The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of ...(展开全部)

Where and when have investigators aspired to study human culture with more trustworthy or 'objective' methods borrowed from the natural sciences? This book revisits the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages. By returning to the primary documents used in canoni...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages. But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some ...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages. But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some ...(展开全部)

This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management. Challenges the stereotypical opposition between ‘creatives’ and ‘suits’. Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden. Draws on the practical experience of individuals workin...(展开全部)

A leading German philosopher offers his most ambitious work yet on the nature of knowledge, arguing that being wrong about things defines the human condition. For millennia, philosophers have dedicated themselves to advancing understanding of the nature of truth and reality. In the process they have amassed a great deal of epistemological theory—knowledge about knowledge. But n...(展开全部)

Showing how to evaluate a trading system, from performance measurements to quality of data to managing draw-downs and describing well known trading systems, this is a step-by-step explanation of how m

▼ 作者介绍 玛丽亚•塔塔尔，哈佛大学日耳曼语言和文学、民俗和神话研究教授。 国际最早一批研究童话的学者之一。著作颇丰，代表作有《砍掉他们的头，童话与童年文化》《世界上最美的人：白雪公主与21个母女故事》。此外，她是许多民间传说和童话书的主编，编选有《经典童话诺顿注释本》《格林童话诺顿注释本》。 2005年凭借《格林童话诺顿注释本》，获轨迹奖非小说类最佳作品提名。1999年获古根海姆奖。 —————— ▼ 译者介绍 吕宇珺，从事翻译工作多年，非洲联盟委员会前主席祖马女士访华时，担任随同中英交传；自由撰稿人，曾为《环球》《看历史》等媒体撰写文章。代表译作有《毫无意义的工作》《隔间：办公室进化史》

▼ 作者介绍 玛丽亚•塔塔尔，哈佛大学日耳曼语言和文学、民俗和神话研究教授。 国际最早一批研究童话的学者之一。著作颇丰，代表作有《砍掉他们的头，童话与童年文化》《世界上最美的人：白雪公主与21个母女故事》。此外，她是许多民间传说和童话书的主编，编选有《经典童话诺顿注释本》《格林童话诺顿注释本》。 2005年凭借《格林童话诺顿注释本》，获轨迹奖非小说类最佳作品提名。1999年获古根海姆奖。 —————— ▼ 译者介绍 吕宇珺，从事翻译工作多年，非洲联盟委员会前主席祖马女士访华时，担任随同中英交传；自由撰稿人，曾为《环球》《看历史》等媒体撰写文章。代表译作有《毫无意义的工作》《隔间：办公室进化史》

Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Nursery and Household Tales". This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Through...(展开全部)