The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question: Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation’s president—will inevitably rise to his or her...(展开全部)

人类大脑本应如此精妙绝伦、进化高度发达，却又如此混乱、易错且缺乏条理。在《傻傻的大脑》一书中，神经科学家迪恩·伯内特以独特的视角赞颂了人类大脑的种种缺陷，以及这些“怪癖”对我们日常生活的影响。本书研究精深，文笔生动有趣，适合所有曾疑惑大脑为何总是“破坏”自己生活、以及它究竟在做什么的人阅读。 For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all thei...(展开全部)

Highlights the pitfalls of data analysis and emphasizes the importance of using the appropriate metrics before making key decisions.Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it.The author, an expert in envir...(展开全部)

Technology has made us healthier and wealthier, but we aren't necessarily happier in our zealously engineered surroundings. Edward Tenner is a connoisseur of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended, ironic consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed twentieth cent...(展开全部)

Technology has made us healthier and wealthier, but we aren't necessarily happier in our zealously engineered surroundings. Edward Tenner is a connoisseur of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended, ironic consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed twentieth cent...(展开全部)

The principles you live by today create the world you live in: if you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. In the life-changing tradition of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Power Principle teaches the core principles that dramatically affect our careers and our lives. Dr. Blaine Lee, an extraordinary teacher, shows how principle-centered...(展开全部)

理查德·洛夫 Richard Louv，知名儿童权益宣导人、资深记者、畅销作家，长期关注并投身于自然、家庭和社区领域的事务，著有八本相关领域的作品。他之前的著作《林间最后的小孩：拯救自然缺失症儿童》已被翻译成十种语言，在十四个国家出版。洛夫是儿童与自然组织的创立者和名誉主席，2008年被美国环保 组织奥杜邦学会授予奥杜邦奖章。

The principles you live by today create the world you live in: if you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. In the life-changing tradition of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Power Principle teaches the core principles that dramatically affect our careers and our lives. Dr. Blaine Lee, an extraordinary teacher, shows how principle-centered...(展开全部)

If CEOS, consultants, top managers, and other financial wizards are so smart, how come they screw up so badly? Why is there no correlation whatsoever between a business school education and success in business? Why might you be better off studying something as irrelevant as-philosophy? In The Management Myth, Stewart offers: An insightful romp through the entire history of thin...(展开全部)