Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than unemployment. How can we escape the time traps that make us fee...(展开全部)

《如何掌控自己的时间和生活》告诫人们，一定要记住，这个世界上根本不存在“没时间”这回事。如果你跟很多人一样，也是因为“太忙”而没时间完成自己的工作的话，那请你一定记住，在这个世界上还有很多人，他们比你更忙，结果却完成了更多的工作。这些人并没有比你拥有更多的时间。他们只是学会了更好地利用自己的时间而已！有效地利用时间是一种人人都可以掌握的技巧，就像驾驶一样，有效利用时间，不是成为时间的奴隶，而是实现自己的人生目标。一切完全取决于是否能够成功管理自己的时间，这就是所有成功的秘诀所在。 由于在时间控制方面的卓越见解，该书所倡导的时间管理系统已经成为不少当今世界著名企业采用，如A.T.&T.、美国银行、IBM、标准石油；一些繁忙的知名人士也把本书看作是安排生活的指导，如歌星尼尔•迪亚蒙德、女权主义者、作家格劳里亚•斯坦纳姆、设计师米尔顿•格拉塞尔等；此外，...(展开全部)

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a clo...(展开全部)

莎伦·考夫曼（Sharon R. Kaufman），加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系教授，人类学、历史和社会医学系主任。考夫曼的研究兴趣包括一些相互关联的主题，如老年认同、主体性与晚年生活的意义，社会变迁与医学文化的转型，美国医院文化与晚期病人的临终，生物科技与伦理、医疗实践的关系，老年医疗保险政策与卫生保健体系改革，以及生命本身的人类学。由此可见，她的研究涉及医学人类学和老年人类学的许多核心议题。

凯茜·霍姆斯（ Cassie Holmes） 加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森管理学院教授，她的MBA学生称其为“幸福教授”。 她在哥伦比亚大学获得心理学学士学位，在斯坦福大学商学院获得博士学位。凯茜·霍姆斯凯茜·霍姆斯荣获了2017年消费者研究协会和2016年消费者心理学协会颁发的早期职业奖，以及2017年消费者杂志的最佳论文奖。 她将《时间贫困》中的方法论融入自己的MBA课程—— “将幸福的科学应用于生活设计”中，并鼓励学生们采用这些方法来优化个人生活和职业规划，这一举措取得了卓越成果，同时该课程也深受欢迎。 她有大量成果发表在核心学术期刊上，并被美国国家公共电台、《经济学人》、《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》和《波士顿环球报》广泛报道。

Before The Firm and  The Pelican Brief made him a superstar,  John Grisham wrote this riveting story of  retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a  Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom  drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the  savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers  a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small  southern ...(展开全部)

Train for Speed...Feel Great Are you looking for better race times, whether you run 5-Ks or marathons? Searching for that ultimate, exhilarating moment when you're running faster than ever before? Or do you just want to get healthy and have more fun when you run? You "can run faster, and this book will show you how. Much more than a training guide, this classic volume-- comple...(展开全部)

Stop Being A People Pleaser! Learn How To Set Boundaries And Say NO - Without Feeling Guilty! Are you fed up with people taking advantage of you? Are you tired of coworkers, friends, and family members demanding your time and expecting you to give it to them? If so, THE ART OF SAYING NO is for you. Imagine being able to turn down requests and decline invitations with confide...(展开全部)

Callout: My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. People who make pinup photographs don't care who the woman is, what tragedies or triumphs that p...(展开全部)

Over the past thirty years, the way Americans experience death has been dramatically altered. The advent of medical technology capable of sustaining life without restoring health has changed where, when, and how we die. In this revelatory study, medical anthropologist Sharon R. Kaufman examines the powerful center of those changes: the hospital, where most Americans die today. ...(展开全部)