Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is sitting in front of our noses. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... offers 100 meditations designed to make y...(展开全部)

Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is sitting in front of our noses. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... offers 100 meditations designed to make y...(展开全部)

【Book Description】 Over the past five years, Richard Carlson has shown countless families, lovers, and workers how to live in a more calm and productive manner. Now he turns his attention to men, with numerous simple strategies and life lessons that blend humor, warmth, and uncommon wisdom. Carlson invites men of all ages to enjoy the benefits of simplification and discover wha...(展开全部)

For anyone who is aching to discover classical music, this comprehensive and accessible book is the ideal teacher. Writing in the clear and highly entertaining prose that made Opera 101 the standard text in its field, Fred Plotkin -- music expert, teacher, lecturer, and famous author -- presents classical music in a way that respects both the reader and the art form. In Classic...(展开全部)

Mark Schultz 曾为DC漫画公司（DC Comics）和惊奇漫画公司（Marvel Comics）创作过大量作品，他的剧本和插图已经获得5项哈维奖、2项艾斯纳奖和1项英克波特奖，其中最著名的作品包括他的力作《恐龙快打》（Xenozoic Tales）系列漫画和《超人》（Superman）。 Illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon 插图画家，他们的客户既包括美国国家海洋与大气管理局，也包括DC漫画公司，共同创作的作品包括《替身上帝》（The Replacement God）和Smax，此外，《前十名》（Top 10）还获得2项艾斯纳奖。

At the heart of this book is a simple framework. The framework is built around seven core concepts. These core concepts and the rules underpinning them are all easy to understand and to apply, but the small details in how they are applied matter and, while a lot of it is ‘applied common sense’, they are often counterintuitive. For this reason we take time to explain the researc...(展开全部)

What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bachelors who filled up matching luxury apartments with countless pieces of fine art...(展开全部)

What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper thats ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago; they expected ...(展开全部)

There is a true fascination with all things miniature and with the skills involved in creating a miniature work of art. Speaking of such works, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss remarked that "all miniatures seem to have an intrinsic aesthetic quality." And who could fail to be beguiled by an exquisite Elizabethan miniature painting, an intricately carved Japanese netsuke, the...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their fami...(展开全部)