【加拿大】尼尔·帕斯理查 尼尔曾是一位朝九晚五的上班族，他跟全世界任何一个写字楼里的普通白领一样，每天面临着巨大的工作压力和生活压力。经历了两次婚姻破灭和最好的朋友跳楼自杀后，绝望至极的尼尔决定改变自己，重新认识生活，发现生活之美。 于是，他创立了全球第一个记录美好生活的个人网站：生活中1000个美妙时刻（http://www.1000awesomethings.com），这个博客在短短一段时间内形成一股热潮，迅速席卷欧美国家，并获得了被誉为互联网奥斯卡之称的威比奖（The Webby Awards）最佳博客奖，至今已有5200万人点击浏览，每天有50000新人加入。 随着博客的成长和人气的积累，尼尔的影响力越来越大，他提出的全新生活理念“生命中最美好的事都是免费的”，从欧美波及全球，引发了全世界80多个国家数亿人的口碑传播，大学生、都市白领、学校...(展开全部)

From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be extravagant? In this book, Emrys Westacott...(展开全部)

梅尔是商业突破思维学派和思想企业家学派的创始人，他帮助企业家把他们的企业走向世界，打造自己想要的生活方式。他是我们这个时代最受欢迎的企业家精神导师和战略思想家。与许多其他被称为“商业教练”的人不同，梅尔经历了他执教的一切，并继续这样做。梅尔已经为自己和他的客户建立了许多市值数百万美元的企业。作为《企业家之道》的作者:现代百万富翁追求的更多利润、粉丝和自由企业家的途径，是梅尔的策略帮助他建立了成千上万的企业，并为他的客户带来了数亿美元的收入，这些客户的范围从大公司到创业公司和小型家族企业。 梅尔是一位真正相信企业家生活方式的人，他说，这种“新前沿”是一种将社会从简单的现有生活转变为更大、更大胆、更独立的模式。 梅尔帮助业主和企业家建立有意义的业务，这样他们就可以获得更多的利润、粉丝和自由。他的原则使客户成为狂热的粉丝，使你的生活充满了成就感，这些都是因...(展开全部)

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of ...(展开全部)

Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions -- both big and small -- have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and...(展开全部)

With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights.

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock , a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more. Whether we’re buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, ap...(展开全部)

..". a rewarding book." --Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes and the infinite reaches of galactic space, this powerful novel offers a vivid view of the culture and values of the Soviet Union's Central Asian peoples.

In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern conveniences—washing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cotton—seemed at...(展开全部)

Review 'The best account ever published of the economics, politics and adrenalin of these amazing firms. It shows why hedge funds dominate the world of finance and why the politicians who rail against them end up making them more powerful' Anatole Kaletsky 'A warts-and-all history of hedge funds...a splendid account of the ups and downs of an industry in which few of the twenty...(展开全部)