We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of hist ory—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek. These men and women we...(展开全部)

We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of hist ory—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek. These men and women we...(展开全部)

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be l...(展开全部)

Knowledge and expertise are highly valued in today’s business world. These values are introduced at an early age by our education system, and at work, we are assessed based on what we know—on having the answers and solutions. Our need for certainty, to know what’s going on, to have all the answers, exerts strong pressure in our lives. This important book offers an alternative, ...(展开全部)

Part of the Nationalist Revolution Series. In the wake of worldwide Nationalist revolution, a young Republican Senator running on a platform of Libertarian Nationalism, is elected President of the United States. Now begins the greatest task ever faced by any president in history, to make America what it would have been if good people had been running things from the beginning.

罗德尼·斯塔克(Rodney Stark)，华盛顿大学社会学和比较宗教教授。他著有《理性的胜利》和《基督教的兴起》等书，包括与芬克(Roger Finke)合作的名著The Churching of America,1776-1990，以及与班布里奇(Williams Sims Bainbridge)合作的理论著作A Theory of Religion。

More than 40 percent of the people on earth today are Christians, and their number is growing more rapidly than that of any other major faith. In The Triumph of Christianity , acclaimed religious and social historian Rodney Stark explains how an obscure Jewish sect became the largest, most thriving religion in the world. In Stark's groundbreaking book The Rise of Christia...(展开全部)

"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to bring them around to psychoanalysis. Jesuits flocked to his school. Freud, an old-st...(展开全部)

Part of the Nationalist Revolution Series. In the wake of worldwide Nationalist revolution, a young Republican Senator running on a platform of Libertarian Nationalism, is elected President of the United States. Now begins the greatest task ever faced by any president in history, to make America what it would have been if good people had been running things from the beginning.

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)