As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrator retells, as best as he can, what the young man supposedly told him as they sat under a tree. He recounts how the young man esca...(展开全部)

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

Forty common misbeliefs that can lead to depression, anxiety and guilt are debunked by two psychologists and a psychiatrist. Helps readers stop making the same "dumb mistakes " This book explodes some of the most destructive myths in western culture -- and gives an "antidote" to each toxic idea. Another work by world-renowned psychologist Arnold Lazarus.

Psychotherapist Terrence Real offers an important and compelling look at the silent epidemic of depression among men and shows, with compassion and clarity, what can be done to break this vicious cycle.

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt's extraordinary bestseller, Angela's Ashes, Fintan O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, continues the narrative of modern Ireland into our own time. O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government--in despair, because all the young people were leaving--opened the country t...(展开全部)

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt's extraordinary bestseller, Angela's Ashes, Fintan O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, continues the narrative of modern Ireland into our own time. O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government--in despair, because all the young people were leaving--opened the country t...(展开全部)

Where does our mathematical ability come from? Our prehistoric ancestors' brains were essentially the same as ours, so they must have had the same underlying ability. What purpose could it serve in 50,000 BC? And what exactly goes on in our brains when we multiply 15 by 36 or prove Fermat's Last Theorem? The answer, according to Keith Devlin, is closely related to the evolution...(展开全部)

In this crowning achievement, one of the greatest minds in management theory reveals how to succeed and wield power in the real world. Over decades of consulting with corporations and teaching MBA students the nuances of organizational power, Jeffrey Pfeffer has watched numerous people suffer career reversals even as others prevail despite the odds. Our most common mistake is n...(展开全部)