卡巴恩，《福布斯》杂志专栏记者；魅力和领导能力专业培训师；拥有法国和美国双重国籍，精通四国语言；法国政府任命的最年轻的对外贸易顾问；财富500 强企业的会议发言人，同时也是企业高管们的魅力培训师；多次受邀至 哈 佛大学、耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院以 及联合国演讲，帮助人们增强影响力、说服力以及鼓舞人心的能力；她的作品常刊登在《纽约时报》《彭博资讯》和《商业周刊》，而她本人也常出现在《华尔街日报》的人物专栏里。

奥利维亚•福克斯•卡巴恩，《福布斯》杂志专栏记者；魅力和领导能力专业培训师；拥有法国和美国双重国籍，精通四国语言；法国政府任命的最年轻的对外贸易顾问；财富500 强企业的会议发言人，同时也是企业高管们的魅力培训师；多次受邀至 哈 佛大学、耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院以 及联合国演讲，帮助人们增强影响力、说服力以及鼓舞人心的能力；她的作品常刊登在《纽约时报》《彭博资讯》和《商业周刊》，而她本人也常出现在《华尔街日报》的人物专栏里。

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism. "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University" uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university - which ...(展开全部)

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university - which or...(展开全部)

Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man. Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children...(展开全部)

The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide. In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee ...(展开全部)

The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide. In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee ...(展开全部)