Fresh on the heals of the successful What Dogs Teach Us, author Glenn Dromgoole offers the similarly insightful What Cats Teach Us. Cats, better known for their reprimanding attitudes towards humans, still have much to teach. From keeping fastidious grooming habits, eating a healthy fish diet and getting plenty of rest to nurturing your independent spirit, expressing your indiv...(展开全部)

Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, 'know thyself', it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them. This 2006 book argues why critical thinking is necessary in schools because it requires the discussion o...(展开全部)

内尔·诺丁斯(Nel Noddings)，博士，美国斯坦福大学荣誉退休教授，美国教育哲学协会和约翰·杜威研究协会前任主席。她的主要著作包括：《关心：伦理和道德教育的女性观点》（1984）、《女性与罪恶》（1989）、《学会关心——教育的另一种模式》（1992）、《培养智慧的信仰和反叛》（1993）、《教育哲学》（1995）、《始于家庭：关怀与社会政策》（2002）、《培养道德的人：以关怀伦理替代人格教育》（2002），以及最新出版的《幸福与教育》（2003），等等。同时她也是170篇文章的作者。这些著作和文章的内容涉猎从关怀伦理到数学分析等广泛问题，在学术界受到高度关注，并具有国际影响。诺丁斯曾经在美国公立学校任职15年，先后从事教学、行政和课程开发工作。她曾经担任新泽西州中学数学教研部主任、芝加哥大学杜威实验学校和斯坦福大学教育学院院长。在斯坦福大...(展开全部)

Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern t...(展开全部)

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are unable to beat the market over the long term, which has led to massive outflows from active funds to passive funds. Where should investors turn in search of a new approach? Pulak Prasad offers a philosophy of patient long-term investing based on an unexpected source: evolutionary bi...(展开全部)

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are unable to beat the market over the long term, which has led to massive outflows from active funds to passive funds. Where should investors turn in search of a new approach? Pulak Prasad offers a philosophy of patient long-term investing based on an unexpected source: evolutionary bi...(展开全部)

作者簡介 法蘭西斯．塔朋（Francis Tapon） 哈佛商學院工商管理碩士，高材生的他畢業後不但沒有進華爾街投資銀行工作，反而踏上歐亞大陸進行壯遊，永遠改變了自己的人生。 塔朋在2001年賣光自己的微薄財產，挑戰三千公里的阿帕拉契步道。後來又在2004年六月至十一月拜訪了東歐二十五國，回國後擔任微軟顧問，接著在2006年挑戰四千兩百公里的太平洋屋脊步道，並於2007年成為史上首位來回走完大陸分水嶺步道的人，在七個月內走了九千公里。2008至2011年期間，他拜訪了四十幾個歐洲國家，但他把重點放在東歐。2009年，他征服了白朗峰，徒步橫越西班牙兩次：第一次是從地中海穿越庇里牛斯山到大西洋，第二次走的則是聖雅各之路。2013至2018年，他行遍非洲五十四國，征服了其中五十國的最高峰，五年內從未離開非洲大陸。如今他已經背著背包走了兩萬多公里，去過一百二...(展开全部)