This provocative literary debut--part personal history, part commentary--interweaves explications of Greek philosophers with commentary of our own era to provide a lyrical and highly charged quest for a personal mythology.

Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity.It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate ...(展开全部)

At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide f...(展开全部)

The Elusive Obvious deals with simple, fundamental notions of our daily life that through habit become elusive. Time is money is obviously a good attitude to have in business or work. It is not at all obvious that in love the same attitude is the cause of so much unhappiness. We often make mistakes. We carry over from one activity to another attitudes of mind that do not make l...(展开全部)

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.