When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slop...(展开全部)

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slop...(展开全部)

The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniqu...(展开全部)

The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniqu...(展开全部)

威尔•杜兰特（Will Durant，1885-1981），先后在美国圣彼得学院和哥伦比亚大学接受高等教育，后来进入哥伦比亚大学研究生物学，并在杜威的指导下攻读哲学，1971年获哥大博士学位。1926年，他出版了《哲学的故事》，获得出乎意料的成功，随后，他花了四十余年的 时间完成了广受好评的重要著作——11卷的《世界文明史》。 他于1968年获得普利策奖，1977年获得自由勋章奖。终其一生，杜兰特都致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来。

威尔•杜兰特（Will Durant，1885-1981），先后在美国圣彼得学院和哥伦比亚大学接受高等教育，后来进入哥伦比亚大学研究生物学，并在杜威的指导下攻读哲学，1971年获哥大博士学位。1926年，他出版了《哲学的故事》，获得出乎意料的成功，随后，他花了四十余年的 时间完成了广受好评的重要著作——11卷的《世界文明史》。 他于1968年获得普利策奖，1977年获得自由勋章奖。终其一生，杜兰特都致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来。

When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.

马库斯·沃尔夫（德语：Markus Johannes "Mischa" Wolf、1923年1月19日－2006年11月9日）是德意志民主共和国国家安全部（简称史塔西）对外情报局（Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung）局长。沃尔夫在史塔西是仅次于国家安全部部长的第二号人物，他在史塔西服务34年，其中有26年的时间，西方情报单位完全没有沃尔夫的档案照，仅知他的代号“米夏（Mischa）”，因此得到“没有脸的人”的称号。沃尔夫的神秘难以捉摸成为后世许多小说的题材。许多专家认为他是冷战期间最有影响力的特务首脑之一。

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)