Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring writers when it was first published, Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide has been meticulously updated and revised to address the dramatic changes that have reshaped the publishing industry in the decade since. From blank page to first glowing (or gutting) review, Lerner is a knowing and sympathetic...(展开全部)

If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? "The Forest and the Trees" is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical - the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. This revised and updated edition features: a new chapter that brings together the various aspects of the sociological m...(展开全部)

A manager's guide to applying systems thinking and making it a part of daily decision making.

A manager's guide to applying systems thinking and making it a part of daily decision making.

When Diana Beresford-Kroeger–whose father was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and whose mother was an O’Donoghue, one of the stronghold families who carried on the ancient Celtic traditions–was orphaned as a child, she could have been sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Instead, the O’Donoghue elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in Cou...(展开全部)

克劳瑞·A．尼沃拉 出色的图画书女画家。自编自绘了作品《伊丽莎白》和《森林》，曾和作家阿米·海斯特合作推出了《娜娜的星期五晚上》一书。现在跟家人住在美国马萨诸塞州。

[意] 里卡尔多·博兹 著 里卡尔多 · 博兹是一名记者,1966年出生于米兰, 从1990年开始就在意大利《晚邮报》工作。 他说:“当我们学会如何聆听树木时, 我们思想的简洁、敏捷和孩子般的喧嚣达到无比的快乐。” 于是他写下了《森林》的故事。 [西] 比奥莱塔·洛佩斯 绘 比奥莱塔·洛佩斯是一位现居德国柏林的西班牙插画师, 曾被杂志El Culture誉为当代西班牙十大插画师之一。 她为《走过那片森林》创作了独特的浮雕、模切艺术。 [意] 瓦莱里奥·维达利 绘 瓦莱里奥·维达利是一位意大利插画家, 目前生活在葡萄牙。插画作品曾获得国际插图双年展、 美国插画家协会和博洛尼亚童书展多项插画大奖。已出版作品有《你想过怎样的一生？》。

Trees provide shelter, medicine and food. They are part of our imaginations, folklore, ecosystems and our lives. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a world expert on trees, has woven together ecology, myth, horticulture, spirituality and science to show how their future is ours. From hedgerows that contain an entire chain of life to trees that can breathe, heal, nurture and even communic...(展开全部)

苏珊·佩滕，人力资源咨询专家，70年代毕业于普林斯顿大学，她的两个儿子和媳妇也都毕业于这所著名大学。因此被称为“普林斯顿妈”。因本书的出版，2014年被提名入选美国《时代周刊》最有影响力的百人名单。 本书由北大87级8位女生联袂推荐，并承担翻译工作。这八位女生都已成婚有子，同时事业有成。从作者到译者，这些高智商的优秀女性，共同的生活阅历使她们在婚恋家庭问题上达成了东西方文化观念的一致，这可以在一定程度上说明作者所提倡的理性的婚恋态度，应该是女性在现代生活方式下的正确选择，读者也可以籍此书领略北大妈妈们简洁睿智、风趣活泼的语言风格，这将使阅读此书的过程成为一次酣畅淋漓、透彻犀利的人生反思之旅。

"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."-Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon). The Prim...(展开全部)