One hundred years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind eight insights that are foundations of Montessori edu...(展开全部)

Turn your home into a Montessori home—and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent. It’s time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery. With hundreds of prac...(展开全部)

Turn your home into a Montessori home—and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent. It’s time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery. With hundreds of prac...(展开全部)

What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive exploration of the first thre...(展开全部)

What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in its...(展开全部)

What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in its...(展开全部)

这本书给人们展示了神秘的 Jony Ive 的一些不为人知的故事。 1：Jony Ive 算是子承父业：父亲 Mike Ive 是一个银匠，他帮助英国的学校制定了强制性的设计课程，这些课程最终让很多的英国设计师受益，其中包括 Jony Ive。 2：一位大学教授会议称，在 Jony Ive 还是一个在校学生的时候，他就尝试设计手机和钟表作品。 3：在学校毕业出来，他的第一个项目是帮助一个客户设计厕所，最后他失败了。在 1989 年，他加入了一个初创公司 Tangerine，要求为一个客户设计厕所，最后的设计稿被客户否决了，原因是客户觉得要做出来太贵了。 4：在 Steve Jobs 重返苹果之前，Jony Ive 差一点就离开，当时是他的新上司 Jon Rubinstein 劝他留了下来。 5：Jony Ive 是苹果公司内推动信奉白色产品的人，据前...(展开全部)

这本书给人们展示了神秘的 Jony Ive 的一些不为人知的故事。 1：Jony Ive 算是子承父业：父亲 Mike Ive 是一个银匠，他帮助英国的学校制定了强制性的设计课程，这些课程最终让很多的英国设计师受益，其中包括 Jony Ive。 2：一位大学教授会议称，在 Jony Ive 还是一个在校学生的时候，他就尝试设计手机和钟表作品。 3：在学校毕业出来，他的第一个项目是帮助一个客户设计厕所，最后他失败了。在 1989 年，他加入了一个初创公司 Tangerine，要求为一个客户设计厕所，最后的设计稿被客户否决了，原因是客户觉得要做出来太贵了。 4：在 Steve Jobs 重返苹果之前，Jony Ive 差一点就离开，当时是他的新上司 Jon Rubinstein 劝他留了下来。 5：Jony Ive 是苹果公司内推动信奉白色产品的人，据前...(展开全部)

"Physics for Future Presidents" gives the reader the science behind the headlines - the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hypertechnical times. As citizens of the world today, we need to know - truly understand, not just rely on television's experts - if Iran's nascent nucl...(展开全部)

The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science-fiction genres, and her creation has become part of our everyday culture, from cartoons to Hallowe'en costumes. Even the name 'Frankenstein' has become a by-word for evil scientis...(展开全部)