Personalist leaders, such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko or Venezuela's Nicol嫳 Maduro, are increasingly prominent players in the international landscape; their motivations and policies, however, are poorly understood. The regimes they lead are difficult to examine, mostly because of their most defining feature-an inordinate concentration of power in the hands of one single individual. Yet, personalist leaders do not rule alone, even if they do not always govern through institutional channels. How do personalist regimes really work? How do their rulers acquire and maintain personal control? How does contemporary personal rule differ from how it was practised during the Cold War? These are the key questions addressed in Personalism and Personalist Regimes, which offers a systematic examination of the logic of personalism, or personalist rule, tackling comprehensively the study of personalist leaders and personalist regimes. The book is underpinned by a theoret
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★暢銷書《真原醫》、《靜坐》作者 楊定一博士、楊元寧 總策劃‧導讀★中文版呼吸練習有聲教材，楊定一博士導聆、楊元寧監製，易學又紓壓★Amazon 網站4.5顆星好評推薦★2012年「活在當下」書獎「冥想／放鬆類」金牌★2013年「諾提勒斯」書獎銀牌一呼一吸，是維繫生命的證明，善用呼吸練習，則能療癒身‧心‧靈，讓你恢復愛的能力，找回真實的自己。人體的每個細胞都有自我療癒的能力，身體組織每天也會汰舊換新。早在西藥問世前，薩滿巫師、僧侶、祭司、部落首領就知道如何啟動人體與生俱來的能力，以預防並治療疾病。 ◎呼吸練習啟動身體自癒力，不用藥、完全無副作用。現代生活的壓力除了會導致焦慮、憂鬱、忿怒、憤世嫉俗等等負面情緒，還會促使人體早衰，引發心血管疾病、肥胖、發炎、免疫功能障礙。作者理查 P. 布朗和柏崔霞 L. 葛巴兩位醫學博士，指出了「不用藥」就能康復的另一種可能──呼吸練習。這些源自瑜伽、佛教靜坐、中國氣功、東正教靜修士修持種種傳統的技術，已經獲得科學證明，能有效緩解焦慮、失眠、創傷後壓力症候群等壓力和情緒困擾，能引發人體自我療癒能力，帶來身－心－靈健康。◎楊定一博士親身驗證確實有效，專文導讀推薦。「兩位作者將他們所開發的呼吸練習分為三大類：諧振式呼吸、阻抗式呼吸、呼吸導引，只要依照書中的方法按部就班地練習，任何人都能精熟這些技巧。接著，他們將這三大類技巧整合成一套完整的『全呼吸』，帶領讀者一一進行，我也很鼓勵讀者跟著一起練，因為這些練習都是經過大量患者驗證，能真正發揮效果的。我個人也親自驗證過這些練習，認爲這些方法簡易而有效。」──楊定一博士◎楊元寧受惠無窮，誠摯策劃、推薦。「那天，我正好犯了偏頭痛，好長一段時間什麼也做不了。然而，當我待在教室最偏遠的角落，隨著課堂上的磬聲一呼一吸，經過兩輪二十分鐘的練習後，沒想到，肩頸的緊張就消失了，而偏頭痛竟然開始消退，這讓我好驚訝，因為偏頭痛發作，往往會抽痛好幾個小時，最起碼也要折騰一整天才會消退。就是這樣，我開始探究呼吸緩解疼痛的奧祕。我相信，如果呼吸練習可以幫我消解體內的壓力，對其他人也會有用。」──楊元寧◎中文版有聲教材，楊定一博士導聆、楊元寧監製，易學又紓壓。為服務華文讀者，錄製了中文版有聲教材（作者原創英文版），教你練習簡單易學的呼吸技術，讓呼吸練習自然而然成為生活的一部份。◎跟著本書及有聲教材呼吸練習，能讓你：＊活化身
Theron Q. Dumont was the pseudonym used by William Walker Atkinson, a highly prolific author and leader of the New Thought movement. Atkinson was one of the first authors to write about the law of att
The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont.We all know that in order to accomplish a certain thing we must concentrate. It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To make a success of
