Unless you are working at a very advanced level, this is the only SQL book you will ever need. The authors have taken the mystery out of complex queries and explained principles and techniques with such clarity that a "Mere Mortal" will indeed be empowered to perform the superhuman. Do not walk past this book! --Graham Mandeno, Database Consultant SQL Queries for Mere Mortals ...(展开全部)

The #1 Easy, Common-Sense Guide to SQL Queries—Updated with More Advanced Techniques and Solutions Foreword by Keith W. Hare, Vice Chair, USA SQL Standards Committee SQL Queries for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective queries with the latest SQL standards and database applications. Now, author John L. Viescas has upda...(展开全部)

奥利弗·伯克曼（Oliver Burkeman），曾是一名“生产力极客”，他长期为《卫报》每周心理学专栏撰写文章，专注于讨论效率、生产力与生活的关系，其文章受无数忠实读者追捧。他也为《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《心理学》等媒体撰稿，并著有多本畅销书。 他花了数年时间试图优化自己的时间管理方法，但真正征服时间的那一天并没有到来，他反而变得更加焦虑。 他意识到：想要优化时间的所有努力都是徒劳的，越想要征服时间，越觉得挫败、有压力和空虚。相反，放弃掌控时间的执念，接纳自身的有限，更能为我们的人生增加空间。 如今，他把自己的经验和感悟写成了这本“反时间管理”的书，希望能帮更多的人找回真正想要的人生。

一本改变人生的书：如果你试着放下所有事，专注于真正重要的事情，会怎么样？《四千周》摒弃了现代人对“完成所有事”的徒劳痴迷，向读者介绍了一些构建有意义人生的工具，即拥抱而不是否认自身的局限性。奥利弗·伯克曼借鉴古今哲学家、心理学家和精神导师的洞见，着手重新调整我们与时间的关系，并以此将我们从时间的束缚中解放出来。拥抱你的极限。改变你的人生。探索如何在2025年让你的四千周变得有意义。 A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything d...(展开全部)

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and eff...(展开全部)

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawn...(展开全部)

In 1943 Great Britain, when hope and the moral fabric of society were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. Over half a century after the original lectures, the topic retains it urgency. Expanded into book form, Mere Christianity never flinches as it sets...(展开全部)

'This work will be the definitive Vernant textbooks for students and scholars alike in the English-speaking world. It represents an extraordinarily broad range of Vernant's contributions over the years. Froma Zeitlin is in my view America's foremost expert on the work of Vernant, and her synthetic sense of and for this work is reflected in her introduction and deployment of the...(展开全部)

A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life―a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we’d like to be―from the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philos...(展开全部)