The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough tim...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world—from o...(展开全部)

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

阿兰·德波顿1969年生于瑞士，12岁时全家人移居伦敦。18岁入剑桥大学。他徜徉于文学、艺术、美学、哲学、心理分析之间，上下古今求索，从中邂逅知音，产生共鸣，在跨越千年的著作家那里欣然找到先得我心之感，逐步接近了自己的目标。大学只不过提供他一个读书的氛围；而读书只是帮他找到自己独特的创作模式。所以，他不愿把他的写作归入任何一类：小说、历史、哲学……最多能称之为“随笔”，以个人的声音谈人生的重大题材。 德波顿在各种报刊杂志发表的文章很多，23岁开始出版第一部作品。但他写小说力求打破讲故事和表现情景的传统模式，希望探索的是情景背后的所以然，要弄明白各种人际关系后面的动力是什么。他最喜爱的、能引起共鸣的作家之一是普鲁斯特。他的第四部著作：《拥抱逝水年华》是从文学通向哲学的桥梁，这本书使他名声大噪。由此引出下一部：《哲学的慰籍》。如果说他的小说是寓哲学探索于...(展开全部)

Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother - from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back - this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of Thoreau's travels, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as literature and philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, f...(展开全部)

Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother - from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back - this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of Thoreau's travels, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as literature and philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, f...(展开全部)

In this beautiful follow-up to 2012's hit, Our Garden Birds, street artist Matt Sewell offers more watercolours and quirky descriptions of British songbirds. In Matt's world, the peewit sings the blues, and the bittern fills his neck 'like a tweed pair of bellows'. Distinctive and enchanting, with a songbird for each week of the year, this delightful gift book will appeal to bi...(展开全部)

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising...(展开全部)

At the core of this popular guide is "the program" — a 13-week walk/run plan designed to turn anyone into a runner, without injury. Originally developed by sports medicine physicians and refined through three years of clinics and responses from runners, it explains precisely how the beginner should train every day for the first 13 weeks. Every part of the process is covered, fr...(展开全部)

In this beautiful, collectible new volume, street artist Matt Sewell offers his own unique take on 52 of our favourite British garden birds. Since its first appearance in July 2009, Matt's 'Bird of the Week' feature for the Caught by the River website has quickly become a cult hit. His pop-art watercolours are distinctive and enchanting, as are his innovative descriptions, whi...(展开全部)