Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In "The Presidential Difference", he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days. He surveys each president's political skill, vision, cognitive sty...(展开全部)

Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most. Would he prove to be a pragmatic centrist or would his politics of hope ultimately flounder on the rocky shoals of America's deep political divisions? What of his leadership style? How would the uncommonl...(展开全部)

史蒂文•F.海沃德（Steven F. Hayward） 他是美国企业研究所F.K. Weyerhaeuser法律与经济研究员、旧金山太平洋研究所高级研究员以及阿什兰大学托马斯•史密斯杰出客座教授。 他拥有美国研究博士学位和克莱蒙特研究学院政治学硕士学位。 他是作家，为多种学术和大众出版物撰稿，其中包括《国家评论》《理性》《旗帜周刊》《美国观察者》《克莱蒙特书评》《政策评论》《纽约时报》及《华尔街日报》。 他更是总统历史学家，著有《真实的吉米•卡特》《伟大：里根、丘吉尔及现代政治家之造就》《里根时代：旧自由秩序的崩溃（1964-1980）》和《里根时代：保守派的反革命运动（1980-1989）》等。

Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark, "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. Obama's jour...(展开全部)

拉姆·查兰是在全球范围内声誉卓著的公司董事会和CEO的咨询顾问，同时也是畅销书作者和杰出的教授。他对商业问题的卓越洞察，以及提出的实用解决方案深受企业领导者的推崇。 查兰在通用电气公司克劳顿维尔的“杰克?韦尔奇领导力发展中心”和沃顿商学院从事了三十年的教学工作，获得过克劳顿维尔和西北大学凯洛格管理学院的最佳教师的荣誉称号。 查兰拥有哈佛商学院的MBA和DBA学位，获得贝克学者奖（Baker Scholar）。 斯蒂芬·德罗特尔是德罗特尔人力资源公司的首席执行官，该公司为全球范围内的众多客户提供高管继任计划、领导绩效和组织设计等服务。斯蒂芬在组织与管理方面拥有长达45年的经验。曾任通用电气公司组织与管理发展负责人，是通用电气继任计划系统的早期设计者与实施者之一。 詹姆斯·诺埃尔是一位独立咨询师和领导力教练。曾任乔治华盛顿大学通识教育学院的助理院长，通用...(展开全部)

拉姆·查兰是在全球范围内声誉卓著的公司董事会和CEO的咨询顾问，同时也是畅销书作者和杰出的教授。他对商业问题的卓越洞察，以及提出的实用解决方案深受企业领导者的推崇。 查兰在通用电气公司克劳顿维尔的“杰克?韦尔奇领导力发展中心”和沃顿商学院从事了三十年的教学工作，获得过克劳顿维尔和西北大学凯洛格管理学院的最佳教师的荣誉称号。 查兰拥有哈佛商学院的MBA和DBA学位，获得贝克学者奖（Baker Scholar）。 斯蒂芬·德罗特尔是德罗特尔人力资源公司的首席执行官，该公司为全球范围内的众多客户提供高管继任计划、领导绩效和组织设计等服务。斯蒂芬在组织与管理方面拥有长达45年的经验。曾任通用电气公司组织与管理发展负责人，是通用电气继任计划系统的早期设计者与实施者之一。 詹姆斯·诺埃尔是一位独立咨询师和领导力教练。曾任乔治华盛顿大学通识教育学院的助理院长，通用...(展开全部)

Dr. James David Barber,s well-known, provocative examination of who has the potential to be voted into the highest office in the land - and why - is being reissued as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. Arguing that patterns in a person,s character, world view, and style can allow us to anticipate their performance as president, The Presid...(展开全部)

In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us up to the Twitterverse. Along the way, he follows detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton's Satanic realm, the Springfield of Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield of Homer Simpson. He explains how language has been used by the great heroes of...(展开全部)

Deleuze’s readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze’s arguments against those critiques – by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger – consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called ‘transcendental empiricism’. Marc Rölli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze’s phi...(展开全部)