What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying...(展开全部)

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying...(展开全部)

The Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? In The Aristocracy of Tale...(展开全部)

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of m...(展开全部)

For generations, we’ve been taught there are two ways to succeed—either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path—one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs: reverse engineering. To reverse enginee...(展开全部)

For generations, we’ve been taught there are two ways to succeed—either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path—one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs: reverse engineering. To reverse enginee...(展开全部)

乔纳森·伊斯雷尔（Jonathan Israel）英国著名学者、作家、历史学教授，1972年获得牛津大学博士学位，专门研究荷兰历史、启蒙运动和欧洲犹太人历史。他关注文艺复兴到18世纪欧洲和欧洲殖民地历史，聚焦于斯宾诺莎、贝尔、狄德罗和18世纪法国唯物主义者对启蒙运动等思想的影响。他曾荣获：1986年沃尔夫森文学奖（历史类）；2001年美国历史学会里奥·格夏伊奖；2004年荷兰狮子骑士勋章；2008年荷兰皇家艺术与科学院阿尔伯特·海涅肯历史奖；2010年伦敦皇家艺术与制造商学会本杰明·富兰克林奖章；2012年阿姆斯特丹市弗兰斯·班宁·考克勋章；2015年PROSE奖（专业与学术卓越奖）；2017年科梅尼乌斯奖。他曾是英国学院以及荷兰皇家艺术与科学院的成员，于1970年至1972年在纽卡斯尔大学担任博士后研究员（Sir James Knott Resea...(展开全部)

The Dutch Golden Age, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. Jonathan Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence ...(展开全部)

The Dutch Golden Age, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. Jonathan Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence ...(展开全部)

乔纳森·伊斯雷尔（Jonathan Israel）英国著名学者、作家、历史学教授，1972年获得牛津大学博士学位，专门研究荷兰历史、启蒙运动和欧洲犹太人历史。他关注文艺复兴到18世纪欧洲和欧洲殖民地历史，聚焦于斯宾诺莎、贝尔、狄德罗和18世纪法国唯物主义者对启蒙运动等思想的影响。他曾荣获：1986年沃尔夫森文学奖（历史类）；2001年美国历史学会里奥·格夏伊奖；2004年荷兰狮子骑士勋章；2008年荷兰皇家艺术与科学院阿尔伯特·海涅肯历史奖；2010年伦敦皇家艺术与制造商学会本杰明·富兰克林奖章；2012年阿姆斯特丹市弗兰斯·班宁·考克勋章；2015年PROSE奖（专业与学术卓越奖）；2017年科梅尼乌斯奖。他曾是英国学院以及荷兰皇家艺术与科学院的成员，于1970年至1972年在纽卡斯尔大学担任博士后研究员（Sir James Knott Resea...(展开全部)