An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life. Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of...(展开全部)

The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human. Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can—only better? Complex algorithms are choosing our music, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more d...(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)

A modern classic, revised and expanded: How the age-old art of storytelling can transform the way we communicate—and the way we do business. The new material for this revised edition offers an expanded case study of storytelling in action that focuses on one of Simmons's success stories. Over one hundred stories drawn from the front lines of business and government, as ...(展开全部)

Reading the book, I had no trouble understanding how negative visualization could be an effective antidote against "hedonic adaptation." By imagining ourselves to be homeless, for instance, we can reset our desire for a more luxurious home and once again appreciate the roof over our head that we started taking for granted shortly after moving in.

Want to make a bad year better or turn a good year into a blockbuster? Stop leaking profits and discover the untapped gold mine that exists in your products. The Art of Pricing is the first practical, easy-to-understand guide to solving one of the most important dilemmas in business: how to use price to uncover a product’s hidden profits and find new opportunities for growth....(展开全部)

雷·布雷德伯里（Ray Bradbury，1920-2012） 美国科幻小说家、散文家、剧作家、编剧、诗人。代表作有《黑色嘉年华》《火星编年史》《华氏 451》《图案人》《蒲公英酒》等。其中《华氏 451》被美国国会图书馆选入“二十世纪最有影响力的一百本小说”，并由法国著名 导演弗朗索瓦·特吕弗拍成同名电影。 布雷德伯里非常高产，迄今已出版五百多篇（部）作品，他一生获奖无数，所荣获奖项包括“欧·亨利纪念奖”“富兰克林奖”“世界奇幻文学协会终生成就奖”“美国科幻小说作家协会大师奖”“普利策特殊贡献奖”，美国国家图书基金会颁发的“美国文学杰出贡献奖”……布雷德伯里的写作启发了无数读者，让他们勇于做梦、思考、创作。2012 年，在布雷德伯里逝世之后，美国航天总署（NASA）“好奇号”火星探测器将火星着陆点命名为“布雷德伯里”，以纪念这位伟大的科幻小说家。

Since its original publication in 1953, Zen in the Art of Archery has become one of the classic works on Eastern philosophy, the first book to delve deeply into the role of Zen in philosophy, development, and practice of Eastern martial arts. Wise, deeply personal, and frequently charming, it is the story of one man's penetration of the theory and practice of Zen Buddhism.Eugen...(展开全部)

Writing regularly is the best way to boost your skills and stay inspired—and this book of creative writing prompts is here to help you out! Spark your creativity with 501 short, simple prompts that encourage you to imagine, create, and improve. Just 5 minutes—The exercises in this daily writing prompt journal are quick and easy to do so you can always carve out a bit of writing...(展开全部)

Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation Studios—into the story meetings, the postmortems, and the “Braintrust” sessions where art is born. It is, at heart, a book about how to build and sustain a creative ...(展开全部)