Why don't kids learn? Why can't students do higher order thinking? Why do educators have endless staff meetings with few results? How can parents and teachers communicate better? The pressure upon educators to teach more, to a wider range and number of students, with decreasing resources and supports makes it urgent to find tools to answer such questions. The Art of Focused Con...(展开全部)

Communication within many organisations has been reduced to e-mail, electronic file transfer, and hasty sound bytes at hurried meetings. More and more, people appear to have forgotten the value of wisdom gained by ordinary conversations. This book convincingly restores this most human of attributes to prime place within businesses and organisations, and demonstrates what can be...(展开全部)

Communication within many organisations has been reduced to e-mail, electronic file transfer, and hasty sound bytes at hurried meetings. More and more, people appear to have forgotten the value of wisdom gained by ordinary conversations. This book convincingly restores this most human of attributes to prime place within businesses and organisations, and demonstrates what can be...(展开全部)

The ability to engage and entertain your companions always stands you in good stead--but many people feel nervous with strangers or fear that they lack the skills to put others at ease. Fortunately, Her Ladyship is on hand to help you become a conversationalist par excellence! Embracing all sorts of situations from formal parties and business receptions to chance encounters and...(展开全部)

The ability to engage and entertain your companions always stands you in good stead--but many people feel nervous with strangers or fear that they lack the skills to put others at ease. Fortunately, Her Ladyship is on hand to help you become a conversationalist par excellence! Embracing all sorts of situations from formal parties and business receptions to chance encounters and...(展开全部)

#1 European bestseller: the indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly Have you ever... · Spent too long on a powerpoint presentation? · Lost sight of what makes you happy? · Failed to reach a long-term goal? · Become infuriated by queuing, tax or parking tickets? · Broken a promise you knew you'd keep? Si...(展开全部)

#1 European bestseller: the indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly Have you ever... · Spent too long on a powerpoint presentation? · Lost sight of what makes you happy? · Failed to reach a long-term goal? · Become infuriated by queuing, tax or parking tickets? · Broken a promise you knew you'd keep? Si...(展开全部)

马克·盖勒（Mark Galer），墨尔本皇家理工大学摄影专业主任，曾经做过商业摄影师、自由摄影师， 长期担任 Adobe 公司的软件测试员，是公认的 Photoshop 培训专家。在拍摄、后期调整和输出方面， 有良好的工作流程和建议，曾撰写过十余本畅销摄影教材。

马克·盖勒（Mark Galer），墨尔本皇家理工大学摄影专业主任，曾经做过商业摄影师、自由摄影师， 长期担任 Adobe 公司的软件测试员，是公认的 Photoshop 培训专家。在拍摄、后期调整和输出方面， 有良好的工作流程和建议，曾撰写过十余本畅销摄影教材。

In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them to improve our lives and our work. Subjects range from the grueling practice schedule of the Beatles and the relentles...(展开全部)