Peter Block raises our awareness of the trade-offs we've made in the name of practicality and expediency, and offers hope for a way of life in which we're motivated not by what “works” but by the things that truly matter in life—idealism, intimacy, depth and engagement.

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and conse...(展开全部)

"A charming manifesto—as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book."—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your ...(展开全部)

Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid difficult conversation every day. Based on fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project, Difficult Conversations walks you through a s...(展开全部)

In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book takes us from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations through Einstein and beyond in an inspiring celebration of human curiosity. It ends with the quest for the Higgs boson, nicknamed the ...(展开全部)

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycli...(展开全部)

Donald C. Gause 是纽约州立大学托马斯·沃森工程学院的系统科学教授。他主要从事复杂系统的设计和开发以及大型公司的改革。 Gerald M. Weinberg 是软件领域最著名的专家之一，美国计算机名人堂代表人物，Weinberg & Weinberg 顾问公司的负责人。他精力旺盛、思想活跃，从20世纪70年代开始，总共撰写了30多本书籍和数以百计的论文。在西方国家乃至全球，他拥有大量忠实的读者群，这些“追星族”阅读了温伯格的每本重要著作，甚至建设有专门的组织和网站，讨论和交流大师的重要思想。

Donald C. Gause 是纽约州立大学托马斯·沃森工程学院的系统科学教授。他主要从事复杂系统的设计和开发以及大型公司的改革。 Gerald M. Weinberg 是软件领域最著名的专家之一，美国计算机名人堂代表人物，Weinberg & Weinberg 顾问公司的负责人。他精力旺盛、思想活跃，从20世纪70年代开始，总共撰写了30多本书籍和数以百计的论文。在西方国家乃至全球，他拥有大量忠实的读者群，这些“追星族”阅读了温伯格的每本重要著作，甚至建设有专门的组织和网站，讨论和交流大师的重要思想。

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and c...(展开全部)

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in ...(展开全部)