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.

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)

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。

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)

Babson College president provides a simple, systematic, and research-based method - identical to the one taught at Babson - for achieving success in an uncertain world. In a world where you can no longer plan or predict your way to success, what is the best way to achieve your goals? It's a daunting question, but today - when change seems to be the only constant - it's one that...(展开全部)

Babson College president provides a simple, systematic, and research-based method - identical to the one taught at Babson - for achieving success in an uncertain world. In a world where you can no longer plan or predict your way to success, what is the best way to achieve your goals? It's a daunting question, but today - when change seems to be the only constant - it's one that...(展开全部)

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Publisher's Synopsis In many ways, we're more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, under-challenged lives actually be the leading cause of many of our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning jour...(展开全部)