I WAS THE FITTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM.AND I WAS DYING.At 52, top-ranked tennis pro Mark Kaplan had a heart attack on the court. He was the picture of health. Or so he thought.In 1989, Arthur Ashe handed him a trophy at the US Open for Division 1 college player of the year. Neither of them knew they shared the same genetic disease. Arthur had a heart attack at 36 on a tennis court. He died at 49. Mark had a heart attack at 52 on a tennis court. He survived. His 16-yea...

J. L. Austin is famous for writing as if he thought it a condition, on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances. A durable consensus formed after Austin's death that his pursuit of epistemology faithful to 'ordinary language' was fundamentally misguided. While critics saw his methods as resulting from a failure properly to understand the nature of the epistemologist's project, Mark Kaplan argues that th...

經典小說與不朽作者的綻放歷程卡繆的小說《異鄉人》自一九四二年在法國出版以來，已被翻譯為六十種語言，光法語版就售出超過千萬冊。如果二十世紀曾產生一部可說無所不在的小說，它就該是《異鄉人》了。一位小說新手的二十來歲年輕人怎麼能寫成這部傑作，而且在出版逾七十年後仍然對讀者深具吸引力？艾莉絲．卡普蘭透過《尋找異鄉人》講述了這個故事：她揭示了卡繆的成就其實比最熱切的讀者所知的更令人欽佩，更不可思議。卡繆在出版《異鄉人》而被法國文化圈「接納」之前，他只是一個在殖民地阿爾及利亞出生的，對哲學、文學、戲劇有興趣的年輕人而已，與巴黎文化圈一點關係都沒有。他出身貧困勞工階層，父親在他一歲時被徵召上戰場過世，母親是文盲，卡繆的中學和大學都是透過老師支持、獎學金和半工半讀才完成。他從阿爾及利亞大學畢業後，在當地報紙工作，同時參與劇團從事社會運動。...

What if parenthood wasn't seen as a professional pause-but as a leadership accelerator?The Parenthood Advantage challenges long-standing workplace assumptions, revealing how becoming a parent sharpens the very skills modern companies need most: resilience, empathy, focus, crisis management, and a long-view perspective.Through powerful stories, real-world research, and actionable insights, this book invites leaders to reimagine working parents not as a liability-but...

In today's increasingly diverse, global, interconnected business world, diversity and inclusion is no longer just the right thing to do, it is a core leadership competency and central to the success of business. Working effectively across differences such as gender, culture, generational, race, and sexual orientation not only leads to a more productive, innovative corporate culture, but also to a better engagement with customers and clients. The Inclusion Dividend provides a framework to t...

One of the biggest challenges for organizations over the past forty years has been integrating inclusiveness into practical day-to-day leadership. In the authors’ first book, The Inclusion Dividend, they made the case for inclusive leadership as a measurable asset to an organization; it shows up in the bottom line and in other measurable results. In SET for Inclusion, Donovan and Kaplan take that one step further by guiding leaders through the application of a framework to lead inclusively...

The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking a historical perspective to explain their causes and consequences allows one to better understand trends and their long-term significance. The present book takes such perspective, focusing on t...

When the first edition of Clinical studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis was published in 2000, it was hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research. It is now relied on as a model for the integration of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It won the NAAP's Gradiva Award for Best Book of the Year 2000 (Science Category) and Mark Solms received the International Psychiatrist Award 2001 at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting. The authors have added a glossary of key ...

Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology-or, as it is now known, biological anthropology-from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuses today on human variation and huma...

MONSTERS DO UGLY THINGS (But... Monsters do pretty things, too.) is a fun way to look at appropriate social skills. For ages 4 to 400. It is 36 pictures about all things monstrous. This book contains over 100 monsters doing ugly things that people shouldn't do and pretty things that people should do (they just do them in a "monstery" way). Whether you're young, or just young at heart, this book is guaranteed to make you smile. It may even make you laugh out loud!

Rose Kaplan and her sidekick Ida are at it again. It's the holiday of Purim, and almost everyone at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors is in costume for the Purim play. All except one, who will instead have to be fitted for a shroud. Once again, "Mrs. K" and Ida are called upon to solve the puzzle of a mysterious death at the Home. Described by Chanticleer Book Reviews as "at times more Lucy and Ethel than Holmes and Watson, with a soupcon of Miss Jane Marple," these geri...

Combining the classic charms of Agatha Christie with the delightful humor of M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin novels, Mark Reutlinger's Mrs. Kaplan mystery series returns as a notorious crank meets an untimely fate. Yom Kippur is a day of reflection and soul searching. But at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors, Vera Gold misses this opportunity to atone for her many sins when she up and dies. Indeed, Vera was such a pain in the tuchis to all those around her that when her sis...