帕甘﹒肯尼迪（Pagan Kennedy） 《纽约时报杂志》前创新专栏作家，著有《纽约时报》推荐读物《黑色利文斯通》《巴尼斯和诺贝尔发现的挑刺手》以及其他8部作品，曾获得麻省理工学院的奈特科学新闻学者奖，在数十家报纸和杂志上发表过文章。肯尼迪现居住于马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市。

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, am...(展开全部)

Economist.com, January 22, 2008 A fascinating book Financial Times, January 24, 2008 There is no doubting the validity of the message... businesses [must] learn from these unreasonable people

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that ...(展开全部)

In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous, and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans. Simon Garfield is a master of finding delight and fascination in unlikely places and here we discover flea circuses, 1,000 tiny Hitlers, miniature crime scenes, model villages and railways, minuscule foo...(展开全部)

托德•罗斯（Todd Rose） 哈佛大学教育学研究生院“心灵、头脑和教育”项目主任、教授，个体科学实验室负责人，TED超受欢迎的演讲人。 此外，他还是“个人机会中心”的合作创始人兼主任。这是一个非营利性组织，旨在促进职场、学校和社会接纳个性原则。托德现居美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市。

BASED ON THE INCREDIBLE GRADUATION SPEECH WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared t...(展开全部)

For over twenty years, psychologist Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life. In Quirkology, he navigates the oddities of human behavior, explaining the tell-tale signs that give away a liar, the secret science behind speed-dating and personal ads, and what a person’s sense of humor reveals about the innermost workings of his or her mind—all along paying...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions–and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes–in our own lives or the groups we lead at work–why are the changes are so frequently short–lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality? ...(展开全部)