Attempting to better themselves - learn new skills, break bad habits - people read books, attend seminars, take training courses. But in spite of what they sincerely believe are their best efforts, their behavior doesn't change. It's an endless source of frustration for organizations and individuals. Because people who have mastered learning are free to be creative and make big...(展开全部)

By bestselling author Ken Blanchard (whose 40 + books have sold over 18 million copies), Know Can Do! Tells the story of how a well known author learns to bridge the gap between what we all know-all the advice we've taken in from books, seminars, etc.-and how we actually use that knowledge.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and from there the subtle craft of playing the jazz repertoire is tested in front...(展开全部)

Coincides with four solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Berlin. Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Gray Room,” Alec Soth’s latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren’t about any particular place or po...(展开全部)

It is the somewhat gratifying lesson of Philip Tetlock's new book . . . that people who make prediction their business--people who appear as experts on television, get quoted in newspaper articles, advise governments and businesses, and participate in punditry roundtables--are no better than the rest of us. When they're wrong, they're rarely held accountable, and they rarely ad...(展开全部)

Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He eva...(展开全部)

菲利普•E•泰特洛克（Philip E. Tetlock），耶鲁大学心理学博士，现为宾夕法尼亚大学心理学和管理学教授，主要研究兴趣包括：决策与判断、社会压力的应对方式等。本书为其代表性著作，获2006年美国政治科学协会的罗伯特•莱恩最佳政治心理学著作奖、伍德罗•威尔逊最佳政府、政治学或国际事务著作奖以及2008年哈罗德•拉斯韦尔政治心理学杰出科学贡献奖等。 译者： 季乃礼，南开大学周恩来政府管理学院教授。出版专著《三纲六纪与社会整合》、《哈贝马斯政治思想研究》，教材《政治心理学导论》，发表论文40多篇。近年来主要从事西方政治心理学理论的梳理，以及政治心理学的本土化研究。

고도 정보화 대책으로서 인조 뇌엽(腦葉), 〈전자엽〉의 이식이 의무화된 2081년의 일본 교토. 정보청에서 일하는 관료 오노 츠레루는 정보 소자의 코드 안에서 은사이며 현재 행방불명이 된 연구자 미치오 죠이치가 남긴 암호를 발견했다. 그 ‘계시’에 이끌린 끝에 기다리고 있던 것은 한 소녀였는데….

What does it mean to lose your roots―within your culture, within your family―and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological pare...(展开全部)