You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

You know your product is awesome—but does anybody else? Forget everything you thought you knew about positioning. Successfully connecting your product with consumers isn’t a matter of following trends, comparing yourself to the competition or trying to attract the widest customer base.

You know your product is awesome—but does anybody else? Forget everything you thought you knew about positioning. Successfully connecting your product with consumers isn’t a matter of following trends, comparing yourself to the competition or trying to attract the widest customer base.

When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that...(展开全部)

Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed to deal with the pressures and competing demands on our attention in today's fast...(展开全部)

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates— not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough re...(展开全部)

Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has...(展开全部)

在俄罗斯活跃着一批“盗采宝石者”。他们中大多数人是大学教授、航天工程师等高级知识分子。每年夏初他们悄悄前往极北地区的深山中探险找宝石。历史学教授安菲洛果夫又要出发了。他能有幸发现巨大的宝藏吗？ 克雷洛夫前往火车站给教授送行，与一位同样前来给教授送行的清纯而又神秘的女子相遇，从此结下不解之缘。他俩相互不知姓名、住址、联系方式，每次幽会结束之后才随机约定下一次见面的时间和地点。终于有一天，他们在快要见面时，不幸被为纪念十月革命一百周年举行的化装游行的人群冲散了。他们还能找到对方吗？…… 小说借助于跌宕起伏的侦探小说式的情节、离奇动人的爱情故事，以比喻超多、意象极为饱和的语言，对社会、历史、环境、人生等诸多方面进行了深刻的思考和考量，堪称代表俄罗斯当代文学水平的佳作。