An entertaining and amazingly informative guide to the realities of slavery in ancient Rome, with an introduction by Mary Beard At last, a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx offers practical advice, showing where and how to buy slaves and how to get the best out of them. He explains how to tell good slaves from bad...(展开全部)

无论是看牙医时的焦虑、堵车时的愤怒，还是痛苦分手后的沮丧，我们的生活都充满了让我们陷入困境的情况。但尽管我们的情绪可能很难控制，但它们也是一种超能力。当它们以正确的方式在正确的时间被激活时，它们就像免疫系统一样发挥作用，提醒我们注意周围环境，告诉我们如何应对情况，并帮助我们做出正确的选择。 但是，我们如何才能让情绪为我们服务而不是与我们作对呢？知名心理学家 Ethan Kross 博士将他的科学生涯奉献给了这个问题的解答。在《转变》一书中，他打破了常见的迷思——例如，逃避是有害的，或者我们应该始终努力活在当下——并提供了一个新的框架来转变我们的情绪，这样它们就不会控制我们的生活。 《转变》将开创性的研究与人们努力管理情绪并取得成功的引人入胜的故事交织在一起——从一位母亲在飞行途中因恐惧而做出一时冲动的决定，挽救了女儿的生命，到一位携带核密码的海豹突击...(展开全部)

Funny, irreverent, and fast - paced, "The Peon Book" is a breath of fresh air and a strong dose of reality that managers may or may not want to swallow. It promotes the crucial viewpoint that is often overlooked by business books: that of the average worker, here called "the Peon."

在线阅读本书 Book Description Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers and by psychology's fascination with the origin of disease, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our stre...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers and by psychology's fascination with the origin of disease, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our stre...(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)