The first comprehensive English-language biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer, was born into a poor family in 1904. His love poems would go on to make him a household name throughout the Spanish-speaking world and win him international acclaim. His remarkable life reads like an advent...(展开全部)

With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survi...(展开全部)

Imagine a secular corporation in which profit has spiritual overtones... where the corporate motto is "Respect the Divine and Love People," and where passion and vision have supplanted the long-term business plan... most tellingly, a corporation in which employees have a unique slogan: "What we like to do next is what people tell us we can never do." These are te tenets of a r...(展开全部)

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordi...(展开全部)

A Passion For Excellence is the single most existing, inspiring, career-transforming book ever published for people who want to get ahead. It takes you behind, the scenes in some of the most successful organizations and analyzes what makes them distinctive. Here are real people, real companies, real numbers. Here is what you need to know about the crucial elements of success: ...(展开全部)

贝尔•格里尔斯，国际顶级励志大师，演说家，全球最杰出的探险家，站在食物链顶端的男人，Discovery频道NO.1户外生存大师，他主持的节目《荒野求生》在全球160多个国家和地区播出过，他置身绝境，激发本能、突破极限的探险经历给全球32亿观众留下了深刻的印象，激励过数百万人走向成功。由于贝尔杰出的成就，英国女王伊丽莎白二世及查尔斯王子多次接见了他。 贝尔家学渊源，他的曾外高祖塞缪尔•斯迈尔斯（Samuel Smiles）是英国18世纪著名的道德家、铁路大臣，现代成功学的鼻祖，著有《品格的力量》、《金钱与人生》等书，改变了亿万人的命运，对近代以来西方社会的道德风尚产生了很大的影响。其中，《品格的力量》自1871年在英国问世以来，就在世界许多国家不断重印，在全球畅销130年而不衰，塑造了亿万人民的高贵品行，被誉为“文明素养的经典手册”、“人格修炼的《圣经...(展开全部)

贝尔•格里尔斯，国际顶级励志大师，演说家，全球最杰出的探险家，站在食物链顶端的男人，Discovery频道NO.1户外生存大师，他主持的节目《荒野求生》在全球160多个国家和地区播出过，他置身绝境，激发本能、突破极限的探险经历给全球32亿观众留下了深刻的印象，激励过数百万人走向成功。由于贝尔杰出的成就，英国女王伊丽莎白二世及查尔斯王子多次接见了他。 贝尔家学渊源，他的曾外高祖塞缪尔•斯迈尔斯（Samuel Smiles）是英国18世纪著名的道德家、铁路大臣，现代成功学的鼻祖，著有《品格的力量》、《金钱与人生》等书，改变了亿万人的命运，对近代以来西方社会的道德风尚产生了很大的影响。其中，《品格的力量》自1871年在英国问世以来，就在世界许多国家不断重印，在全球畅销130年而不衰，塑造了亿万人民的高贵品行，被誉为“文明素养的经典手册”、“人格修炼的《圣经...(展开全部)

Life in the wild teaches us invaluable lessons. Extreme situations force us to seize opportunities, face up to dangers and rely on our instincts. But living a purpose-driven, impactful life can be an even greater challenge...In "A Survival Guide for Life", Bear Grylls shares the hard-earned lessons he's learned from some of the harshest environments on earth. How do you keep go...(展开全部)