YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions-and lots of stress. AND YOU WANT MORE. You want more pro...(展开全部)

What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life? In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication skills available—validation. Whether you’re looking to improve your relationship with your spouse, navigate di...(展开全部)

What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life? In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication skills available—validation. Whether you’re looking to improve your relationship with your spouse, navigate di...(展开全部)

菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

玛丽•道布森（Mary Dobson），牛津大学博士，医学史专家。牛津大学威康医学史研究部（Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine）前主任，剑桥大学科学史与科学哲学系研究员，哈佛大学哈克尼斯奖学金（Harkness Fellowship）获得者。除本书外，代表作还有《医学图文史》《牛津插图西方医学史》《现代英格兰早期死亡和疾病概略》等。

At the heart of this book is a simple framework. The framework is built around seven core concepts. These core concepts and the rules underpinning them are all easy to understand and to apply, but the small details in how they are applied matter and, while a lot of it is ‘applied common sense’, they are often counterintuitive. For this reason we take time to explain the researc...(展开全部)

At the heart of this book is a simple framework. The framework is built around seven core concepts. These core concepts and the rules underpinning them are all easy to understand and to apply, but the small details in how they are applied matter and, while a lot of it is ‘applied common sense’, they are often counterintuitive. For this reason we take time to explain the researc...(展开全部)