Focusing' is a technique first developed 25 years ago by American psychologist and philosopher Eugene Gendlin. Hugely influential, it offers six specific steps you can take to open up your inner world of deeper feelings and intuition - and shows you how to listen to others with more empathy. Short, very accessible yet also profound, this book is even more relevant today than i...(展开全部)

'...visually stunning and mentally stimulating' - "Scientific American". 'the author of "What Painting Is" (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us 'to learn to see anything.' It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably!. "How to Use Your Eyes" is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes wi...(展开全部)

I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--really look at them--what do we see? In the tradition of John Berger's bestselli...(展开全部)

杰里米•西尔曼（Jeremy Silman）1954年出生于美国德克萨斯州，1988年成为国际象棋国际大师，曾夺得美国公开赛冠军，并曾经担任美国国家青年国际象棋队的教练。2001年，西尔曼还担任了《哈利波特与魔法石》中的国际象棋对战设计。 曾分别担任北京大学学生国际象棋协会副会长和团支书的羽阳、林诗敏、王思雨与张乃卿等4位译者均来自北大学生国象社团。该社团成立25年来，始终积极弘扬国象文化，促进国际交流，推动创建北大国象队和国象课程，在校内外推广国象运动；在社团指导教师李晓鹏的长期带领下，北大国际象棋综合发展体系已居全球大学领先地位，曾获世界棋王卡尔森盛赞。

The Book Your Children Don’t Want You to Read This revised and updated edition of How to Con Your Kid is the most useful (and sneakiest) parenting manual you’ll ever purchase. Here are hundreds of tips, techniques, and simple scams for getting your child to do exactly what you want—at mealtime, bedtime, bathtime, and beyond. You’ll learn how to: • Con your kid into eatin...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 阿兰娜·科伦（Alanna Collen），英国帝国理工学院生物学学士及硕士，伦敦大学学院演化生物学博士。阿兰娜是一位经常旅行的动物学家，也是研究蝙蝠回声定位的专家，后意外成为热带疾病的收集者。她在田野调查的过程中因细菌感染而大病一场，由此引发了她对微生物与宿主之间共生关系的研究兴趣，尤其是人类与微生物之间的关系。此外，她写过一篇关于“辨识危机”的文章，介绍一种无法分辨人脸的疾病，在学界引起很大反响，同时她也为《星期日泰晤士报》《卫报》《赫芬顿邮报》撰写专题文章。 …………………… ◎ 译者简介 钟季霖，曾于出版社担任执行编辑，后旅居澳大利亚一年，目前兼职翻译。 …………………… ◎ 审订者简介 张尚麟，分子与细胞生物博士，研究专长为演化遗传学及分子生物学。

In the tradition of The Elements of Style comes Trish Hall’s essential new work on writing well—a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. As the person in charge of the Op-Ed page for the New York Times, Hall spent years immersed in argument, passion, and trendsetting ideas—but also in tangled sentences, migraine-inducing jargon, and d...(展开全部)

In the tradition of The Elements of Style comes Trish Hall’s essential new work on writing well—a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. As the person in charge of the Op-Ed page for the New York Times, Hall spent years immersed in argument, passion, and trendsetting ideas—but also in tangled sentences, migraine-inducing jargon, and d...(展开全部)