Knowledge and expertise are highly valued in today’s business world. These values are introduced at an early age by our education system, and at work, we are assessed based on what we know—on having the answers and solutions. Our need for certainty, to know what’s going on, to have all the answers, exerts strong pressure in our lives. This important book offers an alternative, ...(展开全部)

Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he survived, and along the way he developed a fresh approach to transforming uncertai...(展开全部)

We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of hist ory—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek. These men and women we...(展开全部)

We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of hist ory—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek. These men and women we...(展开全部)

美国当代分析哲学家，以研究政治哲学、伦理学、认识论和心的哲学而著称。著有《利他主义的可能性》、《人的问题》、《它究竟意味着什么——一篇很短的哲学导论》、《平等与不公》、《他人的心灵：1969—1994年批评文集》以及《理性的权威》。

Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science. It is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering perhaps the only viable alternative to positivism and post positivism. This fourth edition contains a new fo...(展开全部)

How can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? Are you more likely to work in a kitchen if your last name is Baker? Ever since the dawn of human civilization, we have been trying to make predictions about what the world has in store for us. For just as long, we have been getting it wrong. In How to Expec...(展开全部)

The Victorian novel developed unique forms of reasoning under uncertainty-of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of partial knowledge and unclear outcome. George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and later Joseph Conrad drew on science, mathematics, philosophy, and the law to articulate a phenomenology of uncertainty against emergent models of predic...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and ...(展开全部)

约翰·肯尼思·加尔布雷思（John Kenneth Galbraith），哈佛大学保罗·M.沃伯格经济学名誉教授。他担任过美国驻印度大使，美国战略轰炸调查委员会主席、美国经济安全政策办公室主任、美国经济学会会长和许多政治职务，如美国人民争取民主行动组织的主席。在20世纪下半叶的前40年里，他笔耕不辍，撰写了三十多部著作，可谓是著作等身。包括《经济学与公共目标》、《价格控制理论》、《经济学和辩论艺术》、《1929年大萧条》、《丰裕社会》、《新工业国》、《不确定的年代》等。