Are you a heroic leader? Or are you a passive follower? Chances are you act like one or the other, and it's doing serious damage to your company, your customers, and your colleagues. The reason behind your harmful behavior? The fear that you'll be held responsible for any failures -which often makes failure the inevitable outcome. Management guru Roger Martin calls this fear of...(展开全部)

Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to p...(展开全部)

Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to p...(展开全部)

In this classic of Japanese SF from 1964, American astronauts on a space mission discover a strange virus and bring it to Earth, where rogue scientists transform it into a fatal version of the flu. After the virulent virus is released, nearly all human life on Earth is wiped out save for fewer than one thousand men and a handful of women living in research stations in Antarctic...(展开全部)

In this classic of Japanese SF from 1964, American astronauts on a space mission discover a strange virus and bring it to Earth, where rogue scientists transform it into a fatal version of the flu. After the virulent virus is released, nearly all human life on Earth is wiped out save for fewer than one thousand men and a handful of women living in research stations in Antarctic...(展开全部)

罗杰·斯克鲁顿，作家、哲学家、英国国家学术院和英国皇家文学学会研究员，在伦敦大学、牛津大学、波士顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学等知名学府拥有职位。他的作品涵盖了艺术、建筑、音乐、美学等诸多领域。他的作品包括如今已成为经典的《现代哲学简史》（1981）、《音乐美学》（1997）、《至死不渝的心:瓦格纳<特里斯坦与伊索尔德>中的性和神圣感》(2004)以及《傻瓜、骗子和煽动者》（2015年再版）。

罗杰·斯克鲁顿，作家、哲学家、英国国家学术院和英国皇家文学学会研究员，在伦敦大学、牛津大学、波士顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学等知名学府拥有职位。他的作品涵盖了艺术、建筑、音乐、美学等诸多领域。他的作品包括如今已成为经典的《现代哲学简史》（1981）、《音乐美学》（1997）、《至死不渝的心:瓦格纳<特里斯坦与伊索尔德>中的性和神圣感》(2004)以及《傻瓜、骗子和煽动者》（2015年再版）。

From the Giller Prize–winning author of Fifteen Dogs, the final installment in the massively ambitious Quincunx by one of Canada’s literary giants “Love comes from uncertainty! In fact, love is uncertainty’s greatest gift!” This is the message at the heart of Ring, André Alexis’s last installment of the Quincunx, a sequence of five novels that each borrow from a very different ...(展开全部)

From the Giller Prize–winning author of Fifteen Dogs, the final installment in the massively ambitious Quincunx by one of Canada’s literary giants “Love comes from uncertainty! In fact, love is uncertainty’s greatest gift!” This is the message at the heart of Ring, André Alexis’s last installment of the Quincunx, a sequence of five novels that each borrow from a very different ...(展开全部)

Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation rev...(展开全部)