英国艺术史家，小说家，画家。1926年出生于伦敦。1946年从军队退役后进入Central School of Art和Chelsea School of Art学习。1948年至1955年以教授绘画为业，曾举办个人画展。1952年，他开始为伦敦左派杂志New Statesman撰稿，并迅速成为英国当代最有影响力的艺术批评家。此后他更有多部艺术专著问世，如《观看之道》、《看》、《另一种讲述的方式》、《毕加索的成败》等，已经是艺术批评的经典；他亦写小说，名篇G.（1972）获英国布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。 最近20年间，伯格一直生活在阿尔卑斯山脚下的一个法国小村庄中。濒临消亡的传统山区生活方式令他着迷，并反映在他的作品中。 ... 我尊崇并热爱约翰·伯格的作品。他为世间真正重要之事写作，而非随兴所至。在当代英语作家中，我奉他为翘楚；自劳伦斯以...(展开全部)

In this bold new look at human behavior journatist and Olympian Matthwe Syed reveals how competition-the most vivid primal and dramatic of human pursuits-provides vital insight into many of the most controeersial issues of our time froim biology and economics to psychology and culture to genetics and race to sports and politics. Backed by cutting-edge scientific ressarch and ca...(展开全部)

Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under ten seconds been black? What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common? Is it good to praise a child's intelligence? Why are baseball players so superstitious? Few things in life are more satisfying than beating a rival. We love to win and hate to lose, whether it's on th...(展开全部)

The lessons of this book can help us all find the opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered in the challenges we face every day. This book is about failure, but failure in a whole new light. It is about how to Fail To Succeed.

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to counter-hegemony. Judith Halberstam proposes ...(展开全部)

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to counter-hegemony. Judith Halberstam proposes ...(展开全部)

"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso’s character long overlooked." ―Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal "A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light." ―Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Born from her probing inquiry into Picasso's odyssey in F...(展开全部)

一部关于美国标志性企业令人震惊的崛起和难以想象的衰落的神奇历史 也许没有哪家公司能像标志性的通用电气公司一样，反映美国的智慧、创新和工业财富。通用电气公司拥有众多传奇式的领导人和几乎所有可以想象到的产品，它的成功为人们所崇拜，但却隐藏着根基上的裂痕。作为美国杰出的财经记者之一，威廉-D-科汉（William D. Cohan）在这部巨著中指出，通用电气的遗产既是了解二十世纪美国的典范，也是警世故事。 《Power Failure》介绍了通用电气公司 130 年的峥嵘历史，通过对公司黄金时代的关键人物（包括杰克-韦尔奇本人）进行罕见的采访，为读者带来了全新的分析。正如科汉所叙述的，韦尔奇以其传统为基础，使通用电气成为世界上有价值、受尊敬的公司，同时也掩盖了其弱点。科汉认为，他交给继任者杰弗里-伊梅尔特的，既是一个不可能达到的标准，也是一个更加麻烦的...(展开全部)

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。