Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. When faced with personal ineffectiveness or lagging organizational performance, most of us instinctively look for quick-fix behavioral band-aids, not recognizing the underlying mindset at the heart of our most persistent challenges. Through true stories and si...(展开全部)

Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. When faced with personal ineffectiveness or lagging organizational performance, most of us instinctively look for quick-fix behavioral band-aids, not recognizing the underlying mindset at the heart of our most persistent challenges. Through true stories and si...(展开全部)

For centuries, women’s self-portraiture was a highly overlooked genre. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Seeing Ourselves finally gives this richly diverse range of artists and portraits, spanning centuries, the critical analysis they deserve. In sixteenth-century Italy, Sofonisba Anguissola paints one of the longest series of self-p...(展开全部)

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 pe...(展开全部)

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 pe...(展开全部)

卡罗尔·德韦克博士是人格心理学、社会心理学和发展心理学领域内公认的杰出学者之一。她曾任哥伦比亚大学威廉·兰斯福德心理学教授，现任斯坦福大学路易斯和弗吉尼亚·伊顿心理学教授，也是美国艺术与科学院院士。她的著作《自我理论：它们如何影响动机、人格与发展》（Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development）被世界教育联谊会（World Education Fellowship）选为年度好书。她经常为《纽约客》《时代周刊》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》和《波士顿环球报》撰写文章，也曾登上美国全国广播公司的《今天》和美国广播公司的《20/20》等新闻节目。

Mindset is one of those rare books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way. A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimi...(展开全部)

卡罗尔·德韦克博士是人格心理学、社会心理学和发展心理学领域内公认的杰出学者之一。她曾任哥伦比亚大学威廉·兰斯福德心理学教授，现任斯坦福大学路易斯和弗吉尼亚·伊顿心理学教授，也是美国艺术与科学院院士。她的著作《自我理论：它们如何影响动机、人格与发展》（Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development）被世界教育联谊会（World Education Fellowship）选为年度好书。她经常为《纽约客》《时代周刊》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》和《波士顿环球报》撰写文章，也曾登上美国全国广播公司的《今天》和美国广播公司的《20/20》等新闻节目。

The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr, whose theories of uncertainty threatened the order Einstein believed was essent...(展开全部)