ow available in paperback, Positive Pushing gives parents clear and balanced instruction on how to encourage children just enough to produce a happy, successful, satisfied achiever. Taylor, an experienced achievement consultant, believes that, pushed properly, children will grow into adults ready to tackle life's many challenges. Using his three-pillared approach, Taylor focuse...(展开全部)

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the Un...(展开全部)

What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know. In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules , Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really workand why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby , he shares w...(展开全部)

What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know. In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules , Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really workand why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby , he shares w...(展开全部)

Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would ...(展开全部)

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness - on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality - is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousness of men who otherwise have little in common.

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness - on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality - is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousness of men who otherwise have little in common.

當生命不再有藉口，你才有機會發現真正的出口。 一個激勵人心的故事，從一杯latte開始的學習之旅…… 榮登美國紐約時報、Amazon網路書店暢銷排行榜 改編電影版將由湯姆漢克監製、主演 曾經，他以為自己的人生再完美不過，如今卻落得一無所有。 結果，他竟然在最意想不到的星巴克咖啡店， 找回了他所錯過的美好，翻轉了他對幸福的定義…… 　　麥可．基爾家世顯赫，又貴為國際廣告公司高階主管，一切的成功宛如水到渠成。想不到，五十歲之後，他的人生完全變了樣——公司嫌他太老裁了他；偶遇的婚外情讓他突然老來得子，卻也毀了他的婚姻和家庭；更糟的是他還長了顆慢性腦瘤，病情未卜…… 　　窮途末路之際，麥可走進紐約曼哈頓區的一家星巴克，享受著僅存的小小奢侈──一杯那堤。正在招募員工的年輕黑人女店長克麗絲朵，不經意問起他是否想要找工作……麥可雖然錯愕，卻也只能像抓住救命的...(展开全部)

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks. Michael Gill had it made. He was educated, wealthy and well-connected. He had a creative and lucrative advertising job, which he loved and which he was good at, and a model family and home l...(展开全部)