Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future. When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come. Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, so...(展开全部)

A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the s...(展开全部)

Struck by a bolt of lightning and doused in chemicals, Central City Police scientist Barry Allen was transformed into the fastest man alive. Tapping into the energy field called The Speed Force, he applies a tenacious sense of justice to protect an serve the world as The Flash! The Fastest Man Alive returns to his own monthly series as part of the DC Comics—The New 52 event wit...(展开全部)

梅琳达·弗朗奇·盖茨 (Melinda French Gates) 罕见地从一些她人生中的关键时刻中汲取灵感，从以前未曾讲述的故事中汲取灵感，为应对转变提供新的视角。 “如果没有经历各种转变，你就不会活到我这个年纪。有些转变是你欣然接受的，有些是你从未预料到的。有些是你希望的，有些是你竭尽全力争取的。” – 梅琳达·弗朗奇·盖茨 转变是我们走出熟悉的环境，进入新环境的时刻——对许多人来说，这个空间被困惑、恐惧和犹豫不决所笼罩。《第二天》陪伴读者穿越这段空间，指导他们如何充分利用结束和新开始之间的时间，以及如何在你脚下的大地发生变化时继续前进。 在这本书中，梅琳达将首次以印刷形式回顾自己人生中一些重要的转变，包括成为父母、一位亲密朋友的去世以及她离开盖茨基金会。她讲述的故事阐明了摆脱完美主义束缚、帮助朋友渡过危机、拥抱不确定性等普遍教训。 我们每个人，...(展开全部)

From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all. Day in, day out, women anticipate and manage the needs of others. In relationships, we initiate the hard conversations. At home, ...(展开全部)

In this book Hartmut Esslinger — one of the most influential designers and thinkers internationally, as well as the founder of frog design — explains how ‘strategic design’ in business and society can and must bring about positive change through innovative creativity. A key component is the strategically extended definition of design as a convergent and humanistic amalgamation of...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potentially most valuable emotion: regret. Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform...(展开全部)

Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives. Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets...(展开全部)

In the wake of recent failures in America's urban infrastructure, an emerging group of activist designers are calling on architects to rethink their relationship to the city. For them, the future of the American city lies not in modernism's large-scale master plans or new urbanism's nostalgic community planning. Instead, they favor working with the realities of urban space, fin...(展开全部)

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very exp...(展开全部)